Docspell - Document Management System (DMS) by eikek

Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort.

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Verdict 69/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty Last release 2 days ago

Self-host Docspell - Document Management System (DMS) on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
69 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
2.2k
175 forks

About Docspell - Document Management System (DMS)

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

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Docspell is a personal document organizer. Or sometimes called a "Document Management System" (DMS). You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess . It can unify your files from scanners, emails and other sources. It is targeted for home use, i.e. families, househ

Health score breakdown

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

activity
81
maturity
100
community
83
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
29

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 2.2k github.com/eikek/docspell
GitHub forks 175 github.com/eikek/docspell

Release & maintenance

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

Project age6.8 yearssince Jul 2019
Last commit2 days agoMay 4, 2026
Releases shipped48last: 2 days 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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