Anthias
by Anthias · Open source digital signage for Raspberry Pi and x86 PCs
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Overview
Anthias is a self-hosted digital signage platform for Raspberry Pi and x86 PCs, formerly named Screenly OSE. You install it on your own hardware and manage each screen from a web interface: upload an image or video, point at a URL, set the duration, playlist order and start and end dates. Every device also exposes a REST API for automating updates across multiple screens.
- Best for
- Teams running their own digital signage on Raspberry Pi or spare x86 hardware they already have
- Pricing
- No prices are published — the software is free and open source, with no subscriptions or per-screen fees, and you provide the hardware.
- Runs on
- Self-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free and open source, no subscriptions or per-screen fees
- Runs on Raspberry Pi 2 through Pi 5 and ordinary x86 hardware
- REST API for automating content and devices across screens
- SD card image flashes from Raspberry Pi Imager, no command line
Trade-offs
- Self-hosted, so you supply and maintain the hardware and network
- Fleet-managed OTA images need a third party such as balenaHub
- Content is limited to images, videos and web pages
- Scheduling covers duration, playlist order and start/end dates only
How Anthias markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Anthias’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Free digital signage for everyone.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Anthias’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
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
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Anthias pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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