Novu
★ 40.1kA 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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Features
- Unified API
- Inbox/In-App notifications
- SMS
- Push notifications
- Chat
- Workflow engine
- Digest engine
- No-code email editor
- Embeddable preferences component
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 9, 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 Containers — moderate 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
# ...
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