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 36e55eb0bf.
• 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

• Active: Last commit within the past 90 days.
• Maintained: Last commit within the past 12 months.
• Slowing: Last commit 12–24 months ago.
• Stale: No commits for more than 24 months.
• Archived: The repository is archived (read-only).
• Unknown: No repository activity data: the source is not on GitHub or another forge we can query.

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.