Chatwoot

Customer communication platform (alternative to Intercom and Zendesk).

Actively maintainedNon-free license

At a glance

GitHub stars
38.8k
Forks
9.4k
Open issues & PRs
1.6k
Last activity
2026-11-04
Latest release
v4.19.1
2026-10-24
Commits (12 mo)
1.4k
License
⊘ Proprietary
Language / platform
Ruby, Docker, K8S

Maintenance health: Actively maintained — Commits in the last 3 months. GitHub data fetched 2026-11-04.

Run Chatwoot yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes — image chatwoot/chatwoot on Docker Hub (11290.5k pulls)

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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