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134 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

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  • Payload CMS logo

    Payload CMS

    API Management

    Modern TypeScript-first headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs

    • API
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • P

    PHP

    WEB Development

    A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development

    FreeResearched
  • Playwright logo

    Playwright

    Testing QA

    Open-source web automation framework for testing and scripting across browsers

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    FreeResearched
  • Postgres logo

    Postgres

    Technology

    The world's most advanced open source database

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • PrestaShop logo

    PrestaShop

    E Commerce Retail

    Open-source ecommerce platform for online merchants

    • Web
    FreeResearched
  • Prisma logo

    Prisma

    API Management

    Modern ORM and API client for Node.js and TypeScript

    • API
    FreeResearched
  • Prometheus logo

    Prometheus

    Network Connectivity

    Open source monitoring and alerting toolkit for cloud native environments

    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    FreeResearched
  • Feature-rich 3D printing slicer

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    FreeResearched
  • Puppet logo

    Puppet

    Cloud Infrastructure

    Infrastructure automation for enterprises

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • API
    FreeResearched
  • Python logo

    Python

    Data Science

    Programming language that lets you work quickly

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    • Android
    • +1
    FreeResearched
  • Q

    Quelea

    Church Religious

    Simple free presentation software for churches and worship

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    FreeResearched
  • QuestDB logo

    QuestDB

    Database Data Management

    Fast open source time-series database for high throughput ingestion

    • Self-hosted
    • Web
    FreeResearched
  • Rasa logo

    Rasa

    Live Chat Chatbots

    Open-source framework for building conversational AI

    • Self-hosted
    • Web
    FreeResearched
  • R

    Ruby on Rails

    WEB Development

    A full-stack framework for building web applications

    FreeResearched
  • Rust logo

    Rust

    Systems Programming

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS
    FreeResearched
  • S

    Sass

    WEB Development

    CSS with superpowers

    FreeResearched
  • S

    Spring Boot

    WEB Development

    Stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications that you can just run

    FreeResearched
  • Spring Cloud Gateway logo

    Spring Cloud Gateway

    API Management

    API gateway built on Project Reactor for building microservices

    • API
    FreeResearched
  • SQLite logo

    SQLite

    Database Data Management

    Small, fast, self-contained SQL database engine

    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • iOS
    • +1
    FreeResearched
  • Strapi logo

    Strapi

    API Management

    Headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs

    • API
    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    FreeResearched
  • S

    Svelte

    WEB Development

    A love letter to web development

    FreeResearched
  • T

    Tasmota

    IOT Smart Home

    Open-source firmware for ESP8266/ESP32 based devices

    FreeResearched
  • Telegraf logo

    Telegraf

    LOG Management

    The Plugin-Driven Server Agent for Collecting and Reporting Metrics

    • Web
    • API
    FreeResearched
  • T

    TensorBoard

    Machine Learning Data Science

    TensorFlow's visualization toolkit

    FreeResearched

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Where does this data come from?

Pricing, platforms and feature lists are taken from each vendor's own pages. Limitations, answered questions and alternatives are researched separately and carry a source URL on the page that states them. Every product is described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Why are there no star ratings?

Because we did not collect any. Softwr hosts no reviews, and a rating aggregated from somewhere else is not ours to publish as though it were an assessment we made. What is shown instead is what a tool costs, where it runs, and what it is concretely bad at.

How are alternatives chosen?

A researcher proposes them, then two independent reviewers judge one question each: would a buyer evaluating this product seriously consider that one instead. 225 of 1,841 candidates failed and were deleted, including a font inspector matched to a dark mode extension. Only pairings that survived both rounds are published.

Do vendors pay to appear here?

Not to be listed, and not to rank. Every position and filter result on this page is unpaid. A vendor can buy the sponsored panel above the results, which is labelled as such and sits outside the list rather than at the top of it: remove it and this page shows the same products in the same order. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

How current is it?

Prices and plan limits move without notice, so treat anything with a number on it as a starting point and check the vendor before you buy. Where a claim could go stale it carries the source it came from, which is the fastest way to tell.