Beszel vs Cube
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted apps from related categories
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Beszel with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE Umami PostHog CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Postiz Netron Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Grafana Loki Plausible Dashy Apache SkyWalking Dockge Jaeger Vector Matomo Kibana GoAccess cAdvisor Telegraf VictoriaMetrics Zipkin Upptime Phlare Logstash Sampler Dashboard Thanos Druid Dozzle Pinpoint APM Unleash Node Exporter Fluentd OpenSearch Rybbit Gatus Grafana Pyroscope Homer Checkmate Healthchecks HyperDX Benphelps Homepage Heimdall Beszel Hub Alertmanager Graylog ntopng Scrutiny Fluent Bit Coroot OpenTelemetry Collector Hertzbeat Statup Status WatchYourLAN NetAlertX Pulse Monitor Zabbix Graphite Speedtest Tracker Cortex Blackbox Exporter Grafana Tempo Grafana Mimir Kener Parca LibreNMS Monitoror Errbit Uptrace mtail Grafana OnCall Redis Exporter Vmstat Exporter PostgreSQL Exporter Grafana Alloy collectd Pushgateway Robusta Cstate Karma Kafka Exporter MySQL Server Exporter Kapacitor Perses Checkmk Kuberhealthy Icinga 2 PHP Server Monitor SNMP Exporter Process Exporter Munin VictoriaLogs Elasticsearch Exporter Grafana Beyla Nagios Core NGINX Prometheus Exporter Statping-ng Bugsink Smokeping Vigil Cacti Mailrise Domain Locker Proxmox VE Exporter Oncall Peekaping OpenNMS Horizon Shinken ElastAlert 2 Grafana Faro Sensu Go Percona Monitoring and Management Icinga Web 2 Kuma Mieru JSON Exporter Smokeping Prober Argus Monitor Web PHP-FPM Exporter Cloudprober Ping Exporter Monika IPMI Exporter SQL Exporter smartctl Exporter Pandora FMS Community Thruk NetXMS Apache Exporter NUT Exporter Speedtest Exporter Monit Naemon Bytebot Watch Fail2Ban Webinterface Lunalytics Observium Phoenix Panel
Compare Cube with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Dashy Apache SkyWalking Dockge Jaeger Vector Sampler Dashboard Homer Benphelps Homepage Heimdall Evidence Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server Lightdash Organizr Your Spotify Dashboard Homarr Personal Management System Walkxcode Startpage dashdot Speedtest Tracker Dashboard Smashing Lobe Startpage Dockpeek Apprise Dashboard Chronograf DashMachine Lissy93 Dashy Themes Statusnook Dash. by phntxx Flemmarr Fenrus Mafl Starbase 80 Grafonnet Dashboards Grafana Image Renderer Grafana Scenes Kiosk LXD Dashboard Homepage by tomershvueli Web-Portal Dashbrr Hiccup DMARCguard Webtop Dashboard portkey Hubleys Yacht gobookmarks Startpunkt
Feature Beszel Cube Category Monitoring & Status Dashboards & Startpages License MIT Apache-2.0 Language Go Rust Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 128 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, binary docker, kubernetes, source GitHub stars ★ 24,108 ★ 20,572 First released 2024 2019 Replaces UptimeRobot Looker, AtScale
Why pick each one
Choose Beszel if… Extremely lightweight Simple multi-host view Easy setup Beszel details Choose Cube if… Consistent metrics across tools Strong API surface Cube details
Frequently asked questions Is Beszel or Cube better? Beszel is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler easy setup. Consider Cube if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Beszel and Cube free and open-source? Yes. Beszel is licensed under MIT and Cube under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Beszel and Cube with Docker? Beszel: yes. Cube: yes.