# Open source and self-hosting Omentir
> What Omentir being MIT open source means for buyers: read the code, self-host with Docker, or use the managed product with providers and support included.
- HTML: https://omentir.com/features/open-source-self-hosting
- Markdown: https://omentir.com/features/open-source-self-hosting.md

Transparent codebase, self-host option, or managed Omentir at omentir.com. Same product family, different ops burden.

## Highlights

- MIT licensed app
- Docker-based setup
- You bring the providers

## Open source in plain terms

Omentir's application code is public on GitHub under the MIT license. You can read how outreach, agents, and safety limits work instead of trusting a black box. That transparency matters when software sends messages from your personal LinkedIn identity.

Open source does not mean every third-party service is free. Self-hosting still needs your own accounts for identity, data store, LinkedIn connectivity, and model providers as documented in the repository.

## When self-hosting makes sense

Self-host if you have ops capacity, want data residency under your control, or need to run inside your own infrastructure constraints. Docker-oriented setup exists for that path. You own uptime, upgrades, secrets, and provider failures.

Self-host is a poor fit if you wanted a fully managed sales tool and hoped open source would remove all maintenance. Managed Omentir exists exactly so most teams do not have to run the stack.

## When the hosted product is the better buy

Choose hosted Omentir when you want the same product without operating Firebase, Unipile, model keys, and deploy pipelines yourself. Pricing covers the managed experience, support expectations, and commercial packaging such as the Minimum Booking Guarantee rules where eligible.

## Trust implications

Auditable code helps technical buyers. It does not replace terms of service, privacy policy, or your responsibility for how you message people. Read both the repository and the public legal pages before you put production outbound on either path.

## How to decide hosted versus self-host in a week

If you want to test whether LinkedIn outbound works for your offer, use the hosted product. Self-hosting asks you to run Docker, Firebase, Unipile, and a model provider before you have learned anything about buyers. That is the right week-two or month-two project, not the first experiment.

If you already know you need the code on your machines, clone the public repo, follow the self-host docs, and budget time for provider accounts. The MIT license lets you read and modify the app. It does not remove the external services the app still calls.

## What open source does not mean here

It does not mean offline, free of vendor cost, or a community edition with features removed. The public repository is the same application. Credentials, customer data, and production logs stay private. Forks should use their own name and logo.

## Related

- [Open source announcement](https://omentir.com/blogs/omentir-is-now-open-source.md): Why the code went public.
- [Pricing](https://omentir.com/pricing.md): Managed plan options.
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/vanshyadav1408/Omentir): Source and self-host docs.

## Frequently asked questions

**Is the hosted product closed source?**

Hosted Omentir runs the open-source application as a managed service. You pay for operations, providers, and support packaging, not for a secret second codebase narrative.

**Where is the repository?**

https://github.com/vanshyadav1408/Omentir under the MIT license.

**Can I mix self-host for data and hosted for convenience?**

Teams usually pick one primary path. Evaluate based on who will operate LinkedIn connectivity, models, and uptime.