The best Frigate alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Frigate, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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FrigateSelf-hosted camera recorder that spots people, cars and animals locally using AI.
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go2rtc
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.6k
A small server that receives, converts and re-serves live camera video in many formats.
Best for: Home users connecting IP cameras to a browser or Home Assistant; People who want low-latency live viewing of RTSP camera streams
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System Informer
Open source · MIT · ★ 16.4k
A free Windows tool for watching system resources, finding what locks files, and checking suspicious programs.
Best for: Windows users who want more detail than Task Manager provides; People trying to find which program is locking a file
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Netron
Open source · MIT · ★ 33.6k
Desktop and browser viewer that draws the structure of trained neural network model files.
Best for: Engineers who need to check a model's layers and tensor connections before deploying it; Students learning how a network is structured by looking at a real file
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Frigate. We don't take payment for placement.