motionEye 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.

Viseron scores 81 against motionEye's 72, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — motionEye may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
motionEyeViseron
Health score 72/100 81/100
Commits (11 mo) 369 1002
Commits (last 3 mo) 57 268
Stars 4.7k 3.6k
Latest release 20 Jun 2026 17 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Python, Docker Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

motionEye

Online interface for the software Motion, a video surveillance program with motion detection.

72/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 23/40
Releases 21/25
Community 13/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 57% of tracked projects; popularity more than 65%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 34 commits 2025-12: 247 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 7 commits 2026-05: 24 commits 2026-06: 45 commits 2026-07: 8 commits 2026-08: 4 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted video surveillance.