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Hosting estimate: $2-11/mo hosting (PikaPods/Elestio), plus the email-sending service's usage fees","pricingSourceUrl":null,"priceCheckedAt":"2026-11-05","complianceFlags":[],"affiliate":false,"oss":{"repoUrl":"https://github.com/knadh/listmonk","licenseSpdx":"AGPL-3.0","licenseType":"copyleft","licenseReview":"auto","copyleftNote":"AGPL-3.0: free to use commercially (internally or hosted for your own business). If you modify it and let others use it over a network, you must publish your changes under AGPL.","openCoreNote":null,"stars":24160,"lastReleaseAt":"2026-06-26","latestReleaseTag":null,"backing":"Maintained by Kailash Nadh; README carries the Zerodha Tech badge (Zerodha-backed). Very active: pushed 2026-11-04; v7.0.0-beta.1 pre-release 2026-10-20. Latest stable is v6.2.0 (2026-06-26).","hostedOptions":"No official cloud. One-click: PikaPods from $2.0/mo, Elestio from $11/mo. Or self-host (single binary + PostgreSQL, Docker). You also need an email-sending service (SMTP such as Amazon SES, Postmark or your own mail server), billed separately.","securityNote":"GitHub advisories since Nov 2025: 2 high (stored XSS leading to admin takeover CVE-2026-21483, fixed 6.0.0; sessions not revoked after password change, fixed 6.1.0) and 2 medium (SQL injection in subscriber export CVE-2026-62361, fixed 6.2.0; list-permission bypass, fixed 6.1.0). No open critical on v6.2.0."},"trustChecks":[{"key":"admin_verified","label":"Admin-verified listing","pass":true,"note":"Reviewed by the Catervas team: links and prices checked Nov 5, 2026","checkedAt":"2026-11-05"},{"key":"license","label":"License verified","pass":true,"note":"AGPL-3.0 is on the license allow-list","evidenceUrl":"https://github.com/knadh/listmonk","checkedAt":"2026-11-05"},{"key":"maintenance","label":"Active maintenance","pass":true,"note":"Last release or commit 2026-06-26","evidenceUrl":"https://github.com/knadh/listmonk","checkedAt":"2026-11-05"},{"key":"security","label":"No open critical security advisories","pass":true,"note":"No unpatched critical or high advisories found. 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