Home automation hub · Voice assistant
Home Assistant
The open smart-home hub that works without any cloud.
open source self-hostable Open Home Foundation · CHConnects thousands of devices locally, automates them and runs a voice assistant on your own hardware; stewarded by a Swiss foundation.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Open Home Foundation (CH) — Home of Home Assistant |
|---|---|
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 8 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Home |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 90,230 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Python, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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