Livebook by livebook-dev

Automate code & data workflows with interactive Elixir notebooks

phoenixelixirnotebookscollaborativerealtimeliveviewmathmarkdownvisualizationchartsdistributed-computing
Verdict 76/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 1.5 years ago

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

Health score
76 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
5.8k
497 forks

About Livebook

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

Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks. It features:

Code notebooks with Markdown support and Code cells where Elixir code is evaluated on demand.

Rich code editor through CodeMirror: with support for autocompletion, inline documentation, code formatting, etc.

Interactive results via Kino: display Vega-Lite charts, tables, maps, and more.

Health score breakdown

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

activity
85
maturity
100
community
98
security
85
sustainability
53
adoption
34

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 5.8k github.com/livebook-dev/livebook
GitHub forks 497 github.com/livebook-dev/livebook

Release & maintenance

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

Project age5.3 yearssince Jan 2021
Last commit3 days agoMay 4, 2026
Releases shipped70last: 1.5 years ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers

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 →

Security advisories

1 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. Most recent: CVE-2023-35174.

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Ready to self-host Livebook?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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