About Opensaurus
Opensaurus helps you find open-source software you can run yourself, and tells you plainly what you are signing up for: who still maintains it, what its license really allows, and how much work it takes to run.
What we do
The catalog lists 220 open-source projects in 12 categories, from workflow automation to web analytics. Every project page is built from the project’s own GitHub repository and refreshed every day.
Popularity alone says little about whether a project is safe to adopt. Repositories go quiet, licenses change after years of open development, and some projects keep their best features behind a commercial license in the same repository. We put those facts next to each other, so you can compare projects before you invest time in one.
- Health score
- Activity, contributors, releases and replies to issues, as a score from 0 to 100 with a status: active, slowing, abandoned or archived.
- License reading
- Whether the license is OSI open source, source-available or fair-code; paid parts inside the repository; contributor agreements; and every license change we can find in the repository’s history.
- Setup
- Docker, Helm charts and ready-made builds, and an effort rating from the compose file a self-hoster would use.
How pages are made
Facts on a page come from public repository data, collected and analyzed automatically every day. People choose the categories, the projects in them and some of the alternatives.
The short guide on each project and category page is drafted with AI from the project’s README and our data, then checked automatically against that data before it is published; texts a person has rewritten are signed by the editors. Nothing on a page is written by a project’s maintainers.
How the site is funded
Opensaurus is paid for by labeled placements, such as a sponsored project of the week, and by partner links to hosting and services. Paid placements are marked Sponsored or Featured, and partner links carry rel="sponsored".
Money never changes a health score, a fact on a project page, or the order of any list. A project cannot pay to remove a license warning or a low score.
Contact
- Corrections
- Found a wrong fact? Send the page and what is wrong. When the error comes from how we read the data, we fix the method for every project. How corrections work
- Maintainers
- Claim your project, add a facts badge to your README, or ask about a featured placement. For maintainers
- hello@opensaurus.org
- Operator
- Opensaurus, Poland. Privacy