About SelfHost Alternatives

Self-hosted & open-source alternatives to the SaaS you pay for. The directory is rebuilt every night from open data.

Where the data comes from

• App list: the community-curated awesome-selfhosted-data (CC-BY-SA-3.0), upstream commit ec80eed3d3.
• Stars, issues, releases, license, activity: the GitHub API, cached and refreshed nightly.
• Docker images: the Docker Hub API and repository files (Dockerfile / compose file).

Maintenance health

• Actively maintained: Commits in the last 3 months.
• Maintained: Activity within the last 12 months.
• Slowing down: No activity for 12–24 months.
• Possibly unmaintained: No activity for 2+ years.
• Archived: The repository is archived (read-only).
• Health unknown: Source is not on GitHub, so activity is not tracked automatically.

Hardware & cost estimates

Estimated RAM comes from the app's language runtime, its category (e.g. media transcoding or machine learning need more), and whether it needs a database. We map that to the smallest suitable plan at a few VPS providers. These are starting points, not benchmarks.

Ranking

Lists are ordered by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health. Featured listings are labelled and shown separately.