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Instatic

Visual website builder and CMS that publishes clean static pages, with users, roles, plugins and AI-assisted editing.

Alternative to

Will it still be around?

Stable

Score 64/100

Details

Can a business use it freely?

Free to use

MIT · open source (permissive)

Details

Flat Rate Deploy

Monthly cost

Instatic on OpenTools
$15
Webflow
$1,000

You save each month

$985/mo

99% less than today

Saving from month one

You save

Over 3 years
$35,460
In year one
$11,820

List price checked 8 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer

Health score: 64/100

Stable · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub

Score v2 · How it works

Activity

45% weight

100/100

  • Last commit 26 days ago (100/100).
  • 1201 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
  • 20 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).

Bus factor

30% weight

52/100

  • Top contributor wrote 61% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
  • 17 people authored those commits.

Responsiveness

25% weight

13/100

  • 32% of all issues are closed (95 open, 45 closed) (4/100).
  • 6 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (20/100).

License

Free to use

MIT · Open source (permissive)

What you need to do

Use, change, host and sell it for any purpose, commercial included, with no license to buy. Keep the copyright notice.

MIT License · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.

Detected by GitHub as MIT.

GitHub activity

Stars
8.9k
Forks
843
Commits, 12 mo
1.2k
last 26 days ago
Releases, 12 mo
20
last 26 days ago
Contributors
27
17 in last 100 commits
Open issues
95
45 closed

Snapshot from 2026-10-08 · Funding: github

Top contributors

Points for pull requests merged into Instatic and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 27 people have points on Instatic in all.

  1. 11,086 points
  2. 2100 points
  3. 390 points
  4. 433 points
  5. 530 points
  6. 620 points
  7. 720 points
  8. 820 points
  9. 920 points
  10. 1010 points
Bespoke · we set it up$1,200onceFlat Rate Deploy$15/mo