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25 companies in this category

Market:$32.95 billion (open-source services, 2024)
Growth:18% CAGR through 2028
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Ansible

API/Integration Platforms
B2bAutomationOpen Source

Ansible is an open-source automation platform that simplifies IT infrastructure management, application deployment, and configuration management through agentless, declarative automation. The tool ser

Updated 12/2/2025

Apache Cassandra

Data & Analytics
B2bOpen SourceEnterpriseGlobal

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed NoSQL database management system designed for handling massive amounts of structured data across commodity servers, offering high availability, fault tol

Updated 3/29/2026

Apache CouchDB

Data & Analytics
B2bOpen SourceGlobal

Apache CouchDB is a free, open-source document-oriented NoSQL database — managed by the Apache Software Foundation — storing data as JSON documents, using HTTP/REST as its native API, and employing Ja

Updated 3/29/2026

Cal.com

Productivity & Collaboration
AutomationB2bGlobalOpen SourceSaas

Cal.com is the leading open-source scheduling infrastructure platform, enabling businesses and developers to build appointment booking and calendar management into any application. Founded in 2021 and

Updated 3/29/2026

Dagster

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceCloud NativeAutomation

Dagster is an open-source data orchestration and pipeline development platform that reimagines how data pipelines are built by modeling data assets (tables, ML models, reports) explicitly rather than

Updated 3/29/2026

dbt Labs

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceAnalyticsData Warehouse

dbt Labs develops dbt (data build tool), an open-source software platform that enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouses using SQL-based modeling and version control. T

Updated 12/2/2025

Excalidraw

Productivity & Collaboration
B2bCollaborationOpen SourceProductivitySaas

Excalidraw is an open-source virtual whiteboard application for creating hand-drawn-aesthetic diagrams, flowcharts, wireframes, and collaborative sketches — built by Excalidraw s.r.o. in Brno, Czech R

Updated 3/29/2026

Fauna

Technology
B2bData WarehouseOpen SourcePlatformSaas

Fauna, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based serverless distributed database company — venture-backed private company — that developed FaunaDB (now branded Fauna), a globally distributed ACID-comp

Updated 3/29/2026

Hugging Face

AI & Machine Learning
B2bAi PoweredPlatformOpen SourceUnicornDeveloper ToolsApi First

Hugging Face is the leading AI model hosting and collaboration platform and the creator of the Transformers library — providing open-source infrastructure for sharing, discovering, and deploying machi

Updated 3/29/2026

Jenkins

DevOps
B2bSaasAutomationOpen Source

Jenkins is an open-source automation server that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software through continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. The company serves software de

Updated 12/2/2025

Kubernetes

DevOps
B2bPlatformCloud NativeOpen Source

Kubernetes (K8s) is the dominant open-source container orchestration platform — originally developed by Google engineers (Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, Craig McLuckie) in 2014, donated to the Cloud Native

Updated 3/29/2026

Mattermost

Productivity & Collaboration
B2bCollaborationEnterpriseMessagingOpen SourceSaasStartup

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable team messaging and collaboration platform built for security-conscious enterprises, government agencies, and development teams that cannot or will not use c

Updated 3/29/2026

Metabase

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceAnalytics

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence and analytics platform that enables anyone in an organization — not just data analysts — to query databases, create charts, and build dashboards throug

Updated 3/29/2026

Mistral AI

AI & Machine Learning
B2bAi PoweredApi FirstUnicornEuropeOpen SourceDeveloper Tools

Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company building and commercializing high-performance open and proprietary large language models, positioning itself as Europe's leading AI foundation mo

Updated 3/29/2026

Moodle

Education
B2bOpen SourceEdtechGlobal

Moodle is the world's most widely-used open-source learning management system — providing educational institutions, corporations, and government organizations with a free, customizable platform for on

Updated 3/29/2026

Prebid

Data & Analytics
B2bOpen SourceAdtechGlobal

Prebid is an open-source header bidding framework and industry consortium that enables digital publishers to run fair, transparent programmatic advertising auctions — allowing publishers to solicit bi

Updated 3/29/2026

Prefect

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceAutomation

Prefect is a San Francisco-based Python workflow orchestration platform — backed with $46.1 million in total funding from Atreides Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Positive Sum, and Calm Venture

Updated 3/29/2026

Prometheus

IT Operations & Observability
B2bInfrastructureOpen Source

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit — originally developed at SoundCloud in 2012 and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2016, where it became t

Updated 3/29/2026

Redis

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceEnterprise

Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine, and the company Redis Ltd. provides enterprise-grade Redis products and cloud h

Updated 3/29/2026

RudderStack

Data & Analytics
B2bSaasOpen SourceCloud NativeData Warehouse

RudderStack is a San Francisco-based warehouse-native customer data platform (CDP) enabling companies to collect, transform, and route real-time customer event data while maintaining full data ownersh

Updated 3/29/2026

Storyboarder

Entertainment
B2bPlatformMediaOpen SourceStartup

Storyboarder is an open-source storyboarding software application developed by Wonder Unit that helps filmmakers, animators, and video creators quickly visualize their stories through sketched boards,

Updated 3/29/2026

Terraform

DevOps
B2bSaasAutomationCloud NativeOpen Source

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code tool developed by HashiCorp that enables developers and operations teams to define, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure through declarative co

Updated 11/21/2025

Travis CI

Developer Tools & Platforms
B2bSaasAutomationOpen Source

Travis CI is a Berlin-based continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform — one of the original cloud-based CI services for open-source projects (founded 2011) — providing automated

Updated 3/29/2026

Twenty

Sales & Revenue Operations
B2bCrmOpen SourcePlatformSaasStartup

Twenty is a Paris, France-based open-source CRM company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $5.5 million in total funding including a $5 million seed round in November 2024 led by Runa Capital with 50

Updated 3/29/2026

Vocode

Communications
B2bCommunicationAi PoweredDeveloper ToolsOpen SourceStartupNorth America

Vocode is a San Francisco-based open-source voice AI company providing a developer library and platform for building real-time conversational voice applications — enabling developers to create AI voic

Updated 3/29/2026

About Open Source

Open-source software makes source code freely available for anyone to inspect, modify, and distribute, fostering collaborative development and transparent innovation. This model contrasts sharply with proprietary software where code remains locked behind corporate walls. Open-source projects range from foundational infrastructure like Linux and Kubernetes to developer tools like VS Code and databases like PostgreSQL. The philosophy emphasizes community contribution, peer review, and collective ownership over technology that powers much of the modern internet. The open-source movement has evolved from a grassroots developer culture into a sophisticated ecosystem with established governance models, sustainable funding mechanisms, and enterprise adoption. Major technology companies now actively contribute to and maintain open-source projects, recognizing that collaborative development often produces more robust, secure, and innovative solutions than closed alternatives. The model also enables faster innovation cycles, reduces vendor lock-in, and creates opportunities for developers worldwide to contribute to impactful projects regardless of their employment status. Commercial success in open-source has taken many forms, from support and services models (Red Hat) to open-core approaches where base functionality is free but advanced features require payment (GitLab, Elastic). Cloud providers have created tension by offering managed services of open-source software, leading to license innovations like the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and Business Source License (BSL). Despite ongoing debates about sustainability and fair value capture, open-source continues to be the foundation of modern software infrastructure, with over 90% of enterprise applications containing open-source components.

Key Players

Red HatGitLabAutomatticElasticHashiCorp

Market Overview

Open-source software has become foundational to the global technology infrastructure, with Linux powering over 90% of cloud infrastructure and web servers. The open-source services market, encompassing support, training, and integration, continues to grow as enterprises increase adoption. GitHub hosts over 100 million developers collaborating on open-source projects, while the Cloud Native Computing Foundation oversees hundreds of projects that form the backbone of modern cloud architecture.

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