Radicale vs Xandikos

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

Radicale scores 76 against Xandikos's 59, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Xandikos may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
RadicaleXandikos
Health score 76/100 59/100
Commits (11 mo) 1381 463
Commits (last 3 mo) 242 74
Stars 5.1k 608
Latest release 24 Sept 2026 18 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 GPL-3.0
Built with Python, deb Python, deb
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Radicale

Simple calendar and contact server with extremely low administrative overhead.

76/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 13/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 85% of tracked projects; popularity more than 66%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 32 commits 2025-11: 47 commits 2025-12: 95 commits 2026-01: 68 commits 2026-02: 173 commits 2026-03: 324 commits 2026-04: 260 commits 2026-05: 140 commits 2026-06: 72 commits 2026-07: 32 commits 2026-08: 138 commits

Xandikos

Open source CardDAV and CalDAV server with minimal administrative overhead, backed by a Git repository.

59/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 25/40
Releases 25/25
Community 5/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 62% of tracked projects; popularity more than 27%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 15 commits 2025-11: 19 commits 2025-12: 27 commits 2026-01: 105 commits 2026-02: 20 commits 2026-03: 20 commits 2026-04: 63 commits 2026-05: 120 commits 2026-06: 22 commits 2026-07: 24 commits 2026-08: 28 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 calendar & contacts.