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Open source alternatives to Mailchimp

We track 7 open-source Mailchimp alternatives, of which 3 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Keila leads on health at 93/100 with 35 commits in the last 90 days; across all 7 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0, MIT and 1 other licences.

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40k
Combined stars
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All 7 Mailchimp alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Keila

    93 GOOD

    Reliable and easy-to-use newsletter tool (alternative to Mailchimp and Sendinblue).

    ★ 2.2k · ⟳ 8 days ago · 0.30.3 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Listmonk

    90 GOOD

    High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard.

    ★ 23k · ⟳ yesterday · v6.2.0 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerGo
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Mautic

    86 GOOD

    Marketing automation software (email, social and more).

    ★ 11k · ⟳ today · 7.2.0 · GPL-3.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • phpList

    63 SLOWING

    Newsletter and email marketing with advanced management of subscribers, bounces, and plugins.

    ★ 870 · ⟳ 29 days ago · v3.6.17 · AGPL-3.0

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Dittofeed

    54 SLOWING

    Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).

    ★ 2.9k · ⟳ 6 months ago · v0.23.0 · MIT

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Sendy

    10 STALE

    Self-hosted email newsletter application that lets you send bulk emails via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) or other SMTP services.

    ⊘ Proprietary

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Mailchimp alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Mailchimp?

Keila scores highest at 93/100, with 35 commits in the last 90 days, 2.2k GitHub stars and its latest release (0.30.3) published 8 days ago. Mautic has the most raw commit activity at 2670 commits in 90 days.

Which Mailchimp alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 7 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Dittofeed (MIT). 5 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Mailchimp alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 7 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Keila, Listmonk, Dittofeed. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.