Kestra vs OliveTin

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

Kestra scores 96 against OliveTin's 82, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — OliveTin may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
KestraOliveTin
Health score 96/100 82/100
Commits (11 mo) 4239 744
Commits (last 3 mo) 1452 235
Stars 28k 3.8k
Latest release 22 Sept 2026 10 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Go
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Kestra

Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.

96/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 96% of tracked projects; popularity more than 91%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 429 commits 2025-11: 303 commits 2025-12: 341 commits 2026-01: 336 commits 2026-02: 365 commits 2026-03: 361 commits 2026-04: 350 commits 2026-05: 302 commits 2026-06: 485 commits 2026-07: 442 commits 2026-08: 525 commits

OliveTin

Web interface for running Linux shell commands.

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 74% of tracked projects; popularity more than 62%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 100 commits 2025-11: 91 commits 2025-12: 48 commits 2026-01: 79 commits 2026-02: 76 commits 2026-03: 58 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 57 commits 2026-06: 102 commits 2026-07: 112 commits 2026-08: 21 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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