Linkwarden — system requirements

Self-hosted bookmark manager, read-it-later, and web archiving tool. · website · repository

Recommended RAM

4 GB

“**Memory:** 4 GB is a comfortable starting point.”

Scope: General installation — docs now publish a formal "Hardware Requirements" list under the Installation heading (rewritten since 2026-08-09; the prior anecdotal "tested on a VPS" prose is gone), before official docs branch into Docker Compose vs Manual Installation · official source · retrieved 2026-08-24

No official figure published for: minimum RAM, minimum CPU cores, recommended CPU cores

Only the anecdotal 4GB figure above is published (as ram_rec_mb); no formal minimum RAM and no CPU core-count figure exists anywhere in official docs.

We publish nothing we can't source. Evidence of the gap.

External services

postgresql (required) — source
meilisearch (required) — source

Container

Image: ghcr.io/linkwarden/linkwarden:latest · compressed size (amd64): 499 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64 · source, retrieved 2026-08-24

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