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11 self-hosted Wistia alternatives

Wistia is a business-focused video hosting and marketing platform that provides video storage and delivery, customizable players and embeds, lead capture tools, video analytics, and content management for websites and landing pages.

Alternatives to Wistia

PeerTube is a decentralized, ActivityPub-federated video hosting platform with live streaming, P2P WebRTC delivery, and customizable community-run instances.

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15.3k stars1.9k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server that supports RTMP ingest, HLS playback, and built-in web chat, with optional Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration.

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11.5k stars1.2k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Modern open source video and media CMS for hosting, organizing, and streaming video, audio, images, and PDFs with RBAC and a REST API.

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5.1k stars952 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a sub-second latency live streaming server that ingests multiple protocols, transcodes to ABR, and delivers streams via WebRTC and Low-Latency HLS.

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3.3k stars1.1k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted web app that indexes videos with AI (transcription, vision analysis, embeddings) to enable natural-language search and scene export.

1.8k stars121 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Self-host game clips and videos, organize them into a library, and share via unique watch links with optional public feed and uploads.

1.5k stars94 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

MistServer is an open-source streaming media toolkit that supports HLS, DASH, RTMP, RTSP, SRT and WebRTC for low-latency live and VOD workflows.

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508 stars155 forksUnlicenselast commit Actively maintained

Subatic is a lightweight video hosting and streaming platform that stores uploads in S3-compatible object storage, transcodes to HLS, and uses PostgreSQL for metadata. Deployable with Docker Compose.

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161 stars11 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

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Self-hosted YouTube-like video sharing app in Go with automatic MP4 (H.264/AAC) transcoding, thumbnail generation, RSS feeds, and file-based libraries (no DB).

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What replacing Wistia 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. 9 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, Unlicense. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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