Caddy
Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS.
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Still maintained? Yes: 152 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.11.7 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Caddy quick facts
- Health score
- 100/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 78,554
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.11.7, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Caddy scores 100/100, #1 of 19 in Web Servers: 152 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.11.7, 27 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 78,554 stars add 19.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). It scores full marks on every term.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
152 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.11.7 released 27 days ago
- Stars 19.6 / 20
79k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 152
- Last 90 days
- 412
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , just above Traefik (#2) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Go, deb, Docker |
| Latest release | v2.11.7 · 27 days ago |
| Stars | 78,554 |
| Open issues | 210 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | caddyserver/caddy ↗ |
Caddy vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Caddy (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy (this tool) | 100 | 79k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Traefik | 99 | 65k | MIT | today |
| NGINX | 98 | 32k | BSD-2-Clause | yesterday |
| Nginx Proxy Manager | 98 | 35k | MIT | 10 days ago |
| Pangolin | 97 | 23k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| go-doxy | 94 | 4.2k | MIT | 3 days ago |
Caddy: common questions
Is Caddy still maintained?
Caddy had 152 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.11.7, is from 27 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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