Helpdesk and live chat

GLPI

IT service management: tickets plus assets. More than a shared inbox.

Partial score

WebsiteCodeDeploy

10/19 signals

Why this score

Not enough measured signals for Owner-safe, and the score is outside the Needs-a-techie band. Captured 2026-10-15. Unmeasured signals add nothing and are not treated as failures.

Alive14/20
  • Last push. 8 points. GitHub pushed_at was 0 days before 2026-10-15.
  • Releases in 12 months. 6 points. The public releases feed shows at least 10 tagged releases in the last 12 months.
  • How fast issues close. Not measured. Median issue-close time is not in the seed snapshot, so this signal is omitted.
Trusted6.4/20
  • OpenSSF Scorecard. 4.6 points. OpenSSF Scorecard 6.6 out of 10.
  • Open critical or high vulnerabilities. Not measured. Open vulnerability counts were not fetched. We do not assume zero.
  • Contributors in 90 days. Not measured. 90-day contributor counts were not fetched.
  • Bus factor. Not measured. Contributor share was not fetched.
  • Stars. 1.8 points. 6,458 stars, log-scaled and capped at 20,000.
Takeoverable13.2/25
  • Licence. 7.5 points. Licence class copyleft.
  • Stack. 3.8 points. PHP. TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, and Vue score as widely hireable.
  • Tests and CI. 1.9 points. A CI workflow file was found. A test suite was not separately confirmed, so this signal scores half.
  • Docs quality. Not measured. Docs quality is an LLM rubric. v1 does not invent that score.
  • Data export. Not measured. Data-export was not audited app by app, so it is omitted.
Easy to run9/20
  • One-click deploy. Not measured. No one-click host was verified for this app, so the signal is omitted rather than scored as a failure.
  • Managed cloud or done-for-you. 5 points. SeatLess offers done-for-you setup. A vendor cloud, where listed, is the vendor’s own hosting, not a licence you own.
  • Docker Compose. 4 points. A Dockerfile or Compose file is in the repository.
  • Memory needs. Not measured. Memory needs were not measured.
  • Setup steps. Not measured. Setup-step rubric was not run.
Feature fit10.5/15
  • Coverage of the incumbent’s main jobs. 10.5 points. Editorial reading of public docs. Not a certified feature audit. Unknown jobs are left out of the average.

What it replaces

GLPI tracks computers, contracts, and support tickets. It is GPL-3.0. Pick it when the helpdesk is really an IT department. It is the wrong shape if you only want a customer chat widget.

Feature coverage vs Zendesk

Editorial, from public descriptions. A dash means we did not assess that job. This is not a lab test, and Zendesk has not reviewed it.

JobGLPI
Shared inbox◐
Tickets✓
Live chat✗
Help centre✓
Automation rules✓

Licence, in plain language

GPL-3.0 Copyleft

You can use and change it. If you distribute the software, you share the source of your changes. Running it for your own staff does not, by itself, force you to publish those changes.

GPL-3.0.

Repository health

Stars6,458
Forks1,832
Open issues464
Last push2026-10-14
Last tagged release2026-10-07
Releases in 12 months10 or more
OpenSSF Scorecard6.6
LanguagePHP
ArchivedNo

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