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8 catalogue entries use this topic; each Project's license policy is labeled separately.

Supabase

SupabaseOpen

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

Stars108.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.

Alternative toFirebase
PocketBase

PocketBaseOpen

Open source backend in one file with realtime database and auth

Stars61.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

PocketBase is an open source backend with an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, auth, file storage, and an admin dashboard in one executable.

Appwrite

AppwriteAIOpen

Open source backend with auth, databases, and functions

Stars57.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Appwrite is an open source backend platform with auth, databases, storage, functions, and messaging for web and mobile apps.

Alternative toFirebaseSupabase
Trigger.dev

Trigger.devOpen

Open-source background jobs and durable AI workflows for TypeScript

Stars16.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building durable AI agents and background workflows in TypeScript, with retries, queues, and observability.

Alternative toInngest
Convex

Convex

Reactive backend with database, functions, and realtime sync

Stars12.6K
Commitjust now
LicenseFSL-1.1-Apache-2.0

Convex is a backend platform where the database, serverless functions, scheduling, and file storage arrive as one TypeScript-native system.

Alternative toFirebaseSupabase
Rivet

RivetOpen

Open-source orchestrator for agentic workloads and durable Actors

Stars6,275
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Rivet is a self-hostable orchestration platform that runs agentic workloads as durable Actors with state, realtime, and scheduling built in.

Alternative toInngest
soketi

soketi

Self-hosted, Pusher-compatible WebSockets server

Stars5,637
Commit1y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0-only

soketi is a self-hosted WebSockets server that implements the Pusher Protocol v7, so apps built on Pusher SDKs can switch hosts with only host and credential changes.

Alternative toFirecamp
Firebase

Firebase

Google's application backend for mobile and web

CompanyGoogle
Since2012
PricingFree

Firebase gets a product to users faster than almost anything else. Authentication, a realtime document database, storage, hosting, and functions arrive already wired together, with client SDKs that handle offline state.