Mautic vs Sympa

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

Mautic scores 95 against Sympa's 41, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Sympa may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Mautic	Sympa
Health score	95/100	41/100
Commits (11 mo)	5226	63
Commits (last 3 mo)	3340	18
Stars	11k	315
Latest release	23 Sept 2026	14 Aug 2026
Licence	GPL-3.0	GPL-2.0
Built with	PHP	Perl
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Mautic

Marketing automation software (email, social and more).

95/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40

Releases 25/25

Community 16/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 80%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Sympa

Mailing list manager.

41/100

Slowing

Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.

Maintenance 9/40

Releases 25/25

Community 3/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 21% of tracked projects; popularity more than 16%. 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted communication - email - mailing lists and newsletters.