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Novu

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A self-hosted alternative to Twilio

MIT LicenseOpen Source — No Paywall6 Containers — 6 containers — moderate hosting footprintDocker · Compose · SourceNeeds MongoDB2 documented maintainers

About

Novu is an open-source communication infrastructure platform built for products and agents that need to talk to users across multiple channels. It provides a single API and unified conversation model...

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Novu's Embeddable Inbox components

Features

  • Unified API
  • Inbox/In-App notifications
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Push notifications
  • Chat
  • Workflow engine
  • Digest engine
  • No-code email editor
  • Embeddable preferences component

Details

Last Updated
Jul 12, 2026
Created
Aug 26, 2021
Install Methods
dockerdocker-composesource
Requirements
Node.jsCreate a free account
API
REST
Runtime / Stack
DockerNodejs
Privacy & Independence
Cloud: Optional
User Model
Multi-User
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓6 Containersmoderate hosting footprintRuns as 6 containers

Docker Compose

6 services · database: mongo · infra: redis, mongo

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (1 volume)

docker/community/docker-compose.yml · @ 7cad2fb · scanned Jun 4, 2026

name: novu
services:
  redis:
    image: "redis:alpine"
    container_name: redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    logging:
      driver: "json-file" # Enabled json-file logging with limits for consistency
      options:
        max-size: "50m"
        max-file: "5"
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5

  mongodb:
    image: mongo:8.0.17
    container_name: mongodb
# ...

Open-source health

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Source: isitreallyfoss.com · reviewed Jun 2025

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