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Alfresco Community EditionLogicalDOC Community
Free

Community Edition is free under the LGPL; commercial Alfresco editions are sold by Hyland.

 Freemium

The Community Edition is free and open source. Business editions are paid.

Self-hosted Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
  • Mature document repository with REST and CMIS APIs
  • Self-hosted with full control over data
  • REST and SOAP APIs for integration with other business systems
  • Access control and versioning in the free community edition
  • Complex to deploy and administer
  • Product site mainly promotes paid enterprise editions
  • Many features, including OCR and workflow, are in the paid editions
  • Java stack with a substantial resource footprint
Self-hosted Self-hosted, Web application
Open source Open source
License: LGPL-3.0 License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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