Firefly III vs HyperSwitch

Both are self-hosted money, budgeting & management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Firefly III and HyperSwitch are closely matched on maintenance health (91 vs 95). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Firefly IIIHyperSwitch
Health score 91/100 95/100
Commits (11 mo) 2309 2054
Commits (last 3 mo) 607 620
Stars 25k 45k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 24 Aug 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with PHP, Docker Docker, Rust
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

Firefly III

Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks.

91/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 91% of tracked projects; popularity more than 90%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 190 commits 2025-11: 164 commits 2025-12: 141 commits 2026-01: 291 commits 2026-02: 320 commits 2026-03: 312 commits 2026-04: 165 commits 2026-05: 119 commits 2026-06: 102 commits 2026-07: 268 commits 2026-08: 237 commits

HyperSwitch

Payment switch to make payments fast, reliable and affordable. Connect with multiple payment processors and route traffic effortlessly, all with a single API integration.

95/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 96%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 193 commits 2025-11: 220 commits 2025-12: 187 commits 2026-01: 184 commits 2026-02: 158 commits 2026-03: 152 commits 2026-04: 161 commits 2026-05: 179 commits 2026-06: 202 commits 2026-07: 232 commits 2026-08: 186 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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