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Uptime Kuma vs Maple
Uptime Kuma has 91,477 GitHub stars, 8,426 forks, 805 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Maple has 1,783 stars, 119 forks, 29 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Uptime Kuma leads on adoption by 5,031% (91,477 vs 1,783 stars). Uptime Kuma is written in JavaScript under MIT; Maple is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence. Uptime Kuma has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Maple 7%. Uptime Kuma 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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| Uptime Kuma | Maple | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 91K | ★ 1.8K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | JavaScript | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 8.4K | ⑂ 119 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Uptime Kuma if
- You weight community size — 91K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Maple if
- You want the Maple feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and Maple fits your workflow better
About Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is a free, MIT licensed, self hosted monitoring tool with a reactive web dashboard, built for operators and teams that want to watch their own HTTP, TCP, and DNS endpoints and keep the resulting data on their own infrastructure.
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About Maple
Maple is an open source observability platform for traces, logs, and metrics, and it lives in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem within the Infrastructure & Operations / Monitoring & Observability category. The project is built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, and the repository is organized as a TypeScript monorepo with a single page application frontend and an Effect based backend API.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Uptime Kuma or Maple more popular?
Uptime Kuma has 91,477 GitHub stars and Maple has 1,783. Uptime Kuma has the larger community by that measure.
Are Uptime Kuma and Maple free?
Both are open source. Uptime Kuma is licensed under MIT, and Maple has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Uptime Kuma and Maple?
Uptime Kuma is written in JavaScript and Maple 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, Uptime Kuma or Maple?
Choose Uptime Kuma if you want the larger community (91,477 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Maple if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.