FreshRSS
by FreshRSS · Self-hostable RSS and Atom feed aggregator
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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 FreshRSS markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on FreshRSS’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from FreshRSS’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.
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.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
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 FreshRSS 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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