Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    12k

    Umbrel: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.

    TL;DR • Umbrel • as of August 2026

    Umbrel is an open-source self-hosting solutions project, with 12k GitHub stars and a health score of 65/100. It committed 320 times in the last twelve months across 10 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: ⊘ Proprietary. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    12k
    GitHub stars
    65/100
    Health score
    320
    Commits (12 mo)
    10/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-07-10
    Days since last commit 38
    Commits, last 3 months 3
    Commits, last 12 months 320
    Months with activity 10 of 12
    Last release 2026-07-10
    Archived No
    Licence ⊘ Proprietary
    Category Self-hosting Solutions

    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

    ⊘ Proprietary

    Non-standard or mixed licensing. Check the repository before commercial use.

    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 Umbrel means for your idea

    Umbrel is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.

    Umbrel: common questions

    Is Umbrel still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Umbrel recorded 320 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 10 of those months and 3 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-10. Last release: 2026-07-10. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Umbrel commercially?

    Umbrel is published under ⊘ Proprietary. Non-standard or mixed licensing. Check the repository before commercial use.

    How crowded is the Self-hosting Solutions category?

    27 open-source implementations, 8 of them actively maintained, led by Umbrel at 12k stars. Saturation score 37/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.

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