Sunshine
Sunshine is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Game Servers category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C++. It is a self-hosted alternative to Steam Link / GeForce Now and ships a Docker image. It has 42,640 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 42,640
- Forks
- 2,296
- Open issues
- 113
- Commits, last 12 months
- 853
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v2026.914.233613Sep 15, 2026
- Created
- Dec 15, 2021
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 853 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 853 |
| Latest release | v2026.914.233613 (Sep 15, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 48 |
| Open issues | 113 |
| Open pull requests | 74 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 15, 2021 |
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About Sunshine
Remote game stream host for Moonlight with support up to 120 frames per second and 4K resolution.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine.
Topics
- game-streaming-server
- game-stream
- game-streaming
- remote-desktop
- moonlight
- geforce-experience
- cpp
- replicator-release-notifications
- docker
- winget-pkg
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Is Sunshine free and open source?
Yes. Sunshine is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 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 Sunshine with Docker?
Yes. Sunshine 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 Sunshine?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Sunshine include RomM, Pterodactyl and LinuxGSM. Sunshine itself is a self-hosted alternative to Steam Link / GeForce Now.
Is Sunshine actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Sunshine was on Oct 26, 2026 with 853 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2026.914.233613, published Sep 15, 2026. It had 113 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.