Frigate
Frigate is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Video Surveillance category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Python. It is a self-hosted alternative to Ring and ships a Docker image. It has 36,946 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 36,946
- Forks
- 3,754
- Open issues
- 68
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,628
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.18.2Oct 15, 2026
- Created
- Jan 26, 2019
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,628 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,628 |
| Latest release | v0.18.2 (Oct 15, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 81 |
| Open issues | 68 |
| Open pull requests | 20 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jan 26, 2019 |
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About Frigate
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate.
Topics
- rtsp
- realtime
- tensorflow
- google-coral
- mqtt
- nvr
- camera
- home-assistant
- object-detection
- ai
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Is Frigate free and open source?
Yes. Frigate is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Frigate with Docker?
Yes. Frigate provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Frigate?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Frigate include Scrypted, Zoneminder and motionEye. Frigate itself is a self-hosted alternative to Ring.
Is Frigate actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Frigate was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,628 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.18.2, published Oct 15, 2026. It had 68 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.