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Prometheus vs antares
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars, 10,969 forks, 890 open issues and last shipped yesterday. antares has 2,668 stars, 177 forks, 150 open issues and last shipped 1.1 years ago. Prometheus leads on adoption by 2,408% (66,906 vs 2,668 stars). Prometheus is written in Go under Apache-2.0; antares is written in Vue under MIT. Prometheus has attracted 16% as many forks as stars, antares 7%. Prometheus was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Prometheus | antares | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 67K | ★ 2.7K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Vue |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2025-10-14 |
| Forks | ⑂ 11K | ⑂ 177 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Prometheus if
- You weight community size — 67K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick antares if
- You want the antares feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Vue
- You evaluated both and antares fits your workflow better
About Prometheus
Prometheus Visit prometheus.io for the full documentation, examples and guides. [ ][quay] [ ][hub] Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts when specified conditions are observed. The features that distinguish Prometheus from other metrics and monitoring systems are: A multi dimensional data model (time series defined by metric name and set of key/value dimensions) PromQL, a powerful and flexible query language to…
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About antares
Antares SQL Client Antares is an SQL client based on Electron.js and Vue.js that aims to become a useful tool, especially for developers. Our target is to support as many databases as possible, and all major operating systems, including the ARM versions. At the moment this application is in development state, many features will come in future updates , and supports only MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird SQL. However, there are all the features necessary to have a pleasant database management experience, so give it a chance and send us your feedback, we would really appreciate it. We are actively…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Prometheus or antares more popular?
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars and antares has 2,668. Prometheus has the larger community by that measure.
Are Prometheus and antares free?
Both are open source. Prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0 and antares under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Prometheus and antares?
Prometheus is written in Go and antares in Vue. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Prometheus or antares?
Choose Prometheus if you want the larger community (66,906 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose antares if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.