Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    11k

    BunkerWeb: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services.

    TL;DR • BunkerWeb • as of August 2026

    BunkerWeb is an open-source web servers project, with 11k GitHub stars and a health score of 91/100. It committed 1847 times in the last twelve months across 11 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    11k
    GitHub stars
    91/100
    Health score
    1847
    Commits (12 mo)
    11/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-07-16
    Days since last commit 32
    Commits, last 3 months 231
    Commits, last 12 months 1847
    Months with activity 11 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-14
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Web Servers

    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

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    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 BunkerWeb means for your idea

    Contested · 52/100
    Web Servers category →

    BunkerWeb 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.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    BunkerWeb: common questions

    Is BunkerWeb still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. BunkerWeb recorded 1847 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 11 of those months and 231 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-16. Last release: 2026-08-14. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use BunkerWeb commercially?

    BunkerWeb is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Web Servers category?

    19 open-source implementations, 14 of them actively maintained, led by Caddy at 75k stars. Saturation score 52/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    BunkerWeb alternatives in Web Servers

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    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

    Actively maintained
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    BSD-2-Clause

    Pangolin

    Web Servers

    22k

    Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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