# liberapay/liberapay.com

Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay

Repository: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/liberapaycom
Homepage: https://liberapay.com/
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: python, crowdfunding, web, money, donation
Last push: 2026-08-26T09:17:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4121, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2006, forks 259 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:04.715505+00:00)

## What it is
Liberapay is a platform for recurrent donations to creators and free-software projects, run by a French nonprofit. This repository contains its Python web application source code.

## Use cases
- accept recurring donations for my open-source project
- crowdfund a free online service
- set up weekly or monthly patron donations
- split donations among team members
- fund creators with a nonprofit donation platform

## When to choose
- you want a nonprofit, no-cut alternative to Patreon for donations
- you need multi-currency recurrent donations via Stripe or PayPal
- you want to contribute to or fork an open donation platform

## When to avoid
- you need to self-host your own donations instance (explicitly not self-hostable)
- you need one-time donations or paid rewards/memberships
- you need NSFW-friendly payment processing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework
- domain: fintech, self-hosted
- platform: python
- tags: donations, crowdfunding, payments, stripe, paypal, nonprofit, payment, web-server

## Member repositories
- liberapay/liberapay.com (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.715505+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:01:25.735773+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.715505+00:00, sha bfb7053ace2b)
  - homepage: https://liberapay.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.303780+00:00, sha bcda97df53e8)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/stats (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.327471+00:00, sha 3425647f0aed)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/legal (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.329730+00:00, sha a8ba63eb42e8)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.313264+00:00, sha 1a7a712f5558)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/use-cases (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.315251+00:00, sha b8d58ad988d8)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.317015+00:00, sha 158ce505d7b1)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/global (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.319352+00:00, sha 4d05046bb98c)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/payment-processors (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.321843+00:00, sha de4440fdb135)
  - site_page: https://liberapay.com/about/teams (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:32.324711+00:00, sha ed8ae86258aa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.