State of Open SourceJuly 2026

TheCollection

684 hand-picked open-source projects. OSS has matured — production-grade, actively maintained, and ready to replace your SaaS stack.

Hand-curated · Not scraped25+ signals tracked per projectLast updated: 6 July 2026
64%
score Excellent health
83%
actively maintained
237
SaaS products with credible OSS alternatives
Combined Stars
0
Contributors
0
Total Commits
0
Forks
0
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Data Methodology
25+ signals
GitHub Activity
8 signals: stars, forks, commits, contributors, issues, watchers, size, branch
Language Stack
Full breakdown per project — avg 10 languages tracked, not just primary
Health Score
5 dimensions, 0–25 each: activity, maintenance, community, maturity, momentum
Technical Quality
5 AI-assessed dimensions, 0–100: architecture, code quality, innovation, learning curve
Release Cadence
Frequency, version history, latest release date and prerelease status
Editorial Layer
Hand-picked categories, SaaS alternatives, curated tagline and description
Deep dives:→ Why GitHub Stars Miss the Real Story of Project Health→ Beyond Stars: The Two Metrics That Signal Investment Quality
The Collection

684 projects, evaluated for quality. Here's what the landscape looks like.

00

Momentum

What's moving fastest in the OSS ecosystem right now.

01

Languages

avg 8.8 per project
01TypeScript
26439%
02Python
9113%
03Go
9013%
04Rust
568%
05JavaScript
487%
06PHP
345%
07C++
183%
08Ruby
142%
09Java
101%
10Vue
81%

Also appears in (secondary languages, ≥1% of codebase)

JavaScript236TypeScript173HTML141CSS128Python96Shell85SCSS60MDX50Vue47Rust42

Top 10

Most starred projects in our collection

1

n8n

195.2K59.1K704
195.2K
stars
2

claw-code

194.6K109.8K30
194.6K
stars
3

AutoGPT

185.4K46.1K827
185.4K
stars
4

OpenCode

182.4K22.6K972
182.4K
stars
5

Ollama

175.5K16.8K609
175.5K
stars
6

Langflow

151.2K9.4K358
151.2K
stars
7

Dify

147.7K23.3K1.4K
147.7K
stars
8

Firecrawl

144.5K8.3K162
144.5K
stars
9

Open WebUI

144.2K20.8K851
144.2K
stars
10

ComfyUI

119.4K14.0K323
119.4K
stars
02

By Category

Explore apps organized by use case and function. From AI agents to productivity tools, find what you need.

Categories
51total
Developer Tools
170
apps
170
AI Development
86
apps
86
Devops
78
apps
78
AI Agents
65
apps
65
Analytics58Automation53Monitoring53Databases49Security48Productivity46
AI Assistants45Data Engineering32AI Code Assistants31Design Tools29Collaboration29
Most appsFewer apps
03

Open Source Licenses

How projects choose to share their code. MIT leads the way with its permissive terms.

MIT License
185 apps
27%
Apache License 2.0
151 apps
22%
Custom / Unknown
146 apps
21%
GNU AGPLv3
18%
126 apps
GNU GPLv3
5%
37 apps
BSD-3-CLAUSE
2%
11 apps
MPL-2.0
1%
8 apps
GNU GPLv2
1%
4 apps
04

Project Vitals

Health scores and maintenance activity across the collection

Health Scores

Based on activity, community & maintenance

●436
Excellent
64%
●136
Good
20%
●89
Fair
13%
●23
Needs Work
3%

Activity Status

How actively maintained are these projects?

ActiveUpdated recently
571
ModerateRegular updates
38
LowOccasional updates
59
InactiveNo recent activity
14
Actively maintained89%

Health Score Breakdown

Average scores across 5 health dimensions (684 apps)

Development Activity
20/25
Maintenance
20/25
Community
16/25
Maturity
12/25
Momentum
10/25
05

Technical Quality

AI-assessed code quality across 684 projects

Average Overall
76/100
684
apps scored
Architecture
80
/100
Code Quality
74
/100
Innovation
81
/100
Learning Curve
69
/100

Highest Rated

Top projects by technical quality score

1

Grist

Arch 95Code 88Innov 88
93
/100
2

Godot Engine

Arch 93Code 82Innov 90
91
/100
3

Supabase

Arch 88Code 85Innov 90
91
/100
4

Bun

Arch 92Code 92Innov 88
91
/100
5

Grafana

Arch 88Code 92Innov 90
91
/100
6

marimo

Arch 92Code 88Innov 93
90.8
/100
7

GPT Researcher

Arch 88Code 82Innov 92
90.5
/100
8

ClickHouse

Arch 92Code 88Innov 95
90
/100
9

Argo Workflows

Arch 92Code 88Innov 90
90
/100
10

Coder

Arch 80Code 90Innov 90
90
/100
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06

Project Timeline

When these 682 projects were created (apps with known creation dates)

74%
created since 2020
2008(1)
2010(1)
2011(5)
2012(9)
2013(18)
2014(14)
2015(29)
2016(28)
2017(21)
2018(22)
2019(30)
2020(38)
2021(63)
2022(52)
2023(99)
99
2024(85)
2025(88)
2026(79)
20082026
Peak: 2023 (99 projects)
2020+
Before 2020
2023
99 projects
2025
88 projects
2024
85 projects
2026
79 projects
The Opportunity

OSS now covers the tools founders pay most for. Here's where the replacements exist.

07

Most Covered SaaS

SaaS products with the most open source coverage

01Cursor
17
17 alternatives
02Relevance AI
15
15 alternatives
03Datadog
14
14 alternatives
04Notion
13
13 alternatives
05Asana
11
11 alternatives
06Pinecone
10
10 alternatives
07Trello
10
10 alternatives
08OneNote
10
10 alternatives
09QuickBooks
10
10 alternatives
View all 237 alternatives
08

Where OSS Thrives

Categories with the best open source coverage

Developer Tools96 apps
97 SaaS
Productivity30 apps
48 SaaS
AI Development48 apps
45 SaaS
Analytics47 apps
45 SaaS
Automation30 apps
39 SaaS
AI Assistants37 apps
38 SaaS
Databases37 apps
33 SaaS
Devops36 apps
31 SaaS
AI Agents46 apps
29 SaaS
Collaboration25 apps
27 SaaS
These 10 categories cover432 SaaS products

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