Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    OpenZiti: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

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    TL;DR • OpenZiti • as of August 2026

    OpenZiti is an open-source miscellaneous project, with 4.3k GitHub stars and a health score of 96/100. It committed 839 times in the last twelve months across 12 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.

    4.3k
    GitHub stars
    96/100
    Health score
    839
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    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 240
    Commits, last 12 months 839
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-11
    Archived No
    Licence Apache-2.0
    Category Miscellaneous

    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 OpenZiti means for your idea

    Crowded · 81/100
    Miscellaneous category →

    OpenZiti 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.

    OpenZiti: common questions

    Is OpenZiti still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. OpenZiti recorded 839 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 240 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2026-08-11. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use OpenZiti commercially?

    OpenZiti 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 Miscellaneous category?

    76 open-source implementations, 40 of them actively maintained, led by revealjs at 72k stars. Saturation score 81/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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