Btcpayserver vs Open Payment Host
Btcpayserver and Open Payment Host are both self-hosted payment gateway software. Btcpayserver is open source under MIT, with 7.9k GitHub stars. Open Payment Host is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 243 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Btcpayserver when
- You want to accept Bitcoin directly into your own wallet without a third-party processor.
- Pick Open Payment Host when
- You sell a few digital products and want to avoid platform commissions on top of Stripe fees.
Side by side
A self-hosted Bitcoin and Lightning payment processor with invoices, a point of sale, crowdfunding pages and e-commerce plugins, with no middleman fees.
A self-hosted storefront for selling digital products, subscriptions and files through Stripe, as an alternative to Gumroad or Ko-fi.
You run a full node and handle crypto price volatility, accounting and tax yourself.
One maintainer, no releases, and you take on tax handling that Gumroad-style platforms do for you.
Production-ready
Experimental
Self-hosted server (both)
C#, .NET and PostgreSQL
Go, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Stripe
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
7.9k GitHub stars
243 GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release v2.4.7.
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.