Generates lightweight, embedded honeypot triggers called canary tokens for detecting unauthorized access.
Canary Tokens is an open-source network utilities project, with 3.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 70/100. It committed 38 times in the last twelve months across 8 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: BSD-3-Clause. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-13 |
| Days since last commit | 4 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 7 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 38 |
| Months with activity | 8 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-07-22 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Category | Network Utilities |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
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.
Canary Tokens 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.
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Actively maintained. Canary Tokens recorded 38 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 8 of those months and 7 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-13. Last release: 2026-07-22. Committed within the last 45 days.
Canary Tokens is published under BSD-3-Clause. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
12 open-source implementations, 7 of them actively maintained, led by MyIP at 12k stars. Saturation score 34/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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