What are the best open-source alternatives to WordPress.com?

The top open-source self-hostable alternatives to WordPress.com include woocommerce, go-events, Pipepost. Each can be self-hosted on standard cloud providers from a few dollars a month.

How much does it cost to self-host an open-source WordPress.com alternative?

The cheapest open-source WordPress.com alternative on this list self-hosts from $4.13/mo on real hosting providers.

Which open-source WordPress.com alternative is most actively maintained?

woocommerce ranks highest on the ossreplace health score (composite of activity, maturity, community, security, sustainability, and adoption) at 81/100.

3 open-source alternatives · Updated daily

Open-source alternatives to WordPress.com

3 self-hostable open-source projects that replace WordPress.com, ranked by computed health score with real self-hosting cost.

Deploy woocommerce on hetzner → $4.13/mo See top pick: woocommerce

OSS alternatives

$4.13

Cheapest /mo

The 3 alternatives, ranked by health

Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

woocommerce

by woocommerce

81/100

A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.

PHP

★10k

$4.13/mo

⚙2/5

go-events

by deatil

42/100

go-events is a go event and event'subscribe pkg, like wordpress hook functions

Go Apache-2.0

★8

$4.13/mo

⚙2/5

Pipepost

by MendleM

36/100

MCP server to publish to Dev.to, Ghost, Hashnode, WordPress, Medium, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon from Claude Code. SEO scoring, canonical-URL wiring, social-post generation, Unsplash covers, IndexNow.

TypeScript MIT

★1

$4.13/mo

⚙3/5

Pick your alternative

Most operators land on woocommerce (top health score in this category; cheapest VPS path is woocommerce on hetzner for $4.13/mo).

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Data refreshed daily. Pricing for WordPress.com sourced from official site.