Self-Hosted Medium Alternatives

Medium is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Medium and many of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Medium are Ghost, EmDash CMS, WriteFreely and Wafrn.

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  1. WordPress icon

    WordPress

     1700 likes

    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    160 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
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    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • US flagUnited States
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    Ghost

     264 likes

    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    294 Ghost alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
    • US flagUnited States
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  4. EmDash CMS icon

    EmDash CMS

     14 likes

    Full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare featuring extensible architecture, sandboxed plugins in Worker isolates, WordPress migration, visual schema builder, role-based access, rich text editing, AI integration, media management, and open source deployment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
    • US flagUnited States
    EmDash CMS screenshot 1
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    WordPress

    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

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    WriteFreely

     48 likes

    WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • US flagUnited States
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  7. Wafrn icon

    Wafrn

     15 likes

    Wafrn is a social network inspired by tumblr, that also can connect with other wafrn instances, or with mastodon, pleroma, firefish and other platforms that use activitypub.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • F-Droid
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  10. Plume icon

    Plume

     23 likes

    Plume is not a single website, but an entire interconnected, yet independent network of what we call instances. You write content from your own instance, but anyone else on any other Plume instance can enjoy your stories too.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Hive Blog icon

    Hive Blog

     4 likes

    Communities without borders. A social network owned and operated by its users, powered by Hive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    btw

     2 likes

    Open source Medium alternative- set up your personal blog in minutes.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  14. Blot icon

    Blot

     14 likes

    Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside. The point of all this?—?the reason Blot exists?—?is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Blot screenshot 1
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  15. Vvveb icon

    Vvveb

     6 likes

    Powerful and easy to use CMS with page builder to build websites, blogs or ecommerce stores.

    226 Vvveb alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • GR flagGreece
    • European Union flagEU
    Page builder light theme
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