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Prometheus vs miniredis
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars, 10,969 forks, 890 open issues and last shipped yesterday. miniredis has 3,635 stars, 268 forks, 6 open issues and last shipped 6 days ago. Prometheus leads on adoption by 1,741% (66,906 vs 3,635 stars). Prometheus is written in Go under Apache-2.0; miniredis is written in Go under MIT. Prometheus has attracted 16% as many forks as stars, miniredis 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 | miniredis | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 67K | ★ 3.6K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-28 |
| Forks | ⑂ 11K | ⑂ 268 |
| 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 miniredis if
- You want the miniredis feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and miniredis 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 miniredis
Miniredis Pure Go Redis test server, used in Go unittests. Sometimes you want to test code which uses Redis, without making it a full blown integration test. Miniredis implements (parts of) the Redis server, to be used in unittests. It enables a simple, cheap, in memory, Redis replacement, with a real TCP interface. Think of it as the Redis version of net/http/httptest . It saves you from using mock code, and since the redis server lives in the test process you can query for values directly, without going through the server stack. There are no dependencies on external binaries, so you can easily integrate it in…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Prometheus or miniredis more popular?
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars and miniredis has 3,635. Prometheus has the larger community by that measure.
Are Prometheus and miniredis free?
Both are open source. Prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0 and miniredis under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Prometheus and miniredis?
Prometheus is written in Go and miniredis in Go. 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 miniredis?
Choose Prometheus if you want the larger community (66,906 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose miniredis if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.