The open source software roster.
A curated roster of open source applications — guides, comparisons, and how-tos in one place.
Tools
OpenClaw_
Self-hosted personal AI assistant on your everyday chat apps.
Hermes Agent_
Self-hosted personal AI assistant that learns and remembers.
OpenCode_
Open source terminal AI coding agent, any model.
Dify_
Build LLM apps and agents with RAG and LLMOps.
n8n_
Open source workflow automation — a Zapier alternative.
Supabase_
Open source Postgres backend — a Firebase alternative.
vLLM_
High-throughput LLM inference and serving on your own GPUs.
Ollama_
Run open source LLMs locally with one command.
Open WebUI_
Self-hosted AI chat UI for Ollama; a ChatGPT alternative.
Immich_
Self-hosted photo backup — a Google Photos alternative.
Grafana_
Open source observability dashboards — a Datadog alternative.
Apache Superset_
Open source business intelligence and dashboards — a Tableau alternative.
RAGFlow_
Self-hosted RAG engine with deep document parsing.
Uptime Kuma_
Self-hosted uptime monitoring, alerts, and status pages.
Langflow_
Visual, Python-native builder for LLM apps and agents.
OpenHands_
Open source AI software engineer — a Devin alternative.
Excalidraw_
Open source whiteboard — a Miro and FigJam alternative.
Strapi_
Open source headless CMS — a Contentful alternative.
DeerFlow_
ByteDance's self-hosted deep research agent framework.
OmniRoute_
Self-hosted AI gateway across 350+ LLM providers.
LiteLLM_
One OpenAI-compatible API in front of 100+ LLM providers.
LobeChat_
Self-hosted multi-model AI chat UI; a ChatGPT alternative.
Stirling-PDF_
Self-hosted PDF toolkit — an Adobe Acrobat alternative.
Odoo_
Open source ERP and business app suite, self-hosted.
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Alternatives
1Password_
Hosted password manager and secrets vault.
3Commas_
Hosted crypto trading bot platform.
500px_
Photography community and portfolio platform with paid membership tiers.
Ably_
Managed realtime pub/sub and edge messaging platform.
Acuity Scheduling_
Appointment booking with intake forms and payments, by Squarespace.
Adobe Acrobat_
Subscription PDF editor, converter, and e-sign suite.
Adobe Experience Manager_
Adobe's enterprise digital experience platform.
Adobe PDF Services_
Adobe's cloud API for creating and manipulating PDFs.
Adobe XD_
Adobe's UI/UX design and prototyping app.
ADP_
Enterprise payroll and HR outsourcing service, priced per employee per run.
Adyen_
Enterprise global payments platform.
Agora_
Pay-as-you-go real-time voice and video APIs.
Airtable_
Spreadsheet-database for apps and workflows.
Alation_
Enterprise data catalog and intelligence platform.
Algolia_
Managed search-as-a-service for site and app search.
Amazon Athena_
Serverless SQL queries over S3, billed per query
Amazon Bedrock_
AWS managed service for calling foundation models.
Amazon Bedrock Agents_
AWS managed service for building and running AI agents.
Amazon Cognito_
AWS user sign-up, sign-in, and access control.
Amazon ECR_
AWS's managed Elastic Container Registry.
Amazon Kendra_
Managed intelligent enterprise search from AWS.
Amazon Kinesis_
AWS's fully managed real-time data streaming service.
Amazon MSK_
AWS's fully managed Apache Kafka service.
Amazon Neptune_
AWS's fully managed graph database service