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Firecrawl

FirecrawlAIOpen

Turn any website into clean, model-ready data

Stars174.9K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Firecrawl handles the unglamorous part of feeding the web to a language model: rendering JavaScript, following pagination, stripping navigation and cookie banners, and returning markdown or structured JSON that a model can actually use.

Alternative toBrowserbase
NocoDB

NocoDB

No-code spreadsheet interface over your own database

Stars65.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseSustainable Use License

NocoDB is a no-code database platform with a spreadsheet interface that connects to the operator's own Postgres or MySQL database or runs on its hosted database at million-row scale.

Alternative toBaserowAirtable
Meilisearch

MeilisearchOpen

Typo-tolerant search that is fast to run and fast to tune

Stars52.3K
Commit1d ago
LicenseMIT

Meilisearch is a search engine you can be productive with in an afternoon. Indexing is a POST, relevance is tuned through an ordered list of ranking rules, and results come back typo-tolerant by default.

Alternative toAlgolia
Discourse

Discourse

Open-source community platform for discussion, chat, and support

Stars47.9K
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-2.0

Discourse is a self-hosted community platform that combines threaded discussion with built-in chat, search, and moderation tools.

Alternative toSlackDiscord
Hyperswitch

HyperswitchOpen

Open-source payment switch unifying 270+ processors behind one integration

Stars45.3K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Hyperswitch is an open-source payment switch that routes transactions across 270+ processors from one integration, with vault, 3DS, retries, and reconciliation.

Alternative toLago
Directus

Directus

A content platform that wraps your existing SQL database

Stars30.8K
Commit1d ago
LicenseBUSL-1.1

Directus points at a SQL database you already have and generates an admin interface and an API over it, without imposing its own schema. Existing tables keep their names, types, and constraints.

Alternative toContentfulAirtable
AITable

AITableAIOpen

Visual database that turns tables into collaborative apps and automations

Stars15.6K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

AITable is a self-hosted visual database that pairs a spreadsheet interface with grid, gallery, kanban, calendar, and Gantt views plus a REST API.

Alternative toAirtable
LanguageTool

LanguageTool

Open-source grammar checker for 30-plus languages, in the browser or self-hosted

Stars15.1K
Commitjust now
LicenseLGPL-2.1

LanguageTool is an open-source grammar, spelling, and style checker for 30-plus languages, free in the browser with an optional self-hosted server.

Alternative toHarper
Lago

LagoOpen

Open-source usage-based billing with metering, invoicing, and entitlements

Stars10.7K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Lago is an open-source billing platform for usage-based, subscription, and hybrid pricing, with metering, invoicing, and payment orchestration behind one API.

Alternative toAutumn
Polar

PolarOpen

Open-source billing platform and merchant of record for SaaS

Stars10.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Polar is an open-source billing platform and merchant of record for digital products and SaaS, combining usage billing, subscriptions, and global tax handling.

Alternative toLago
Crater

CraterAIOpen

Self-hosted invoicing with estimates, expenses, payments, and APIs

Stars8,349
Commit2y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Crater is a self-hosted invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses with estimates, invoices, payments, and expense tracking.

Alternative toQuickBooks Online
Papra

PapraOpen

Open-source document archiving with search, tags, and email ingestion

Stars5,558
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Papra is an open-source document archiving platform that organizes files with tags, full-text search, and email ingestion, self-hosted or in the cloud.

Alternative toNextcloud
Kener

KenerOpen

Self-hosted status pages with uptime monitoring and incident tools

Stars5,199
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Kener is a free, self-hosted status page and uptime monitor with incident timelines, maintenance windows, and subscriber notifications in one Docker deployment.

ACI.dev

ACI.devAIOpen

Open-source platform connecting AI agents to 600+ tools via MCP

Stars4,906
Commit3mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0

ACI.dev is an open-source tool-calling platform that connects AI agents to 600+ applications through direct function calls or a unified MCP server.

Alternative ton8n
Wakapi

WakapiOpen

Self-hosted, open-source backend that turns WakaTime heartbeats into coding statistics.

Stars4,448
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Wakapi is a free, open-source, self-hosted service that turns WakaTime editor heartbeats into coding statistics and dashboards.

Alternative toHackatime
Grida

GridaOpen

Open-source design canvas with forms and database

Stars2,665
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Grida is an open-source design platform that pairs a Figma-style vector canvas with customer-facing forms, a Postgres-backed database, and a content backend for designers and frontend developers.

Alternative toFigma
Paymenter

PaymenterOpen

Self-hosted open-source billing and invoicing for hosting providers

Stars2,546
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Paymenter is a self-hosted open-source billing platform for hosting providers, automating subscriptions, invoicing, and service provisioning.

Alternative toInvoice Ninja
OpenMeter

OpenMeterOpen

Open-source usage metering and billing for AI and API products

Stars2,377
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

OpenMeter is an open-source usage-metering and billing platform for AI and API products, turning CloudEvents usage data into entitlements, Stripe invoices, and credit grants.

Alternative toLago
SeekStorm

SeekStormAIOpen

Sub-millisecond vector and full-text search in Rust

Stars1,919
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

SeekStorm is an open-source vector and lexical search engine in Rust, shipped as an in-process library and a multi-tenant server with a REST API.

Alternative toMeilisearch
Hook0

Hook0

Open-source webhook server with HMAC signatures and EU hosting

Stars1,494
Commitjust now
LicenseSSPL-1.0

Hook0 is an open-source webhooks server that lets SaaS teams send event notifications to their customers' applications through a JSON REST API and management dashboard.

Alternative toApache Kafka
Meteroid

MeteroidOpen

Open-source usage-based billing with metering, plans, and invoicing

Stars1,323
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Meteroid is an open-source pricing and billing platform for SaaS, infrastructure, and AI companies, combining usage metering, plan management, subscriptions, and invoicing behind one API.

Alternative toLago
ProcessWire

ProcessWireOpen

Self-hosted open source CMS and framework with custom fields and a fluent PHP API

Stars1,157
Commitjust now
LicenseMPL-2.0

ProcessWire is a self-hosted open source CMS and PHP framework with custom fields, a page-tree admin, and a fluent API for original site builds.

Alternative toDrupal
Keyshade

KeyshadeOpen

Open source secret and configuration management for developers

Stars770
Commit5mo ago
LicenseMPL-2.0

Keyshade is an open source secret and configuration management platform where developers sync variables and secrets from one dashboard into their projects.

Alternative toInfisical
Formance

FormanceOpen

Open-source programmable ledger for tracking money movement

Stars527
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Formance is an open-source programmable ledger for tracking money movement, built on double-entry accounting and the Numscript transaction language.

Alternative toLago
ClearFlask

ClearFlaskOpen

Open-source feedback boards with voting, roadmaps, and announcements

Stars451
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

ClearFlask is an open-source feedback platform where customers post ideas, vote on features, and follow a public roadmap and release announcements.

Alternative toTrelloJira
Hackatime

HackatimeOpen

Free open-source dashboard that turns editor heartbeats into coding stats.

Stars214
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Hackatime is a free open-source coding time tracker by Hack Club that turns editor activity into dashboards and leaderboards.

Alternative toActivityWatch
Formizee

FormizeeOpen

Open-source forms platform with analytics, API, and self-hosting

Stars184
Commit1y ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Formizee is an open-source forms platform for designing forms, collecting submissions through an endpoint URL, and viewing realtime analytics.

Alternative toTypeformFormbricks
Prismical

PrismicalAIOpen

Free open-source AI note taker with bot-free meeting transcription

Stars102
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Prismical is a free, open-source AI note taker that transcribes meetings, lectures, and voice notes with local AI and no call bots.

Alternative toMinutesAnarlogMeetily
Algolia

Algolia

Hosted search with millisecond responses and ranking control

CompanyAlgolia
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Algolia is search as a managed service, tuned so hard for latency that typing into a search box feels like filtering a local list. Typo tolerance, synonyms, and merchandising rules are all configurable without touching the index code.

Contentful

Contentful

Headless content management delivered over APIs

CompanyContentful
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Contentful separated content from presentation properly and early. Editors work with structured content models, and any number of front ends consume the same entries through an API.

SendGrid

SendGrid

Transactional and marketing email delivery

CompanyTwilio
Since2009
PricingFreemium

SendGrid handles the part of email nobody wants to own: reputation, authentication, bounce processing, and the endless negotiation with inbox providers about whether your mail is wanted.

Alternative toTwilio
Twilio

Twilio

APIs for SMS, voice, and verification at scale

CompanyTwilio
Since2008
PricingPaid

Twilio turned telecommunications into an HTTP request, and the abstraction held. Sending a message to a phone anywhere in the world became a few lines of code rather than a carrier negotiation.