Openfire vs Tigase

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

Openfire scores 80 against Tigase's 43, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Tigase may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Openfire	Tigase
Health score	80/100	43/100
Commits (11 mo)	918	39
Commits (last 3 mo)	356	7
Stars	3.1k	359
Latest release	17 Aug 2026	22 Jul 2026
Licence	Apache-2.0	GPL-3.0
Built with	Java	Java
Typical RAM	2 GB	2 GB

Openfire

Real time collaboration (RTC) server.

80/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 31/40

Releases 25/25

Community 12/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 78% of tracked projects; popularity more than 58%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Tigase

XMPP server implementation in Java.

43/100

Slowing

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

Maintenance 7/40

Releases 25/25

Community 4/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 16% of tracked projects; popularity more than 18%. 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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