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, Plume and Scribe.rip.

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Medium alternatives are mainly CMS Tools, but if you're looking for Blog Publishing 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

    WordPress

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    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.

    106 WordPress alternatives

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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.

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    • Most users think WordPress is a great Medium alternative.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WordPress is CustomizableMedium is not according to our users
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    Ghost

     251 likes

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

    271 Ghost alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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    WriteFreely

     49 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.

    48 WriteFreely alternatives

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    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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    Plume

     24 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
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    Wafrn

     11 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
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    • UNIX Web Browser
    • F-Droid
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  10. Blot icon

    Blot

     13 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.

    84 Blot alternatives

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    • Online
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  11. Hive Blog icon

    Hive Blog

     3 likes

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    btw

     1 like

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    Markdown Ninja

     4 likes

    Markdown Ninja is the easiest way to publish Markdown-based websites and newsletters. The days of hacking a static site generator, a broken theme, a complex CI/CD pipeline and a cloud platform with unlimited billing to publish a website are long gone!

    54 Markdown Ninja alternatives

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    • Online
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    • Docker
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    liveSite

     3 likes

    The enterprise website solution without the enterprise price tag. liveSite is a back-end website engine that can drive any front-end website design. It includes CMS, Blogging, eCommerce, Online Forms, Calendaring, and automated Email Campaign features all businesses and...

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    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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