Puter vs Warpgate

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

Puter scores 92 against Warpgate's 86, putting it slightly ahead. That measures project health, not feature fit — Warpgate may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
PuterWarpgate
Health score 92/100 86/100
Commits (11 mo) 2205 836
Commits (last 3 mo) 589 467
Stars 44k 8k
Latest release 20 Sept 2026 23 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with Nodejs, Docker Rust, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

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

Warpgate

Fully transparent SSH, HTTPS, Kubernetes, MySQL and Postgres bastion/PAM that doesn't need additional client-side software.

86/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 31/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 76% of tracked projects; popularity more than 75%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 25 commits 2025-11: 18 commits 2025-12: 23 commits 2026-01: 57 commits 2026-02: 31 commits 2026-03: 77 commits 2026-04: 63 commits 2026-05: 75 commits 2026-06: 130 commits 2026-07: 167 commits 2026-08: 170 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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