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Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (originated by Anthropic) · Agent frameworks & orchestration

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Open JSON-RPC standard for connecting AI applications to tools, data and prompts through servers, now stewarded under the Linux Foundation with SDKs in many languages

Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

ngrok

ngrok, Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

Hosted ingress service that exposes local servers through public URLs via an agent or SDK, with Traffic Policy rules, API gateway features and reserved domains

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

PM2

Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning

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Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Podman

Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization

Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Global Development Group · Relational databases

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Open-source object-relational database server with a large extension ecosystem (PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB) and broad SQL coverage

PostgreSQLOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

Prefect

Prefect Technologies, Inc. · ETL/ELT & orchestration

Python workflow orchestration library and server where decorated functions become observable, retryable flows, with Prefect Cloud as hosted option

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedRedirected

Qdrant

Qdrant Solutions GmbH · Vector databases

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Open-source vector search engine written in Rust with filterable HNSW indexes, sparse and multi-vector support, REST/gRPC APIs and a managed cloud

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

QuantConnect

QuantConnect Corporation · Financial analysis & investing

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Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Ray

Ray project (Anyscale and contributors) · Distributed & parallel computing

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Open-source Python framework for distributing tasks, actors and ML workloads across a cluster, with libraries for data processing, training, tuning, serving and reinforcement learning

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

rclone

rclone project (Nick Craig-Wood) · Backup & recovery

Command-line program to sync, copy, mount and serve files across dozens of cloud storage providers and protocols, with optional client-side encryption

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

Tableau

Salesforce · BI & dashboards

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Tailscale

Tailscale Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

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WireGuard-based mesh overlay network with a hosted coordination service, identity-provider login, access policies, MagicDNS and features such as Tailscale SSH, Serve and Funnel

BSD-3-ClauseFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Terraform

HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Infrastructure & provisioning

Infrastructure-as-code tool that provisions cloud and SaaS resources from HCL configurations through a plan-and-apply workflow, licensed under BSL 1.1

BUSL-1.1FreePaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Unsloth

Unsloth AI · Training & fine-tuning

Open-source framework for fine-tuning and running LLMs with reduced memory, covering LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning and RL, GGUF export, Dynamic quantizations and a local Studio/Desktop UI

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Web Authentication (WebAuthn)

W3C Web Authentication Working Group (with the FIDO Alliance) · Identity & access

W3C standard defining the browser API for creating and using public-key credentials, the basis of passkeys and FIDO2 hardware-key authentication

Open sourceFreeLocalBroken

Zotero

Corporation for Digital Scholarship · Citation management

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Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

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