Frigate
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI.
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Still maintained? Yes: 506 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.18.2 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Ring.
At a glance
Frigate quick facts
- Health score
- 98/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 37,072
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.18.2, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Frigate
Full rankings: Ring alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Frigate scores 98/100, #1 of 8 in Video Surveillance: 506 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.18.2, 15 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 37,072 stars add 18.3 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 1.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
506 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.18.2 released 15 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 18.3 / 20
37k 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
- 506
- Last 90 days
- 1,568
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 8 tools in Video Surveillance by health , just above motionEye (#2) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, Python, Nodejs |
| Latest release | v0.18.2 · 15 days ago |
| Stars | 37,072 |
| Open issues | 68 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | blakeblackshear/frigate ↗ |
Frigate vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Frigate (Video Surveillance), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frigate (this tool) | 98 | 37k | MIT | yesterday |
| motionEye | 95 | 4.7k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Viseron | 94 | 3.7k | MIT | yesterday |
| Zoneminder | 85 | 6k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Bluecherry | 72 | 276 | GPL-2.0 | 16 days ago |
| Strix | 64 | 925 | MIT | 2 months ago |
Frigate: common questions
What does Frigate replace?
Repoly lists Frigate as an open-source alternative to Ring. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Frigate stands against the others.
Is Frigate still maintained?
Frigate had 506 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v0.18.2, is from 15 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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