EMQX vs evcc

Both are self-hosted internet of things (iot) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

EMQX and evcc are closely matched on maintenance health (96 vs 92). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
EMQXevcc
Health score 96/100 92/100
Commits (11 mo) 5869 2482
Commits (last 3 mo) 2494 952
Stars 17k 7.3k
Latest release 18 Sept 2026 27 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 MIT
Built with Docker, Erlang deb, Docker, Go
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

EMQX

Scalable MQTT broker. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in one single cluster, move and process real-time IoT data with 1M msg/s throughput at 1ms latency.

96/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

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

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

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 269 commits 2025-11: 357 commits 2025-12: 248 commits 2026-01: 438 commits 2026-02: 679 commits 2026-03: 501 commits 2026-04: 348 commits 2026-05: 535 commits 2026-06: 778 commits 2026-07: 838 commits 2026-08: 878 commits

evcc

Extensible Electric Vehicle Charge Controller and home energy management system.

92/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

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

Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 74%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 245 commits 2025-11: 157 commits 2025-12: 155 commits 2026-01: 213 commits 2026-02: 162 commits 2026-03: 180 commits 2026-04: 184 commits 2026-05: 234 commits 2026-06: 294 commits 2026-07: 333 commits 2026-08: 325 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 internet of things (iot).