OpenCloud vs Puter

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

OpenCloud and Puter are closely matched on maintenance health (89 vs 92). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
OpenCloudPuter
Health score 89/100 92/100
Commits (11 mo) 1543 2205
Commits (last 3 mo) 562 589
Stars 6.1k 44k
Latest release 16 Sept 2026 20 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker, Go, Nodejs Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

OpenCloud

File Sharing and Collaboration Platform.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 14/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 70%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 82 commits 2025-11: 140 commits 2025-12: 158 commits 2026-01: 147 commits 2026-02: 86 commits 2026-03: 99 commits 2026-04: 117 commits 2026-05: 152 commits 2026-06: 157 commits 2026-07: 106 commits 2026-08: 299 commits

Puter

Web-based operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible.

92/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 91% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 238 commits 2025-11: 172 commits 2025-12: 201 commits 2026-01: 149 commits 2026-02: 233 commits 2026-03: 174 commits 2026-04: 125 commits 2026-05: 324 commits 2026-06: 120 commits 2026-07: 220 commits 2026-08: 249 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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