ILIAS vs OpenOLAT

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

ILIAS scores 72 against OpenOLAT's 67, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — OpenOLAT may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	ILIAS	OpenOLAT
Health score	72/100	67/100
Commits (11 mo)	1520	3116
Commits (last 3 mo)	346	980
Stars	505	444
Latest release	3 Sept 2026	none tagged
Licence	GPL-3.0	Apache-2.0
Built with	PHP	Java
Typical RAM	1 GB	2 GB

ILIAS

Learning management system that can cope with anything you throw at it.

72/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 34/40

Releases 25/25

Community 5/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 23%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

OpenOLAT

Learning management system for teaching, education, assessment and communication.

67/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 38/40

Releases 13/25

Community 4/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 94% of tracked projects; popularity more than 22%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

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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