The same system either way. The difference is who keeps it running, patched and backed up at three in the morning.
Same MIT licensed app. Export everything, any time.
Not features. Every feature is in the self-hosted build too.
No VPS to rent, no Docker to update, no reverse proxy or certificate to renew. You sign in and it is there.
New releases reach your account without a pull, a restart or a migration you have to watch.
The database is dumped nightly and kept off the machine that serves you. You can also export the lot yourself whenever you like.
Verification, password resets and reminders go out through a warmed sending domain, which is fiddly and dull to set up on your own box.
A person who knows the code answers. With self-hosting you get the community, which is good, but nobody is on the hook.
No cloud-only features and no crippled self-hosted build. If we ever shut the service down you get your data and a migration guide.
Everything included. Cancel whenever you like.
Would you rather run the server yourself? That is free, and it is the same application. Read the guide.