Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    10k

    Akaunting: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

    TL;DR • Akaunting • as of August 2026

    Akaunting is an open-source money, budgeting & management project, with 10k GitHub stars and a health score of 84/100. It committed 384 times in the last twelve months across 11 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: BUSL-1.1. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    10k
    GitHub stars
    84/100
    Health score
    384
    Commits (12 mo)
    11/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-13
    Days since last commit 4
    Commits, last 3 months 145
    Commits, last 12 months 384
    Months with activity 11 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-10
    Archived No
    Licence BUSL-1.1
    Category Money, Budgeting & Management

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    BUSL-1.1

    Non-standard or mixed licensing. Check the repository before commercial use.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Akaunting means for your idea

    Akaunting is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    Akaunting: common questions

    Is Akaunting still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Akaunting recorded 384 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 11 of those months and 145 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-13. Last release: 2026-08-10. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Akaunting commercially?

    Akaunting is published under BUSL-1.1. Non-standard or mixed licensing. Check the repository before commercial use.

    How crowded is the Money, Budgeting & Management category?

    42 open-source implementations, 27 of them actively maintained, led by HyperSwitch at 43k stars. Saturation score 72/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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