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Gitea
/Replaces GitHub, GitLab⭐ 43,500 stars·Active 2d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 2d agoCon: CI/CD pipeline requires external runners
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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GitLab CE
/Replaces GitHub, GitLab Enterprise⭐ 25,100 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoCon: Very memory-heavy development stack require >4GB RAM
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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Coolify
/Replaces Heroku, Vercel, Netlify⭐ 31,200 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoCon: Operations crash risks if system disk hits limits
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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Hoppscotch
/Replaces Postman, Insomnia⭐ 62,500 stars·Active 1d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 1d agoCon: Needs extension helper proxy to bypass CORS policies
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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Plane
/Replaces Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday.com⭐ 29,800 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoCon: Setup configuration variables are relatively complex
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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GitLab Issues
/Replaces Jira, Monday.com⭐ 25,100 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoCon: Hard to use for non-technical marketing groups
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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Jenkins CE
/Replaces CircleCI, Travis CI⭐ 22,100 stars·Active 1d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 1d agoCon: Groovy pipeline scripting is slow and hard to debug
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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5.0Active
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CapRover
/Replaces Heroku, Render⭐ 12,500 stars·Active 5d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 5d agoCon: Docker Swarm is less popular than Kubernetes
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
4.5Active
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SigNoz
/Replaces Datadog, New Relic⭐ 18,400 stars·Active 2d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 2d agoCon: Clickhouse cluster overhead requires robust VPS RAM
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
4.5Active
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Highlight.io
/Replaces Sentry, LogRocket⭐ 10,300 stars·Active 2d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 2d agoCon: Demands hefty postgres space database storage limits
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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4.5Active
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Webmin
/Replaces cPanel, Plesk⭐ 8,200 stars·Active 3d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 3d agoCon: UI layout looks slightly dated out of the box
FREEDOM
5.0Open
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4.5Active
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Dokku
/Replaces Heroku, Render⭐ 26,800 stars·Active 6d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 6d agoCon: No default web GUI dashboard available out-of-the-box
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
4.0Active
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Bruno
/Replaces Postman, Insomnia⭐ 22,400 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoCon: Collaboration requires manually committing catalog to git
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
4.0Active
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Forgejo
/Replaces GitHub, Gitea⭐ 4,100 stars·Active 1d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 1d agoCon: Smaller plugin and themes ecosystem currently
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
3.0Aging
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Netdata
/Replaces Datadog, New Relic⭐ 68,100 stars·Active 1d ago·Verified May 2026
Open sourceSelf-hostableActive: 1d agoFreemiumCon: Long metrics retention spikes memory consumption
FREEDOM
3.0Partial
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5.0Active
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GlitchTip
/Replaces Sentry, Datadog⭐ 1,950 stars·Active 6d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 6d agoCon: Charting graphs are simple compared to full Sentry
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
3.0Aging
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Woodpecker CI
/Replaces CircleCI, Jenkins⭐ 4,300 stars·Active 1d ago·Verified May 2026
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostableActive: 1d agoCon: Plugin database is smaller than original Jenkins
FREEDOM
5.0Open
RELEVANCE
3.0Aging
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Drone CI
/Replaces CircleCI, Travis CI⭐ 28,200 stars·Active 5d ago·Verified May 2026
Open sourceSelf-hostableActive: 5d agoFreemiumCon: Free self-hosting tier has small concurrency limits
FREEDOM
3.0Partial
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5.0Active
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LocalStack
/Replaces AWS Cloud Services⭐ 54,100 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
Open sourceSelf-hostableActive: 0d agoFreemiumCon: Advanced AWS services locked behind paid pro tier licenses
FREEDOM
3.0Partial
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5.0Active
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n8n
/Replaces Zapier, Make.com⭐ 44,200 stars·Active 0d ago·Verified May 2026
Self-hostableActive: 0d agoFreemiumCon: Fair-code license prevents offering it commercially
FREEDOM
1.5Locked
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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