Open-source alternatives to Twilio
2 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Twilio. Fonoster is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.
Side by side
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,140 | Active | Permissive | ○ | TypeScript | |
| 4,744 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Java |
Each one, briefly

Ant-Media-Server4,744 stars · not identified · activeAnt Media Server — Ultra-low latency streaming engine with WebRTC (~0.5s), SRT, RTMP, HLS, CMAF, adaptive bitrate, transcoding & scaling
Also replaces Agora, Wowza
Where this comes from
Which projects are offered against Twilio comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Twilio. Browse every open-source alternative.