AliasVault vs Vaultwarden

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 scores 88 against Vaultwarden's 65, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Vaultwarden may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
AliasVaultVaultwarden
Health score 88/100 65/100
Commits (11 mo) 2119 169
Commits (last 3 mo) 680 31
Stars 3.1k 68k
Latest release 16 Sept 2026 13 Sept 2026
Licence MIT GPL-3.0
Built with Docker Rust, Docker
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

Vaultwarden

Lightweight Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust.

65/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 16/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 40% of tracked projects; popularity more than 98%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 13 commits 2025-11: 16 commits 2025-12: 25 commits 2026-01: 10 commits 2026-02: 10 commits 2026-03: 20 commits 2026-04: 34 commits 2026-05: 10 commits 2026-06: 1 commits 2026-07: 18 commits 2026-08: 12 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted password managers.