Erxes
Marketing, sales, and customer service platform designed to help businesses attract more engaged customers.
- Helpdesk & Ticketing
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0 + erxes terms
- Source-available
- Docker
- Actively maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 4,091
- Forks
- 1,312
- Open issues
- 392
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,499
- Last commit
- Oct 6, 2026
- Latest release
- 3.2.12Oct 4, 2026
- Created
- Nov 11, 2016
- License
- AGPL-3.0 with a no-competing-SaaS conditionSource-available
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About Erxes
Marketing, sales, and customer service platform designed to help businesses attract more engaged customers. Erxes is source-available under the AGPL-3.0 with a no-competing-SaaS condition and written mainly in TypeScript, so you can read the code, run it on your own hardware and keep full control of your data.
The project has 4,091 stars and 1,312 forks on GitHub, with 2,499 commits over the last year. It ships a Docker image, which makes it a good fit for a small VPS or a home server running Docker Compose.
Topics
- intercom-alternative
- hubspot-alternative
- zendesk-alternative
- experience-operating-system
- customer-experience
- employee-experience
- medallia-alternative
- front-alternative
- qualtrics-alternative
- wix-alternative
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What is Erxes?
Erxes is a source-available app you can host on your own server, listed in our Helpdesk & Ticketing category. Marketing, sales, and customer service platform designed to help businesses attract more engaged customers. The source code lives at github.com/erxes/erxes, where it has 4,091 stars.
Is Erxes free and open source?
Not by the OSI definition. Erxes is source-available rather than open source: its code is public under the AGPL-3.0 with a no-competing-SaaS condition, which is not an OSI-approved open-source license. This is a custom license: the source is public, but it adds conditions that OSI-approved licenses do not, such as limits on commercial, hosted or production use. Read it before you deploy. Check the license in the repository before using it commercially.
Can I run Erxes with Docker?
Yes. Erxes provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Erxes?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Erxes include Zammad, FreeScout and Frappe Helpdesk. Erxes itself is a self-hosted alternative to Zendesk and Intercom.
Is Erxes actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Erxes was on Oct 6, 2026 with 2,499 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 3.2.12, published Oct 4, 2026. Check the open issues on GitHub to gauge how quickly maintainers respond.