Umbraco

Friendly CMS with an amazing community.

Actively maintained

At a glance

GitHub stars
5.3k
Last activity
2026-11-02
Latest release
release-18.3.0
2026-10-29
Commits (12 mo)
2.7k
License
MIT
Language / platform
.NET

Maintenance health: Actively maintained — Commits in the last 3 months.

Run Umbraco yourself

  • RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr1 GB$5Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)1 GB$5Deploy →
DigitalOcean1 GB$6Deploy →

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