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Open source customer relationship management (crm)

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategic process that organizations use to manage, analyze, and improve their interactions with customers. 9 self-hosted customer relationship management tools are listed here, ordered purely by a repository health score that Repoly recomputes nightly. Twenty leads at 99/100 with 3,469 commits in the last 90 days and 60k stars, followed by Relaticle (93) and Krayin (88). 9 of the 9 score 70 or above, 2 publish a Docker image, and the median health is 85. AGPL-3.0 is the most common licence, carried by 6 of them. Between them they stand in for Salesforce, SAP, Basecamp, HubSpot and Zoho and 5 more proprietary products.

updated Oct 2026 9 tools ★ 106k stars 2 with Docker median 85

Best for…

  • Most starred

    Twenty

    60,120 stars on GitHub, the largest community in the category.

  • Most active

    Dolibarr

    4,916 commits in the last 90 days, the fastest-moving codebase here.

  • Most permissive

    Krayin

    MIT licence with health 88/100: the strongest option if you need to embed or fork commercially.

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How the customer relationship management tools compare

Twenty edges Relaticle 99 to 93, and most of the difference is stars: 60k stars against 1.8k stars.

The most recent release is Relaticle v3.7.0, published 2 days ago. None of the measured options scores under 40. By stack, PHP (6), Go (1) and Python (1) are the most common. Krayin and Corteza are permissively licensed; Twenty, Relaticle, Dolibarr and 4 more are copyleft.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): common questions

What is the best open source customer relationship management tool?

By Repoly's GitHub health score, Twenty at 99/100 (3,469 commits in 90 days, twenty/v2.52.0 from 3 days ago). Relaticle is next at 93; Twenty's lead comes mostly from stars. The score measures maintenance, not features, so shortlist the top few and try them.

Which customer relationship management tools are the most actively developed?

Dolibarr (4,916 commits in 90 days), Twenty (3,469 commits in 90 days) and Relaticle (2,507 commits in 90 days). Commit activity is 35 of the 100 health points, the largest single term.

Which customer relationship management tools can I run in Docker?

2 of 9 publish a Docker image or Compose file, led by Twenty and Relaticle.

Which customer relationship management tools have a permissive licence?

2 of 9: Krayin (MIT), Corteza (Apache-2.0). 7 are copyleft.

Which paid products can open source customer relationship management tools replace?

Salesforce (Twenty ranks highest here), SAP (Dolibarr ranks highest here), Basecamp (Group Office ranks highest here), HubSpot (Twenty ranks highest here) and Zoho (Dolibarr ranks highest here), plus 5 more listed on the comparison pages.