{"id":"linuxserver-jellyfin","name":"jellyfin","af_score":41.5,"security_score":52.2,"reliability_score":47.5,"what_it_does":"Jellyfin is a self-hosted media server for organizing and streaming your music, movies, and TV shows to clients over your network (and, optionally, the internet).","best_when":"You want to run your own media server and control privacy, storage, and access within your household or organization.","avoid_when":"You cannot maintain server dependencies/updates or you cannot expose the server securely (reverse proxy, TLS, auth).","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:23:55.037780+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":true,"auth_methods":["Username/password (local to server)","Session-based authentication for clients","Token-based mechanisms may be available depending on deployment/configuration"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Media-server operations can be stateful (library scans/transcoding) so naive retries may create extra load","Effective authorization and networking depend heavily on reverse-proxy/TLS configuration"],"error_quality":0.0}