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bento vs Collabora Online
bento has 5,599 GitHub stars, 388 forks, 38 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Collabora Online has 3,389 stars, 1,014 forks, 874 open issues and last shipped 7 days ago. bento leads on adoption by 65% (5,599 vs 3,389 stars). bento is written in TypeScript under MIT; Collabora Online is written in Shell under a custom or non-standard licence. bento has attracted 7% as many forks as stars, Collabora Online 30%. bento was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (office, open-source), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| bento | Collabora Online | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 5.6K | ★ 3.4K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | TypeScript | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-27 |
| Forks | ⑂ 388 | ⑂ 1.0K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick bento if
- You weight community size — 5.6K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Collabora Online if
- You want the Collabora Online feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Shell
- You evaluated both and Collabora Online fits your workflow better
About bento
Bento — the office suite that fits in a file This PowerPoint alternative is a single HTML file. A Bento deck carries its own viewer, presenter, and editor inside the document — open it in any browser, edit it, present it, send it. The person you send it to needs nothing: the file is the software. Try it in 10 seconds: open bento.page/slides — that's the entire app, running on a starter deck that doubles as the feature tour. Or grab a designed template from the gallery and make it yours. Download the app: grab the single Bento Slides.bento.html from the GitHub Releases page or straight from bento.page ( 560 KB…
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About Collabora Online
Collabora Online [!IMPORTANT] About this repository. Active development of Collabora Online has moved to our Gerrit instance at which is where the source code and code review live. This GitHub repository is kept for: Issue tracking — please report bugs and request features here. Release artifacts — the nightly container image, the Helm chart, and build assets are published from here. Source code changes go to Gerrit, not GitHub. Follow CONTRIBUTING.md and push to Gerrit instead. Pull requests here are welcome only for the parts this repository owns — the Helm chart and the docker image build. A read only mirror…
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Frequently asked questions
Is bento or Collabora Online more popular?
bento has 5,599 GitHub stars and Collabora Online has 3,389. bento has the larger community by that measure.
Are bento and Collabora Online free?
Both are open source. bento is licensed under MIT, and Collabora Online has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between bento and Collabora Online?
bento is written in TypeScript and Collabora Online in Shell. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, bento or Collabora Online?
Choose bento if you want the larger community (5,599 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Collabora Online if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.