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20 tools

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01

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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02

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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03

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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04

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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05

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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06

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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07

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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08

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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09

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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10

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
RELEVANCE
4.5Active
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11

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
RELEVANCE
4.5Active
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12

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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13

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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14

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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15

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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16

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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17

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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18

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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19

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
RELEVANCE
5.0Active
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20

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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