Hoppscotch Community Edition

Fast and beautiful API request builder.

Healthy · 75
75/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 22/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 55% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 40 commits 2025-11: 33 commits 2025-12: 35 commits 2026-01: 32 commits 2026-02: 34 commits 2026-03: 34 commits 2026-04: 38 commits 2026-05: 22 commits 2026-06: 23 commits 2026-07: 20 commits 2026-08: 14 commits
2025-10 325 total 2026-08
Stars81k
Latest release2026.8.2 · 23 Sept 2026
Repo updated23 Sept 2026
LicenceMIT
Built withNodejs, Docker

Is Hoppscotch Community Edition actively maintained?

Hoppscotch Community Edition is under active development: 325 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 19 commits a month in the most recent quarter.

The most recent tagged release, 2026.8.2, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Hoppscotch Community Edition ranks #5 of 16 in Software Development - API Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.

What Hoppscotch Community Edition actually does

Hoppscotch Community Edition provides a web-based interface for constructing and testing HTTP, GraphQL, and WebSocket API requests. It helps developers debug endpoints, inspect response payloads, and manage API collections directly from a browser or self-hosted client.

Best fit: Teams and individual developers who want a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to proprietary API development workbenches.

Worth knowing: It requires ongoing maintenance to stay aligned with upstream releases, and you may need to configure user authentication manually for multi-user setups.

Deployment notes

As a Node.js application packaged for Docker, it typically requires a persistent volume for data storage and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.


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