FreedomBox
Community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal, communications.
Active Last commit
At a glance
- salsa.debian.org stars
- 65
- Forks
- 84
- Last commit
- 2026-11-12
- Latest release
- –
- Commits (12 mo)
- –
- Releases (12 mo)
- –
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Language / platform
- Python, deb
Maintenance health: Active
Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit .
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 the salsa.debian.org API.
Run FreedomBox yourself
- RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
- Docker: not detected — install from source or packages
Estimated monthly server cost
| Provider | Plan size | ~ USD / month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| Akamai (Linode) | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| DigitalOcean | 1 GB | $6 | Deploy → |
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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