BookStack
75 · StableWiki organized as shelves, books, chapters and pages, built on Laravel.
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BookStack
Wiki organized as shelves, books, chapters and pages, built on Laravel.
Will it still be around?
Health 75/100 · Stable
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
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Savings proposal
A 25-user team on Confluence Standard pays about $160 a month. Self-hosting BookStack costs about $132 a month to run plus $480 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 18 and saves about $528 over three years.
List price: Confluence Standard, billed monthly. Premium is $12.30 per user. Free for up to 10 users. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$528
Pays for itself
Month 18
Extra cost in year one
$144
Each month
$160 → $132
Show as a table
| Month | Confluence | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $480 | −$480 |
| Month 3 | $480 | $876 | −$396 |
| Month 6 | $960 | $1,272 | −$312 |
| Month 9 | $1,440 | $1,668 | −$228 |
| Month 12 | $1,920 | $2,064 | −$144 |
| Month 18 | $2,880 | $2,856 | $24 |
| Month 24 | $3,840 | $3,648 | $192 |
| Month 30 | $4,800 | $4,440 | $360 |
| Month 36 | $5,760 | $5,232 | $528 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting BookStack usually means one small container and a database. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of BookStack (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 75/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit 7 days ago (100/100).
- 435 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 31 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
16/100
- Top contributor wrote 88% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 5 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
100/100
- 100% of all issues are closed (0 open, 5010 closed) (100/100).
- 30 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (100/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
MIT License · Open source (permissive)
OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
Detected by GitHub as MIT.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 19k | Forks | 2.4k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 7 days ago | Commits, 12 months | 435 |
| Releases, 12 months | 31 | Last release | 8 days ago |
| Contributors | 197 | Active authors | 5 in last 100 commits |
| Open issues | 0 | Closed issues | 5.0k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.