Baïkal

Lightweight CalDAV and CardDAV server based on sabre/dav.

Active Last commit · 26 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
3.4k
Last commit
2026-11-03
Latest release
0.13.0
2026-10-19
Commits (12 mo)
26
Releases (12 mo)
–
License
GPL-3.0
Language / platform
PHP

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 26 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Baïkal 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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Baïkal is an alternative to

Google CalendarMicrosoft Exchange

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