Flexisip vs Kamailio: catalog facts
Flexisip | Kamailio |
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Best for: Running your own SIP VoIP service, especially for Linphone mobile users |
Best for: Telecom engineers building SIP, VoIP or WebRTC platforms |
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Free Free under the AGPL 3.0, with a paid proprietary licence for closed-source use. |
Free Free and open source under the GPLv2 or later. |
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Self-hosted |
Linux, Self-hosted |
- Push gateway delivers calls and messages to mobile apps in the background
- Proxy, presence and B2BUA in one suite
All 4 strengths for Flexisip- Push gateway delivers calls and messages to mobile apps in the background
- Proxy, presence and B2BUA in one suite
- Powers the public linphone.org SIP service
- Can run on embedded hardware
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- Handles thousands of call setups per second
- WebSocket support for WebRTC plus TLS for secure signalling
All 4 strengths for Kamailio- Handles thousands of call setups per second
- WebSocket support for WebRTC plus TLS for secure signalling
- Wide routing features including load balancing, fail-over and least cost routing
- Actively maintained with regular stable releases
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- Requires SIP and VoIP knowledge to deploy
- Conference server is now a separate package
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- Infrastructure for engineers, not an end-user calling app
- Configuration requires solid SIP and VoIP knowledge
All 3 limitations for Kamailio- Infrastructure for engineers, not an end-user calling app
- Configuration requires solid SIP and VoIP knowledge
- Handles signalling only; media needs separate servers
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Self-hosted |
Downloadable app, Self-hosted |
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Open source |
Open source |
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License: AGPL-3.0 |
License: GPL-2.0-or-later |
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Not stated if an account is needed |
No account needed |
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Not stated if it works offline |
Not stated if it works offline |
Sources for FlexisipCatalog checked October 2, 2026 |
Sources for KamailioCatalog checked October 2, 2026 |
“Not stated” means we have not confirmed it. Features can vary by device and plan.
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