DietPi
Minimal Debian OS optimized for single-board computers, which allows you to easily install and manage several services for selfhosting at home.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 262 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v10.8 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Self-hosting Solutions: Cloudron Cloud alternatives, Heroku alternatives.
At a glance
DietPi quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 6,372
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v10.8, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Feature-rich configuration tool for your device with dietpi-config ."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
DietPi scores 85/100, #4 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions: 262 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v10.8, 9 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 6,372 stars add 15.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
262 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v10.8 released 9 days ago
- Stars 15.2 / 20
6.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 262
- Last 90 days
- 888
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 28 tools in Self-hosting Solutions by health , between HomeButler (#3) and YunoHost (#5) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Shell |
| Latest release | v10.8 · 9 days ago |
| Stars | 6,372 |
| Open issues | 354 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | MichaIng/DietPi ↗ |
DietPi vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with DietPi (Self-hosting Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbrel | 96 | 12k | ⊘ Proprietary | 1 month ago |
| DietPi (this tool) | 85 | 6.4k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| xsrv | 80 | 411 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| HomelabOS | 67 | 1.3k | MIT | 2 months ago |
| OpenMediaVault | 60 | 7k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| NextCloudPi | 59 | 3k | GPL-2.0 | 2 months ago |
DietPi: common questions
Is DietPi still maintained?
DietPi had 262 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v10.8, is from 9 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.