Health, home and travel

Home Assistant Cloud alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

home-assistant/core89,783Apache-2.0Main open-source Home Assistant server for local device control, automation, and integrations.Open on GitHub IceWhaleTech/CasaOS36,998Apache-2.0A simple personal cloud platform providing remote access, app management, and cloud-like services.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Official managed account/subscription and one-click trial experience
Tight official integration with Home Assistant team and hardware
Ongoing vendor support and coordinated development funding for Home Assistant
The bundled privacy-preserving speech pipeline as implemented by Nabu Casa

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Home Assistant Cloud, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.