Relaticle Review

Overview

Relaticle is an open-source CRM you run on your own server under the AGPL-3.0 license, built on Laravel 13, Filament 5, Livewire 4, and PHP 8.5. The repository was created in September 2024, the first stable release shipped in April 2025, and development moves fast: 86 releases so far, 74 of them in the twelve months to September 2026, with v3.5.7 landing on September 6, 2026 alongside 1,610 GitHub stars and a claimed 2,000+ automated tests. The feature set covers companies, people, opportunities with custom pipeline stages and win/loss analysis, tasks, notes, and an activity log, on a customizable data model with 22 field types, conditional visibility, per-field encryption, and no schema migrations. AI is the pitch rather than an afterthought: a 37-tool MCP server at mcp.relaticle.com authenticates with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE or a personal access token, exposing search, fetch, and full create-read-update-delete across companies, people, opportunities, tasks, and notes to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients, with destructive actions gated behind approval cards and requests capped at 120 per minute. There is also Rela, a built-in chat interface that answers questions about your records with model choices and one-click undo on approved destructive actions. Developers get a REST API v1 with twelve paths and a published OpenAPI 3.1 spec at api.relaticle.com, plus CSV import up to 10,000 rows and 10MB per file with column mapping and record-ID matching for updates. The business model outgrew the original no-premium-tiers promise: self-hosting is still free with unlimited users, but the site now sells Cloud Pro at $19 per workspace per month with 2,000 AI credits and an Enterprise tier from $20,000 a year. Per-seat pricing never arrived. Requirements are PostgreSQL 17 and Redis 7, with no MySQL path documented.

AI Capabilities

• Native AI agent support
• 37-tool MCP server
• Built-in AI chat (Rela)

Key Integrations

How to install

1. Docker path: curl -o compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Relaticle/relaticle/main/compose.yml, then create a .env with a generated APP_KEY (echo 'APP_KEY=base64:$(openssl rand -base64 32)') and a DB_PASSWORD, then docker compose up -d. That pulls ghcr.io/relaticle/relaticle:latest plus postgres:17-alpine and redis:7-alpine, for five containers: app, horizon, scheduler, postgres, redis.
2. Create your first admin with docker compose exec app php artisan make:filament-user; the admin panel lives at {APP_URL}/app, and instance-level sysadmin access comes from php artisan sysadmin:create, served at /sysadmin.
3. From source: git clone https://github.com/Relaticle/relaticle.git, cd relaticle, then composer app-install, a composer script that runs composer install followed by php artisan relaticle:install.
4. Manual sequence from the self-hosting docs: composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader, pnpm install --frozen-lockfile && pnpm run build, cp .env.example .env, php artisan key:generate, php artisan migrate --force, php artisan storage:link, fix storage and bootstrap/cache permissions, then php artisan make:filament-user.
5. Upgrades on Docker are docker compose pull followed by docker compose up -d; the docs say migrations run automatically on startup.

Requirements

PHP 8.5 with the pdo_pgsql, gd, bcmath, mbstring, xml, and redis extensions, PostgreSQL 17 or newer, Redis 7 or newer, Node.js 22+, Composer 2+, and a web server with Supervisor for queues. MySQL is not a documented option; PostgreSQL is the only database in the docs. The Docker path needs only APP_KEY and DB_PASSWORD. MCP requests are capped at 120 per minute per authenticated user, and self-hosted AI credits default to the Free plan's 300 a month.

Best for

Laravel and Filament shops that want a CRM their developers can read, extend, and drive from agents: the 37-tool MCP server, REST API v1, and CSV import cover the programmatic paths, AGPL-3.0 keeps the code open, and self-hosting stays free with unlimited users and records.

Not for

Teams that need native connectors to email, Slack, or marketing tools: none are documented, only MCP, the REST API, and CSV. Also not for buyers who read AGPL-3.0 as a permissive license (offering Relaticle as a service triggers the source obligation), or who want MySQL instead of PostgreSQL 17 and Redis 7. Vendor support means the Enterprise tier, from $20,000 a year.

Review notes

Assessed from github.com/relaticle/relaticle, relaticle.com, and relaticle.com/docs in September 2026; we have not deployed an instance. The commit log is live (commits dated the day before we checked) and the release cadence is unusually high for a CRM in this bracket: 74 releases in the twelve months to September 2026, currently at v3.5.7.

Corrections against our earlier record. The stack is Laravel 13 with Filament 5, Livewire 4, and PHP 8.5, not Laravel 12 and Filament 3. Our description said the product had no AI features while our own tagline listed MCP tools; the tagline was closer, and understated, because the MCP server exposes 37 tools rather than 30 and there is a built-in chat assistant with approval cards. Stars moved from 1,470 to 1,610.

Two more corrections. The license is AGPL-3.0, so the free claim needs its condition attached: modifying and offering Relaticle as a service triggers the source obligation. And the no-premium-tiers promise is gone; the pricing page now sells Cloud Pro at $19 per workspace per month (14-day trial, no card) and Enterprise from $20,000 a year, though per-seat pricing never arrived and self-hosting remains free.

The self-hosting docs are the strongest part of the public surface: a five-container compose stack, a fully spelled-out manual install sequence, automatic migrations on startup, and a separate sysadmin panel at /sysadmin. The API surface is documented with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec covering twelve paths across companies, people, opportunities, tasks, notes, and custom fields, and the CSV importer documents match-on-ID updates rather than insert-only behavior.

No hosted demo exists, which tells you where the project is: the sitemap lists no demo page, and the closest public entry points are the hosted app at app.relaticle.com and the repository. Evaluation means cloning and installing.

Verdict

A fast-moving, agent-friendly Laravel CRM whose AI layer outgrew our old notes: free and capable self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, PostgreSQL-only, and no longer without paid tiers.

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