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osTicketvsUmbraco CMS

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

osTicketUmbraco CMS
Score66/10071/100
Rank in category#2 of 9 in Helpdesk#7 of 42 in Content Management
GitHub stars3 9985 278
Stars, last 30 days+75+21
Stable releases, 12 months429
Latest releasev1.18.4 · 17 Jun 2026release-18.3.0 · 29 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-2.0MIT
Main languagePHPC

Which one should you pick?

Umbraco CMS scores 71/100 against 66/100 for osTicket, so it is the safer default.

Umbraco CMS ships more often: 29 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for osTicket.

If you want the quickest setup, osTicket is easier to run; Umbraco CMS needs more configuration.

osTicket is growing faster right now (+75 stars in 30 days).

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