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servicestack

.NET web services framework with message-based DTO APIs and typed clients

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Stars: 5.5k
License: custom license
Last commit: Nov 2026
Last release: Nov 2026
Language: C#

Stars, last 29 weeks+34

5,468 on 22 Apr 20265,502 on 11 Nov 2026

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Checked 12 Nov 2026 on GitHub.

Overview

ServiceStack is a C# framework for building web services from typed request DTOs. It serves JSON, XML, CSV, ProtoBuf, MsgPack and SOAP, and adds Auto Query over OrmLite-supported databases, plus RabbitMQ, Redis and SQS message hosts. Typed clients for C#, TypeScript, Swift, Java, Kotlin and Dart come from the server DTOs. The README describes no AI features.

Who it is for: .NET developers building typed REST or message-based backend APIs

Strengths

Auto Query builds queryable APIs from a single request DTO across major RDBMS
Typed clients for C#, TypeScript, Swift, Java, Kotlin and Dart from server DTOs
Many wire formats built in: JSON, XML, CSV, JSV, ProtoBuf, MsgPack, SOAP
Message queue hosts for RabbitMQ, Redis and Amazon SQS

Weaknesses

Source is AGPL with FOSS exception; v4+ NuGet packages are commercial with free quotas
No AI, LLM or agent functionality described in the README
README is dated: references Silverlight, Xamarin Studio and Google+
Server side is C#/.NET only

What it needs

no GPU
Docker + Compose
Needs NuGet, RDBMS via OrmLite (optional), RabbitMQ (optional), Redis (optional), Amazon SQS (optional)

What changed

v10.5 ↗ (opens in a new tab)11 Nov 2026
v10.4.2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)19 Oct 2026
v10.4 ↗ (opens in a new tab)6 Oct 2026

From the release notes. No flag means the note does not say so, not that the upgrade is safe.

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How to choose

Check what you get self-hosted versus only in the managed cloud.
See how it handles auth, row-level security and file storage.
Look at the client SDKs for your stack.

Health

Releases: 11 in the last 12 monthsLast one yesterday
Top contributor: 97% of commits610 of 626 in the last 12 months
Security advisories: NoneOn GitHub, in the last 12 months
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.8 out of 10 ↗ (opens in a new tab)Run by OpenSSF on 9 Nov 2026

Read from GitHub, deps.dev and OpenSSF on 12 Nov 2026. Bots and coding-agent accounts are left out of the commit counts. Not part of the score: how we check.

License in plain words

custom license Custom terms

Use it at work: Check
Change it and rebrand it: Check
Sell it or host it for others: Check

Your part: GitHub could not match these terms to a standard license. Read the license before you use it at work, rebrand it or host it for others.

A plain summary, not legal advice. Read the license on GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Set it up

Needs before it works: NuGet, RDBMS via OrmLite (optional), RabbitMQ (optional), Redis (optional), Amazon SQS (optional).

Bring in an engineer who knows servicestack. By the hour for upkeep and fixes, or a fixed price for a build. Our own engineering service; it never changes a rank.

Where to run it

RackNerd ↗ (opens in a new tab)Budget KVM VPS from $26.99 a year to run Docker apps yourself.
RepoCloud ↗ (opens in a new tab)One-click hosting for about 890 open-source apps, each on its own VPS.

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