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, WriteFreely, EmDash CMS and Wafrn.

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Medium alternatives are mainly Blog Publishing Tools, but if you're looking for CMS Tools or Website Builders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Medium.
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  1. WordPress icon
     1691 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.

    145 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
     
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    WordPress is free and doesn't nag you with annoying, half-the-screen covering bars of ads, registration and app downloads.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WordPress is CustomizableMedium is not according to our users
  2. Ghost icon
     263 likes

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

    286 Ghost alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  3. WriteFreely icon
     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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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  4. EmDash CMS icon
     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.

    56 EmDash CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
     
  5. Wafrn icon
     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
     
  6. Plume icon
     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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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Mataroa Blog icon
     10 likes

    Blogging platform for minimalists.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Hive Blog icon
     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
     
  9. Blot icon
     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
     
  10. btw icon
     1 like

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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