Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    5.7k

    Kill Bill: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Subscription billing & payments platform. Have access to real-time analytics and financial reports.

    TL;DR • Kill Bill • as of August 2026

    Kill Bill is an open-source money, budgeting & management project, with 5.7k GitHub stars and a health score of 75/100. It committed 188 times in the last twelve months across 9 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: Apache-2.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    5.7k
    GitHub stars
    75/100
    Health score
    188
    Commits (12 mo)
    9/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-14
    Days since last commit 3
    Commits, last 3 months 73
    Commits, last 12 months 188
    Months with activity 9 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-12
    Archived No
    Licence Apache-2.0
    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

    Apache-2.0

    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.

    What Kill Bill means for your idea

    Kill Bill 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.

    Kill Bill: common questions

    Is Kill Bill still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Kill Bill recorded 188 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 9 of those months and 73 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2026-08-12. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Kill Bill commercially?

    Kill Bill is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    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.

    Kill Bill alternatives in Money, Budgeting & Management

    HyperSwitch

    Money, Budgeting & Management

    43k

    Payment switch to make payments fast, reliable and affordable. Connect with multiple payment processors and route traffic effortlessly, all with a single API integration.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Apache-2.0

    Actual

    Money, Budgeting & Management

    28k

    Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional automa

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    Firefly III

    Alternative to Personal finance

    24k

    Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Lago

    Alternative to Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Usage-based billing

    10k

    Metering and usage-based billing.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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