Open core. Core under MIT (Community Edition parts under MPL-2.0 per the EE file); server/Enterprise parts under the AFFiNE EE License, production use needs a paid Enterprise subscription Read from the LICENSE file.
GitHub says
NOASSERTION (GitHub could not match a single license, which is why we read the file)
Self-host difficulty
unratedNo docker-compose file at the repository root, so we do not score it.
Activity
★ 74,414 stars · last push 2026-11-10 · checked 2026-11-10
"There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. "
Self-host vs Notion
Self-hosting saves about $780 a year for 20 seats: SaaS $2,400 vs self-host $1,620 (server $144, backups $36, admin time $1,440). Break-even at about 14 seats at these numbers.
Admin hours start from our guess for difficulty unrated and are yours to edit. Notion price: $10 per user per month (Plus plan, billed annually). Plus $10/user/mo billed annually ($12 monthly); Business $20/user/mo billed annually ($24 monthly). Corroborated from third-party reads of the vendor page; the vendor page did not render prices as text. Source: vendor pricing page, checked 2026-11-10.
