Btcpayserver vs OwnPay
Btcpayserver and OwnPay are both self-hosted payment gateway software. Btcpayserver is open source under MIT, with 7.9k GitHub stars. OwnPay is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 204 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Btcpayserver when
- You want to accept Bitcoin directly into your own wallet without a third-party processor.
- Pick OwnPay when
- You want to test a self-hosted gateway layer over local payment methods and can audit it.
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 payment gateway panel for managing brands, payment gateways and transactions on your own server.
You run a full node and handle crypto price volatility, accounting and tax yourself.
Created in April 2026 and still at version 0.2; handling payments on a young codebase is risky.
Production-ready
Experimental
Self-hosted server (both)
C#, .NET and PostgreSQL
PHP and Twig
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
204 GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release v2.4.7.
Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v0.2.0.
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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.