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Ghost vs sourcey
Ghost has 55,658 GitHub stars, 12,130 forks, 182 open issues and last shipped yesterday. sourcey has 1,375 stars, 333 forks, 19 open issues and last shipped 5 days ago. Ghost leads on adoption by 3,948% (55,658 vs 1,375 stars). Ghost is written in TypeScript under MIT; sourcey is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0. Ghost has attracted 22% as many forks as stars, sourcey 24%. Ghost was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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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| Ghost | sourcey | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 56K | ★ 1.4K |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 12K | ⑂ 333 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Ghost if
- You weight community size — 56K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick sourcey if
- You want the sourcey feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and sourcey fits your workflow better
About Ghost
Ghost.org • Forum • Docs • Contributing • Twitter [!NOTE] Love open source? We're hiring! Ghost is looking staff engineers to join the team and work with us full time The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official Ghost(Pro) managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you. For most people this ends up being the best value option because of how much time it saves — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be…
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About sourcey
Sourcey Docs straight from the source. Sourcey turns OpenAPI, MCP, Doxygen XML, godoc, rustdoc, and Markdown into one static HTML site you own: reference, guides, changelog, roadmap, and llms.txt from the same build, deployable anywhere. Everything renders at build time: no dashboard, no runtime, no API calls to render your own documentation. Live demo · Documentation · GitHub Features OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 : full spec coverage including QUERY operations, response summaries, hierarchical tags, deviceAuthorization OAuth, querystring parameters, and $self aware refs for multi document APIs API reference…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ghost or sourcey more popular?
Ghost has 55,658 GitHub stars and sourcey has 1,375. Ghost has the larger community by that measure.
Are Ghost and sourcey free?
Both are open source. Ghost is licensed under MIT and sourcey under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Ghost and sourcey?
Ghost is written in TypeScript and sourcey in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Ghost or sourcey?
Choose Ghost if you want the larger community (55,658 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose sourcey if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.