Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GitHub Pages

The top open-source alternatives to GitHub Pages are Jekyll, Neocities, and surge.sh. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Jekyll Landing Page
1

Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions
Neocities Landing Page
2

Neocities

Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #CMS #Blogging 162 social mentions
surge.sh Landing Page
3

surge.sh

Static website hosting for front-end developers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Static Site Generators #Website Builder #Cloud Computing 24 social mentions
Hugo Landing Page
4

Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 354 social mentions
Coolify Landing Page
5

Coolify

An open-source, hassle-free, self-hostable Heroku & Netlify alternative.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #Cloud Computing #Static Site Generators 55 social mentions
WordPress Landing Page
6

WordPress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 764 social mentions
Next.js Landing Page
7

Next.js

A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 921 social mentions
Docusaurus Landing Page
8

Docusaurus

Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 192 social mentions
Ghost Landing Page
9

Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Monthly (100k views/month, 2 users)
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 173 social mentions
StaticDeploy Landing Page
10

StaticDeploy

An Open-Source Platform for Deploying Static Apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Website Builder #Static Site Generators 1 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
11

Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2195 social mentions
GatsbyJS Landing Page
12

GatsbyJS

Blazing-fast static site generator for React
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 14 social mentions