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Servas vs Benotes: catalog facts
Servas	Benotes
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Nested groups and tag-based smart groups Firefox and Chrome extensions	Notes and bookmarks in one place Markdown and rich text editing
No page archiving Setup requires a few manual Docker steps	Still in beta and may have bugs No tagged releases; commits are infrequent
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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