FreshRSS
by FreshRSS · Self-hostable RSS and Atom feed aggregator
33.4 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator you download and install on your own server. It follows websites, podcasts and video channels in one place, and can generate feeds by scraping external sites or by filtering existing ones. It also supports OPML import and export, WebSub, saved searches, themes and extensions.
- Best for
- People who want to run their own RSS and Atom reader on a server they control.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown: FreshRSS is free software under AGPL 3 that you host yourself, with optional donations via Liberapay.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free software under AGPL 3, hosted on your own server
- Handles 1M+ articles and 50k+ feeds, per the project
- Web scraping and filter-based feed generation built in
- OPML import/export, WebSub, and 15+ translations
Trade-offs
- You install, update and maintain it on your own server
- No official hosted plan; you use someone else's server or your own
- Community project with no paid support tier shown
- The 1M+ article and 50k+ feed figures are the project's own claims
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 0 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 51 out of 100
- Customer sentiment
- 81 out of 100
- Changelog
- 80 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 45 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 0 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 40 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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