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85 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.

Showing 49–72 of 85

  • Nix logo

    Nix

    Purely functional package manager and the NixOS distribution built on it, for byte-reproducible environments

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    7 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Nixpacks logo

    Nixpacks

    Build system that turns a source directory into an OCI image, now in maintenance mode

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • API
    • +1

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Notepad++ logo

    Notepad++

    Free, lightweight source code and text editor for Windows

    Free
    • Windows

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Nx Cloud logo

    Nx Cloud

    Distributed CI and remote caching for monorepo teams

    Free plan, then $29/mo
    • Web

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Octopus Deploy logo

    Octopus Deploy

    Continuous delivery and runbook automation for releases

    Free

    4 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Okteto logo

    Okteto

    Runs production-like development environments on your own Kubernetes cluster

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +3
    9 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Ona (formerly Gitpod) logo

    Ona (formerly Gitpod)

    Cloud development environments repositioned as a control plane for software engineering agents

    Free plan, then $20/mo
    • Web
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • +1
    8 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • OpsLevel logo

    OpsLevel

    Internal developer portal that scores service ownership and production readiness

    Pricing on request
    • Web
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Pants Build logo

    Pants Build

    Fast, scalable build system with intelligent defaults for Python and more

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • P

    PartyKit

    Platform for building and deploying realtime multiplayer servers on the edge

    Free plan available
    • Web
    • API

    2 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Penpot logo

    Penpot

    Open source design and prototyping platform

    Free
    • Web
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • PhpStorm logo

    PhpStorm

    JetBrains IDE for PHP web development

    From $24/mo
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Pieces for Developers logo

    Pieces for Developers

    AI-powered memory layer that captures and organizes developer work

    Free plan, then $18.99/mo
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • pnpm logo

    pnpm

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • RAD Studio logo

    RAD Studio

    Cross-platform native app development with Delphi and C++Builder

    From $2,000 one-off

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Refact logo

    Refact

    Autonomous AI coding agent for development tasks

    Free plan, then $10/mo
    • Web

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Restate logo

    Restate

    Durable execution engine in Rust with a free tier and low-latency workflows

    Free plan, then $300/mo
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Web
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • RubyMine logo

    RubyMine

    JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails development

    From $24/mo
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Rust logo

    Rust

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software

    Free
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS

    4 alternatives · 2 questions answered

  • Soketi logo

    Soketi

    Self-hosted, Pusher-compatible WebSockets server with a stalled maintenance record

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    10 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • SonarQube logo

    SonarQube

    Code quality and code security for clean code, at every step

    Free plan, then $34/mo

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Sourcegraph logo

    Sourcegraph

    Code search and intelligence platform for large codebases with Cody AI assistant

    From $16,000/yr
    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    6 integrations

    4 alternatives · 4 limitations documented

  • Spacelift logo

    Spacelift

    Infrastructure-as-code orchestration for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi and Kubernetes

    Free
    • Web
    • Self-hosted
    8 integrations

    3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

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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.

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Not to be listed. A vendor can buy a place in the results on the home page, on a category listing or on the catalogue, and where they do the result carries a Sponsored label. Everything not carrying that label is ordered on the same criteria as everything else, and a paid place never changes where an unpaid one lands: the editorial order flows around it. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

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