🧹 Plex Media Cleanup Tools Compared Maintainerr vs Cleanarr vs Deleterr — June 2026 🟢 ACTIVE Maintainerr — v3.11+, frequent releases 🔴 STAGNANT Cleanarr — ~3 years, no updates, fading 🟣 RISING Deleterr — CLI-focused, actively developed Feature Comparison Feature Maintainerr Cleanarr Deleterr Media Servers Plex / Jellyfin / Emby Plex only Plex / Jellyfin *Arr Integration ✅ Sonarr + Radarr + Seerr ❌ Plex only ✅ Sonarr + Radarr + exclusion lists Rule Engine ✅ Visual AND/OR + community rules ⚠️ Simple condition sets ✅ YAML config, multi-level sort 🔴 Disk Space Trigger ❌ Rule-based only ❌ Condition-based only ✅ Threshold-based deletion "Leaving Soon" Warning ✅ Plex collection + countdown ✅ Email with postpone links ❌ No notification Respect Watch Status ✅ Tautulli + Plex history ✅ Tautulli + per-user rules ✅ Tautulli + Plex history Duplicate Detection ⚠️ Limited / WIP ✅ Finds dupes + samples ❌ No Web UI ✅ Overseerr-style (polished) ⚠️ Basic ❌ Config-file only Docker ✅ amd64 + arm64 ✅ Docker available ✅ Docker available Large Libraries ✅ Handles well ❌ Timeouts on big libs ✅ Handles well Community & Docs ✅ Active Discord + good docs ❌ Poor docs, fading ⚠️ Growing, GitHub-centric Community Verdict 🏆 Maintainerr The clear winner for most users ✅ Best all-rounder — rule engine, *arr sync, "Leaving Soon" collections ✅ Active dev, great community rules ✅ Overseerr-like UI feels familiar ⚠️ No disk-space threshold mode ⚠️ Dedup still in progress ⚰️ Cleanarr Superseded — only for legacy setups ✅ Email reminders with postpone links ✅ Duplicate + sample file finder ❌ Abandoned ~3 years ❌ Plex only, no *arr sync ❌ Struggles with large libraries ❌ Poor documentation 🆕 Deleterr Best for disk-space auto-purge ✅ Disk threshold — "delete when 90% full" ✅ Multi-level sort priority ✅ Deletes via *arrs, exclusion lists ⚠️ No web UI — YAML config only ⚠️ No "Leaving Soon" notifications ⚠️ Newer project, smaller community Which one should you use? What do you need? Auto-delete when disk is nearly full? → Deleterr Rule-based cleanup with UI + notifications? → Maintainerr Just finding duplicates? → Cleanarr 💡 Pro tip: Run Maintainerr + Deleterr together Maintainerr for rule-based lifecycle management + Deleterr for disk-space emergency purge Quick Stats Maintainerr GitHub: maintainerr/Maintainerr Docker: ghcr.io/maintainerr/maintainerr Port: 6246 Stars: 3k+ | License: MIT Last release: 2026 (active) Cleanarr GitHub: Cleanarr/Cleanarr Docker: ghcr.io/cleanarr/cleanarr Port: 8300 Stars: ~500 | License: MIT Last release: ~2022 (stale) Deleterr GitHub: rfsbraz/deleterr Docker: ghcr.io/rfsbraz/deleterr Config: YAML file Stars: 600+ | License: MIT Last release: 2026 (active) Note: None of these automatically delete based on disk space alone — except Deleterr which supports threshold triggers. For "nearly full → delete oldest unwatched" specifically, Deleterr is the closest match to what you described.