Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    55k

    Twenty: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    A modern CRM offering the flexibility of open source, advanced features, and a sleek design.

    TL;DR • Twenty • as of August 2026

    Twenty is an open-source customer relationship management (crm) project positioned as an alternative to CRM, with 55k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 6640 times in the last twelve months across 12 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.

    55k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    6640
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 2060
    Commits, last 12 months 6640
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-11
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
    Positioned against CRM

    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 Twenty means for your idea

    Twenty 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.

    Twenty: common questions

    Is Twenty still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Twenty recorded 6640 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 2060 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-11. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Twenty commercially?

    Twenty 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.

    Is Twenty a good CRM alternative?

    Twenty targets the same job as CRM and is actively shipping. Adoption sits at 55k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.

    How crowded is the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) category?

    7 open-source implementations, 5 of them actively maintained, led by Twenty at 55k stars. Saturation score 41/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

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    CRM with a frontend designed as a single page application, and a REST API.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    2.1k

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    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    610

    Analytical CRM with tasks management, email marketing and many more. Django CRM is built for individual use, businesses of any size or freelancers and is designed to provide easy customization and qui

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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