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24 alternatives to soketi

Your self-hosted, open-source WebSockets server

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. soketi launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!

    2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →

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    Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

    2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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    A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming - GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲90

    Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

    Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help. OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in. What works today: fetch, KV, Postgres bindings, S3/R2, cron scheduling, crypto.subtle. Self-hosting is a single docker-compose file + Postgres. Would love feedback on the architecture and what feature you'd want next.

    Jan 2026 · openworkers.com · its alternatives →

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    coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.

    2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →

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    Portal▲164

    Self-host open source apps in seconds

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to minikomi/pipesock development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source, real time API platform

    2016 · telepat.io · its alternatives →

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    Webapp.io is a DevOps platform for developers of modern webapps.

    2023 · webapp.io · its alternatives →

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    An open-source ChatGPT app with a voice. Contribute to cogentapps/chat-with-gpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebSockets are easy now

    2015 · websocketd.com · its alternatives →

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    ServiceRadar is an open-source platform for distributed, secure network management and observability, scaling to 100k+ devices. Born from frustration with complex traditional NMS tools like Zabbix, it bridges legacy (SNMP/syslog) and modern (gNMI, OTLP) protocols for cloud-native environments. We built ServiceRadar to simplify monitoring hybrid telecom networks, evolving it into a Kubernetes-native solution with Helm and Docker support. It uses mTLS with SPIFFE/SPIRE, NATS JetStream for event streaming (90M+ EPS), and SRQL for intuitive queries. Integrated with OpenTelemetry,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source Datadog alternative

    2023 · oneuptime.com · its alternatives →

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    Opal Ruby + Express + Socket.io. Contribute to sebyx07/opal-express-socketio development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A CLI development tool for WebSocket APIs. Contribute to eliihen/wsta development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Large-scale server monitoring application written in Golang - gmemstr/Platypus

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Collection of oatpp WebSocket examples. Contribute to oatpp/example-websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sockudo▲14

    High-performance Pusher alternative in Rust

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Drawing attention to an open source project of mine

    2015 · xania.org · its alternatives →

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  24. 24SS

    Hey HN, I've been playing around with OpenPGP.js and Soketi lately and decided to build a simple E2E encrypted messaging app. It's called subtle.sh. The idea is pretty straightforward: you need to send a secret to someone, but you don't want to use Slack, email, or any other plain text medium. subtle.sh generates a fresh session with ephemeral keys, you share the link, and once the tab is closed, everything disappears. Some key points: - Zero setup required (no accounts, no installation) - E2E encryption using OpenPGP.js - Real-time messaging with Soketi (an open-source Pusher alternative) -…

    2024 · subtle.sh · its alternatives →

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