AliasVault vs Bitwarden

Both are self-hosted password managers projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

AliasVault and Bitwarden are closely matched on maintenance health (88 vs 89). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
AliasVaultBitwarden
Health score 88/100 89/100
Commits (11 mo) 2119 1510
Commits (last 3 mo) 680 437
Stars 3.1k 20k
Latest release 16 Sept 2026 22 Sept 2026
Licence MIT AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Docker, C#
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

AliasVault

End-to-end encrypted password manager with a built-in email alias generator and server.

88/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 58%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 252 commits 2025-12: 200 commits 2026-01: 322 commits 2026-02: 264 commits 2026-03: 122 commits 2026-04: 147 commits 2026-05: 132 commits 2026-06: 205 commits 2026-07: 202 commits 2026-08: 273 commits

Bitwarden

Password manager with a webapp, browser extension, and mobile app.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 107 commits 2025-11: 95 commits 2025-12: 128 commits 2026-01: 109 commits 2026-02: 130 commits 2026-03: 184 commits 2026-04: 170 commits 2026-05: 150 commits 2026-06: 121 commits 2026-07: 169 commits 2026-08: 147 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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