Canvas LMS vs ILIAS

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

ILIAS scores 72 against Canvas LMS's 66, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of more recent releases and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Canvas LMS may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Canvas LMS	ILIAS
Health score	66/100	72/100
Commits (11 mo)	5178	1520
Commits (last 3 mo)	0	346
Stars	6.8k	505
Latest release	none tagged	3 Sept 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	GPL-3.0
Built with	Ruby	PHP
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Canvas LMS

Learning management system (LMS) that is revolutionizing the way we educate.

66/100

Steady

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

Maintenance 39/40

Releases 13/25

Community 14/20

Momentum 0/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 72%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

ILIAS

Learning management system that can cope with anything you throw at it.

72/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 34/40

Releases 25/25

Community 5/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 23%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

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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