Technical shortlist

Open-source IT tools

Start with ownership: where the software runs, who patches it, how you recover it and whether the license covers the features your environment needs. This collection helps technical teams identify open-source candidates without treating a public repository as proof of production readiness.

For developers, platform engineers, SREs, sysadmins and security teams evaluating software they may need to operate themselves.

Lead with the workload

The decision to make

Shortlist by workload and failure mode first. Then compare release cadence, upgrade path, observability, backup support, authentication and the availability of commercial support.

Available profiles

100 matching tools

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ToolDeploymentSourceAPIPricing model
AirbyteSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
AnsibleSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
AnythingLLMSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
Apache SupersetSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedopen source
AppFlowySelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedfreemium
AppsmithSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
AppwriteSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailablefreemium
ArgoSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
AstroSee profileOpen sourceNot specifiedopen source
AtlantisSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedopen source
BudibaseSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
CapRoverSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedopen source
CassandraSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
CheckmateSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
ClickHouseSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedfreemium
CoolifySelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedfreemium
CrewAISelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
DagsterSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
dbtSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedfreemium
Dev.toSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailablefree
DifySelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
DockerSelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailablefreemium
DokploySelf-hostedOpen sourceAvailableopen source
DuckDBSelf-hostedOpen sourceNot specifiedopen source
CassandraDatabases

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, peer-to-peer NoSQL database that replicates data across nodes and datacenters with tunable consistency and no single point of failure.

Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
DagsterData Engineering

Dagster is an open-source Python orchestrator built around software-defined assets. Its creator, Dagster Labs (formerly Elementl), was acquired by Prefect in 2026; the open-source project keeps its license and Dagster+ continues unchanged for existing customers.

Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source