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Directory / Email marketing / Dittofeed
Dittofeed
Customer engagement platform for automated email, SMS and push journeys.
Will it still be around?
Health 61/100 · Stable
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
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Savings proposal
At $100 a month (Customer.io Essentials), self-hosting Dittofeed costs more: about $264 a month to run plus $1,200 to set up. It pays off once your Customer.io bill is above $264 a month, so enter your actual bill.
List price: Customer.io Essentials, billed monthly. Priced by stored profiles (5,000 at this price). Premium starts around $1,000 a month. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Extra cost over 3 years
$7,104
Pays for itself
Not at this size
Extra cost in year one
$3,168
Each month
$100 → $264
Show as a table
| Month | Customer.io | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $1,200 | −$1,200 |
| Month 3 | $300 | $1,992 | −$1,692 |
| Month 6 | $600 | $2,784 | −$2,184 |
| Month 9 | $900 | $3,576 | −$2,676 |
| Month 12 | $1,200 | $4,368 | −$3,168 |
| Month 18 | $1,800 | $5,952 | −$4,152 |
| Month 24 | $2,400 | $7,536 | −$5,136 |
| Month 30 | $3,000 | $9,120 | −$6,120 |
| Month 36 | $3,600 | $10,704 | −$7,104 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Dittofeed usually means an app server, a database and a cache or worker. 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 Dittofeed (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: 61/100
Activity45% weight
96/100
- Last commit 4 days ago (100/100).
- 81 commits in the past 12 months (83/100).
- 37 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
7/100
- Top contributor wrote 95% of the last 81 commits (past 12 months).
- 5 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
64/100
- 66% of all issues are closed (37 open, 72 closed) (60/100).
- 12 of 18 recent issues got a reply or were closed (67/100).
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 | 3.0k | Forks | 406 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 4 days ago | Commits, 12 months | 81 |
| Releases, 12 months | 37 | Last release | 10 months ago |
| Contributors | 29 | Active authors | 5 in last 81 commits |
| Open issues | 37 | Closed issues | 72 |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.