Lila

Ad-less chess server powering lichess.org, with official iOS and Android client apps.

Active Last commit · No releases in the past year · 9,596 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
19k
Last commit
2026-11-09
Latest release
v1.1.0
2017-08-31
Commits (12 mo)
9.6k
Releases (12 mo)
0
License
AGPL-3.0
Language / platform
Scala

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · No releases in the past year · 9,596 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); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

Run Lila yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

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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