State of Open SourceAugust 2026

TheCollection

702 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: 19 August 2026
65%
score Excellent health
83%
actively maintained
237
SaaS products with credible OSS alternatives
Combined Stars
14.4M
Contributors
155.8K
Total Commits
6.7M
Forks
1.9M
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The Catalog

702 apps across 51 categories, in whatever language and license fit the project.

Languages
TypeScript38%Python14%Go13%Rust8%JavaScript7%Other20%
Licenses
27%
ship under MIT License — the rest split across 7 other licenses
Apache License 2.0
23% · 161 apps
Custom / Unknown
21% · 148 apps
GNU AGPLv3
18% · 126 apps
GNU GPLv3
5% · 38 apps
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Project Vitals

Every app scored three independent ways, plus how actively it's maintained — across the whole collection.

Repo Health
Excellent459Good134Fair79Needs Work30
Technical Score
Excellent313Good349Fair33Needs Work7
Dependency Health
Excellent43Good604Fair5Needs Work50
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