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Windmill

windmill-labs/windmill

An open-source alternative to Airplane.dev and Pipedream.

Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal. (from the repository)

Stars
18,218
Licence
NOASSERTION
Last push
2026-10-19
Written in
Rust
Source on GitHub ↗Project website ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 9 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
v1.841.0, 9 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
65% closed
577 open · 1,080 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+65 in 9 days
18,218 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

Not identifiedNOASSERTION

GitHub could not match this licence to a standard one. It may be custom or source-available; read the repository’s LICENSE file before relying on it.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Docker Compose, quoted from Windmill’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/windmill-labs/windmill/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/windmill-labs/windmill/main/Caddyfile -o Caddyfile
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/windmill-labs/windmill/main/.env -o .env

docker compose up -d
Read the full instructions in the README ↗

Where this page comes from

  • Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
  • The pairing with Airplane.dev and Pipedream and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
  • Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data