Sunshine
Remote game stream host for Moonlight with support up to 120 frames per second and 4K resolution.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 312 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2026.914.233613 (Sep 2026).
At a glance
Sunshine quick facts
- Health score
- 99/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 42,797
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2026.914.233613, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Offering low-latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. You can connect to Sunshine from any Moonlight client on a variety of devices. A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favorite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Sunshine scores 99/100, #1 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 312 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2026.914.233613, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 42,797 stars add 18.5 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 1.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
312 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2026.914.233613 released 2 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 18.5 / 20
43k 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
- 312
- Last 90 days
- 860
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , just above RomM (#2) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C++, deb, Docker |
| Latest release | v2026.914.233613 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 42,797 |
| Open issues | 117 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | LizardByte/Sunshine ↗ |
Sunshine vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Sunshine (Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine (this tool) | 99 | 43k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| RomM | 97 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Pelican Panel | 94 | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Calagopus | 92 | 860 | MIT | yesterday |
| Ownfoil | 92 | 950 | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Crafty Controller | 90 | 255 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
Sunshine: common questions
Is Sunshine still maintained?
Sunshine had 312 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2026.914.233613, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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