Cube vs Homer
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted dashboards & startpages options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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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 Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Sampler Dashboard 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
Compare Homer with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Dashy Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Sampler Dashboard Benphelps Homepage Heimdall Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server 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 Cube Homer Category Dashboards & Startpages Dashboards & Startpages License Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0 Language Rust Vue Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 512 MB 64 MB Deployment docker, kubernetes, source docker, bare-metal GitHub stars ★ 20,572 ★ 11,537 First released 2019 2019 Replaces Looker, AtScale Heimdall
Why pick each one
Choose Cube if… Consistent metrics across tools Strong API surface Cube details Choose Homer if… Extremely lightweight Trivial to host Fast Homer details
Frequently asked questions Is Cube or Homer better? Neither is universally better. Cube has the larger community, while Homer is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Cube and Homer free and open-source? Yes. Cube is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Homer under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Cube and Homer with Docker? Cube: yes. Homer: yes.