Coder vs Lowdefy

Both are self-hosted software development - ide & tools projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Coder scores 89 against Lowdefy's 77, putting it ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Lowdefy may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
CoderLowdefy
Health score 89/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 5077 2450
Commits (last 3 mo) 1578 583
Stars 17k 3k
Latest release 22 Sept 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with Go, Docker, K8S, deb Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Coder

Remote development machines on your own infrastructure.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 354 commits 2025-11: 216 commits 2025-12: 253 commits 2026-01: 228 commits 2026-02: 370 commits 2026-03: 946 commits 2026-04: 582 commits 2026-05: 550 commits 2026-06: 555 commits 2026-07: 417 commits 2026-08: 606 commits

Lowdefy

Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 57%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 22 commits 2025-11: 8 commits 2025-12: 1 commits 2026-01: 188 commits 2026-02: 325 commits 2026-03: 785 commits 2026-04: 363 commits 2026-05: 175 commits 2026-06: 44 commits 2026-07: 332 commits 2026-08: 207 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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