Invidious vs SRS

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

Invidious and SRS are closely matched on maintenance health (76 vs 74). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.

	Invidious	SRS
Health score	76/100	74/100
Commits (11 mo)	227	159
Commits (last 3 mo)	131	31
Stars	25k	29k
Latest release	5 Aug 2026	24 Sept 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	MIT
Built with	Docker, Crystal	Docker, C++
Typical RAM	1 GB	2 GB

Invidious

Alternative YouTube front-end.

76/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 18/40

Releases 25/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 46% of tracked projects; popularity more than 90%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

SRS

A simple, high efficiency and real-time video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV and SRT.

74/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 15/40

Releases 25/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 38% of tracked projects; popularity more than 92%. 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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