Dittofeed by dittofeed

Open-source customer engagement. Automate transactional and marketing messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, Slack, and more

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Verdict 62/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty Last release 1 months ago

Self-host Dittofeed on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
62 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
2.7k
341 forks

About Dittofeed

From the project's README at github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Dittofeed is an omni-channel customer engagement platform. Send broadcasts or create automated user journeys to message users along any channel: email, mobile push notifications, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, and more. We're an open source, dev-friendly alternative to platforms like OneSignal, Customer.io, and Segment Engage. 1 Connect user data via Segment, Reverse ETL, or the Dittofeed API 2 Create highly customizable user segments with multiple operators 3 Design messaging templates using HTML/MJML, or our low-code editor 4 Send one-off broadcasts or automated event-based journeys with an easy-to-use GUI interface 5 Integrate with major ESPs like Sendgrid and Amazon SES 6 Track and analyze me

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
43
maturity
97
community
87
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
31

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

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GitHub stars 2.7k github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed
GitHub forks 341 github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age3.6 yearssince Oct 2022
Last commit1 months agoMar 28, 2026
Releases shipped711last: 1 months ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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