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Piwigo vs Immich: catalog facts
Piwigo	Immich
Freemium Self-hosted Piwigo is free; Piwigo Cloud is a paid service with a free trial.	Free Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS
Same open-source core for self-hosted and cloud versions Plugin system and API	Automatic background backup from Android and iOS with selective album backup, album sync and Free Up Space to… Search by metadata, objects, faces and CLIP; facial recognition and clustering; reverse geocoding and a global map
Self-hosting requires your own web server Paid support is separate from the free version	Server needs Docker with at least 6 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores (8 GB and 4 cores… The Postgres database must not sit on NTFS, exFAT or a network share and should use local SSD
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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