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Introducing Passbolt by passbolt

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Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!

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Verdict 68/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty 1 open CVE Last release 27 days ago

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Health score
68 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
5.9k
382 forks

About Introducing Passbolt

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

[](LICENSE.txt) [](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) [](https://psalm.dev/)

Table of Contents Introducing Passbolt Get Started Run it on your own server, natively Available Clients & Apps Browser Extensions Mobile Apps CLI Desktop App Contributing Reporting a security issue License

Health score breakdown

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

activity
78
maturity
100
community
75
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
33

Adoption signals

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

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 5.9k github.com/passbolt/passbolt_api
GitHub forks 382 github.com/passbolt/passbolt_api

Release & maintenance

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

Project age10.2 yearssince Feb 2016
Last commit7 days agoApr 30, 2026
Releases shipped136last: 27 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 →

Security advisories

10 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. 1 currently open without a documented fix. Most recent: CVE-2025-27913.

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