EspoCRM vs Group Office

Both are self-hosted customer relationship management (crm) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

EspoCRM scores 84 against Group Office's 72, putting it ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Group Office may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
EspoCRMGroup Office
Health score 84/100 72/100
Commits (11 mo) 1524 2202
Commits (last 3 mo) 502 461
Stars 3.4k 280
Latest release 8 Sept 2026 21 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with PHP PHP
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

EspoCRM

CRM with a frontend designed as a single page application, and a REST API.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 60%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 110 commits 2025-11: 53 commits 2025-12: 97 commits 2026-01: 95 commits 2026-02: 94 commits 2026-03: 164 commits 2026-04: 228 commits 2026-05: 181 commits 2026-06: 227 commits 2026-07: 168 commits 2026-08: 107 commits

Group Office

Enterprise CRM and groupware tool. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients.

72/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 3/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 91% of tracked projects; popularity more than 15%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 182 commits 2025-11: 225 commits 2025-12: 135 commits 2026-01: 248 commits 2026-02: 208 commits 2026-03: 348 commits 2026-04: 181 commits 2026-05: 214 commits 2026-06: 268 commits 2026-07: 64 commits 2026-08: 129 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 customer relationship management (crm).