What is Gibbon?
A web-based educational management system where schools coordinate teaching and learning across multiple user roles—teachers, students, parents, and administrators—each with role-specific permissions and access levels.
Gibbon pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free and open-source core platform. Optional: Foundation Membership and Catalyst License.
Core Platform
FreeFree and open-source school management platform with comprehensive features for teaching, learning, and administration
- Calendar management
- Student alerts (automatic and manual)
- Timetable management
- Student profiles
- Academic/behavioral/medical/SEN alerts
- Customizable user access levels
- Help Desk module
- Trip Planner module
- Photo history
- Multi-language support (29 languages)
- Right-to-left text support
Foundation Membership
Contact salesAnnual membership supporting Gibbon development with access to three annual online meetings with developers and members
Catalyst License
Contact salesAdds access to Query Builder module with 90+ useful data analysis queries
What Gibbon does
The capabilities that matter for student information systems, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- On premise legacy
- Target market
- -
- Ed fi and oneroster standard compliance
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- Algorithmic master bell schedule builder
- -
- State and federal level compliance reporting export
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- Parent guardian mobile app portal
- -
- Financial aid and pell grant processing fafsa
- -
- Degree audit and graduation pathway tracking
- -
- Discipline and behavioral incident logging
- ✓
- Special education iep individualized program tracking
- -
- SOC2 type ii
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- Ferpa and coppa privacy compliance
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Gibbon alternatives
Other student information systems we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- FedenaCloud-based management system for schools and colleges to automate operations, reporting, and stakeholder communicationslow · 37%
- OpenSISStudent data management system for schoolslow · 40%
- JenzabarCloud-based management software for higher education institutions to centralize student data and streamline campus operationslow · 9%
Compare Gibbon
Side by side against other student information systems, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Gibbon, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 57 | 0.05 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.08 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 22 | 0.09 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Stars | 53 | 0.03 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 626 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Deployment model: on_premise_legacy · Discipline and behavioral incident logging: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | PHP | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |