FOSSBilling
Hosting and billing automation. Integrates with WHM, CWP, cPanel and HestiaCP. Full API and easily extensible.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 513 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 0.8.9 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Money, Budgeting & Management: QuickBooks alternatives, FreshBooks alternatives, Stripe Billing alternatives, Chargebee alternatives.
At a glance
FOSSBilling quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,735
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 0.8.9, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. It helps online service businesses automate invoicing, payments, and client communication. While it’s popular with web hosting providers, it also works well for software licensing, digital downloads, and subscription services."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
FOSSBilling scores 93/100, #13 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 513 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (0.8.9, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,735 stars add 13.0 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). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
513 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
0.8.9 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.0 / 20
1.7k 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
- 513
- Last 90 days
- 1,809
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Bigcapital (#12) and IHateMoney (#14) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | 0.8.9 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 1,735 |
| Open issues | 161 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | FOSSBilling/FOSSBilling ↗ |
FOSSBilling vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with FOSSBilling (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Lago | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Kill Bill | 95 | 5.8k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| FOSSBilling (this tool) | 93 | 1.7k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| IHateMoney | 93 | 1.4k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
FOSSBilling: common questions
Is FOSSBilling still maintained?
FOSSBilling had 513 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 0.8.9, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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