Best Self-Hosted CRM Tools

Self-hosted CRM tools replace Salesforce or HubSpot with contacts, pipelines, and deals you run yourself. The picks below span a real range: business CRMs built for a sales team versus a personal CRM (PRM) for tracking friends and family, simple LAMP-style installs versus modern full-stack apps, permissive MIT or Vtiger-style licensing versus AGPL's network-copyleft terms, and a single-purpose CRM versus Odoo's full ERP suite with CRM as one module. Compare them on footprint and licence as much as feature checklists — the right one depends on what kind of relationships you're actually tracking.

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EspoCRM

An open-source CRM covering sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and support cases, with a visual entity and relationship builder for custom modules. Ships an official Docker image with a MariaDB backend and a companion daemon container that runs background jobs like email sync and workflows.

PHPJavaScript

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Frappe CRM

Frappe CRM is an open-source CRM built on the Frappe framework (the same platform behind ERPNext), with a Kanban deal pipeline, call and email integrations, and a low-code UI builder for custom fields and views. It installs via the frappe_docker bench pattern — a MariaDB and Redis stack alongside a container that provisions the site.

PythonFrappe FrameworkVue.js

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Krayin CRM

Krayin CRM is an open-source CRM built on Laravel and Vue.js for lead and customer lifecycle management, covering pipelines, quotes, and email and campaign tools. It self-hosts via the official krayin-docker repo, which builds a PHP-Apache container alongside MySQL, Redis, and phpMyAdmin.

PHPLaravelVue.js

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Monica

Monica is a personal CRM (a PRM, not a business CRM) for tracking relationships with family, friends, and other personal contacts — reminders for birthdays and calls, gift ideas, and a private journal of interactions. It self-hosts via the official Docker image with a MariaDB backend.

PHPLaravelVue.js

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OroCRM

OroCRM is an enterprise-grade open-source CRM built on Symfony, with workflow automation, marketing-automation tooling, and a B2B-oriented sales pipeline. Oro's dedicated oroinc/crm-application Docker image was discontinued in November 2021 (confirmed via Docker Hub: last push 2021-11-18, and its entrypoint no longer runs at all). Self-hosting OroCRM today means running the actively maintained oroinc/orocommerce-application image from the same official docker-demo compose — OroCommerce is Oro's current platform and bundles the CRM feature set.

PHPSymfonyPostgreSQL

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SuiteCRM

SuiteCRM is a long-established open-source CRM covering sales, marketing, and customer-service modules, forked from an early SugarCRM Community Edition. It publishes no official Docker image — self-hosters commonly run the release zip on the official PHP and MariaDB Docker Library images instead.

PHPMySQL

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Twenty

An open-source CRM with a modern, Notion-like interface covering contacts, companies, and fully customizable sales pipelines. Positioned as an open alternative to Salesforce, with a GraphQL API and a Postgres-backed data model you can extend without code.

TypeScriptNestJSReact

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Vtiger CRM

Vtiger's open-source Community Edition covers contact and deal management, a module builder, and basic marketing tools, released under a source-available license that is not OSI-approved. Vtiger publishes no official Docker image — self-hosters commonly run the community-maintained javanile/vtiger image alongside MySQL.

PHPMySQL

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Head-to-heads in this category

CRMSep 2026

SSuiteCRM

vs

EspoCRM

Long-established with no official Docker image vs. lighter, official image, easier to run.

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CRMSep 2026

Twenty

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EspoCRM

Modern, flexible, and RAM-hungry vs. lighter, traditional, faster to trust.

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