Decision Workspace
certon vs acmex vs mailrs-acme
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
48
certon
experimentalv0.2.1
Automatic HTTPS/TLS certificate management via the ACME protocol
50
acmex
growingv0.8.0
AcmeX: High-performance, extensible ACME v2 (RFC 8555) client and server in Rust, supporting multiple DNS providers, storage backends, and crypto libraries.
51
mailrs-acme
experimentalv1.0.1
High-level ACME (RFC 8555 / Let's Encrypt) orchestration: account load-or-create, HTTP-01 cert provisioning, expiry monitoring, periodic renewal task. Pairs with mailrs-tls-reload for atomic certificate swap without dropping in-flight connections. Optional axum-based HTTP-01 challenge server.
Core Metrics
| certon | acmex | mailrs-acme | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 48 | 50 | 51 |
| Total Downloads | 4.9K | 771 | 35 |
| 30d Downloads | 2.4K | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Last Updated | 19d ago | 106d ago | 3d ago |
| Age | 2m | 1y | 3d |
Health Breakdown
certon
Maintenance
12
Quality
11
Community
9
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
acmex
Maintenance
12
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
mailrs-acme
Maintenance
14
Quality
16
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
13
Technical Details
| certon | acmex | mailrs-acme | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.1 | 0.8.0 | 1.0.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
| Dependencies | 33 | 39 | 12 |
| Crate Size | 204KB | 305KB | 28KB |
| Features | 3 | 19 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | 1.92 | 1.92.0 | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •mailrs-acme leads with a health score of 51/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •certon has the most downloads (4.9K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •certon, acmex are pre-1.0 — API may change.