Frigate vs Viseron

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

Frigate and Viseron are closely matched on maintenance health (85 vs 81). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
FrigateViseron
Health score 85/100 81/100
Commits (11 mo) 1343 1002
Commits (last 3 mo) 252 268
Stars 36k 3.6k
Latest release 12 Sept 2026 17 Sept 2026
Licence MIT MIT
Built with Docker, Python, Nodejs Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Frigate

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI.

85/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 85% of tracked projects; popularity more than 93%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 204 commits 2025-11: 123 commits 2025-12: 109 commits 2026-01: 57 commits 2026-02: 140 commits 2026-03: 222 commits 2026-04: 139 commits 2026-05: 97 commits 2026-06: 74 commits 2026-07: 92 commits 2026-08: 86 commits

Viseron

Self-hosted, local-only NVR and AI Computer Vision software. With features such as object detection, motion detection, face recognition and more, it gives you the power to keep an eye on your home, office or any other place you want to monitor.

81/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 32/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 79% of tracked projects; popularity more than 60%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 69 commits 2025-11: 141 commits 2025-12: 56 commits 2026-01: 129 commits 2026-02: 107 commits 2026-03: 95 commits 2026-04: 59 commits 2026-05: 78 commits 2026-06: 62 commits 2026-07: 26 commits 2026-08: 180 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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