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20 self-hosted Box alternatives

Cloud content management and file storage platform offering secure file sync, sharing, collaboration, metadata, access controls, search, and governance. Provides APIs and integrations for enterprise document and digital asset management, workflows, and compliance.

Alternatives to Box

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

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112.7k stars6.7k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source Go backend providing embedded SQLite, realtime (SSE) subscriptions, auth (JWT/OAuth2), file storage, admin UI and REST-style APIs for web and mobile apps.

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60.8k stars3.7k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

AList is a multi-storage file listing and sharing server with WebDAV access, file previews, protected routes, uploads, and cross-storage file operations.

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50.1k stars7.9k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Copyparty is a portable file server with a web UI, accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, indexing, and support for WebDAV, SFTP, FTP and more.

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46.4k stars1.9k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hostable internet OS that provides a web desktop, cloud storage, and an app platform for files, web apps, and remote-work style workflows.

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43.3k stars4k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing platform with multi-user access, WebDAV, share links, and support for local and S3-compatible storage backends.

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28.6k stars3.9k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted file sync and share platform with libraries, sharing links, versioning, and optional end-to-end encrypted libraries for private team collaboration.

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15.2k stars1.7k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open-source platform for secure file sync, sharing, collaboration, calendars and external storage with WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV support.

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8.8k stars2.1k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Extension for Paperless‑ngx that uses OpenAI-compatible backends and Ollama to auto-classify, tag, index, and enable RAG-powered document chat and semantic search.

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5.9k stars327 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Minimalistic document management and archiving platform for long-term storage, full-text search, tagging, and automated ingestion via email or folders.

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5.2k stars277 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open source Google Drive-like cloud storage with uploads, sharing, media gallery, and optional AES-256 encryption, backed by MongoDB and pluggable storage.

4.2k stars487 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down

Self-hosted photo gallery for organizations and individuals; supports large libraries, albums, plugins, themes, permissions and a developer API.

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3.8k stars480 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Chibisafe is a fast, self-hosted file uploader and vault for files, photos, and documents with shareable links, albums, tagging, and API access.

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2.8k stars298 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted file storage and private social platform with fine-grained access control, capability links, and a web UI for secure sharing.

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2.5k stars195 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted, secure platform for file sharing, collaboration, and document management with no vendor lock-in.

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2.2k stars228 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

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2.1k stars139 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted PDF manager to organize, view, annotate, sign, and share PDFs with multi-device reading progress, tagging, and optional access-controlled links.

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1.9k stars121 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Diskover indexes file systems with Elasticsearch to provide fast file search, metadata analytics, and storage visibility across on-prem, NAS, and cloud storage.

1.8k stars184 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

Self-hosted platform to store, share, collaborate on, and synchronize files with WebDAV, desktop clients, and granular permissions.

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1.7k stars132 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Box actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 18 of 20 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, GPL-2.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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