Self-Hosted Plex & Media Server Alternatives (2026)

Ranked by how painless they are to run yourself — from one-click deploys and single docker run commands up to multi-service stacks. Lower difficulty first.

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Plex
Netflix

Free open-source media server — a self-hosted Plex alternative

53k C# GPL-2.0 yesterday
2/5
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Spotify

Modern self-hosted music server compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients

22k Docker GPL-3.0 today
2/5
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Plex
Netflix

Open-source home theater media center for local and network playback

21k C++ GPL-2.0 today
2/5
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Plex

Zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy for SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, and HLS

19k Go MIT 2 days ago
2/5
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Spotify

Powerful CLI music library manager and MusicBrainz auto-tagger

15k Python MIT today
2/5
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Netflix

Web GUI for yt-dlp — download videos from YouTube and hundreds of other sites

14k Python AGPL-3.0 today
2/5
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Spotify

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with cross-device progress sync

13k Docker GPL-3.0 14 days ago
2/5
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Plex

Self-hosted adult media library organizer with auto-tagging and metadata scraping

12k Docker AGPL-3.0 2 days ago
2/5
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Plex

Decentralized self-hosted live video streaming and chat server

11k Go MIT today
2/5
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Plex

High-efficiency real-time video server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, and SRT

29k Docker MIT 20 days ago
3/5
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Netflix

Privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube

20k Docker AGPL-3.0 3 days ago
3/5
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Spotify

Personal music streaming server with a sleek web player

17k PHP MIT 2 days ago
3/5