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Let's Encrypt

Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) · DNS & domains

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Nonprofit certificate authority that issues free, automatically renewable TLS certificates through the ACME protocol

MPL-2.0FreeNov 2, 2026

llama.cpp

ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving

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C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex, Inc. · Agent frameworks & orchestration

Open-source Python framework for retrieval-augmented agents over your data, with connectors, indexes, query engines and event-driven workflows, alongside the commercial LlamaParse document platform

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Milvus

Zilliz / LF AI & Data Foundation · Vector databases

Open-source vector database from Zilliz with Lite, Standalone and Distributed deployments, many index types and GPU acceleration

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

MLX LM

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

Moodle

Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle HQ) · Collaboration & communication

Open-source learning management system used by universities and schools for courses, assignments, quizzes, grading and forums, self-hosted or via MoodleCloud

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

NATS

NATS project (CNCF; maintained principally by Synadia) · Messaging & queues

Lightweight Go messaging system with core pub/sub and request-reply plus JetStream persistence, key-value and object stores; a CNCF project

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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

OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

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Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot

Open sourceFreeFreemiumBroken

OpenSearch

OpenSearch Software Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Vector databases

Apache-2.0 search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana, governed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap Foundation · GIS & mapping

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Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts

ODbL-1.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

ORCID

ORCID, Inc. · Research dissemination

Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file

Open sourceFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

OSF (Open Science Framework)

Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software

Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers

Apache-2.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Overpass API

Roland Olbricht and the OpenStreetMap community · GIS & mapping

Read-only query service for OpenStreetMap data using the Overpass QL language, available on public instances or self-hosted

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

pgvector

Andrew Kane (pgvector project) · Vector databases

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PostgreSQL extension adding vector types, distance operators and HNSW/IVFFlat indexes for similarity search inside the database

PostgreSQLOpen sourceFreeSelf-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

Prometheus

Prometheus Authors / Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Monitoring & observability

Pull-based metrics monitoring system and time-series database with the PromQL query language, service discovery and the Alertmanager component

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

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

RabbitMQ

Broadcom · Messaging & queues

Open-source message broker in Erlang supporting AMQP 0-9-1 and 1.0, MQTT, STOMP and Streams, with routing, acknowledgements and quorum queues

MPL-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 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

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