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Apache Kafka

Apache Software Foundation · Messaging & queues

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Distributed event streaming platform with durable, partitioned, replayable logs, Kafka Connect connectors and Kafka Streams processing

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox (Nick Sweeting and contributors) · Web archiving

Self-hosted, open-source web archiving tool that saves URLs as HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC, readable text and media snapshots with a web UI and CLI

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Caddy

Caddy project (sponsored by ZeroSSL) · Reverse proxies & web servers

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Go web server and reverse proxy that obtains and renews TLS certificates automatically and is configured with a short Caddyfile or a JSON API

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

ComfyUI

Comfy Org · Voice, vision & multimodal AI

Open-source node-based interface and inference engine for diffusion and other generative models (image, video, audio, 3D), runnable locally with desktop apps or as a hosted cloud

GPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Elasticsearch

Elastic N.V. · Vector databases

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Distributed search and analytics engine on Apache Lucene with full-text, aggregations, vector search and ES|QL; triple-licensed AGPL, SSPL and Elastic License

AGPL-3.0-only OR SSPL-1.0 OR Elastic-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Gitea

Gitea Ltd. / Gitea community · Version control & code hosting

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Lightweight self-hosted Git forge written in Go with repositories, pull requests, issues, packages and GitHub-compatible Actions, deployable as a single binary

MITOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Secrets management

Identity-based secrets manager providing encrypted key-value storage, dynamic database and cloud credentials, PKI and encryption-as-a-service, under the Business Source License

BUSL-1.1FreePaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch · API development & tooling

Open-source API client that runs in the browser or as a desktop app, supports REST, GraphQL and realtime protocols, and can be self-hosted for teams

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Keycloak

Keycloak project (CNCF incubating, originated at Red Hat) · Identity & access

Open-source identity and access management server providing single sign-on with OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML, user federation and fine-grained authorization

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Kubernetes

Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Containers & virtualization

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Open-source system for scheduling, scaling and operating containerized workloads across a cluster of machines

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LiteLLM

BerriAI · Prompting, evaluation & observability

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Open-source Python SDK and self-hosted AI gateway that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with routing, fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets, spend tracking and logging callbacks

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

Meilisearch

Meili SAS · Vector databases

Rust search engine for application search-as-you-type with typo tolerance, faceting and hybrid semantic search; MIT core plus BSL enterprise parts

MIT AND BUSL-1.1Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Metabase

Metabase, Inc. · BI & dashboards

Self-hostable BI tool with a no-code question builder, SQL editor, dashboards and embedding; AGPL open-source edition plus commercial Pro and Enterprise

AGPL-3.0Open sourceFreeSelf-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

MinIO (AIStor)

MinIO, Inc. · Backup & recovery

S3-compatible object storage server; the AGPL community edition was archived in April 2026 and succeeded by MinIO's AIStor Free and AIStor Enterprise editions

MixedFreeEnterpriseSelf-hostedRenamedBroken

MongoDB

MongoDB, Inc. · NoSQL & key-value stores

Document database storing BSON documents with a rich aggregation pipeline, available as a source-available Community Server or the managed Atlas service

SSPL-1.0FreeFreemiumSelf-hostedBroken

MySQL

Oracle · Relational databases

Oracle's widely deployed open-source relational database server, offered as a GPL community edition and commercial enterprise and cloud editions

GPL-2.0-only WITH Universal-FOSS-exception-1.0Open 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

NGINX

F5, Inc. · Reverse proxies & web servers

Event-driven HTTP server, reverse proxy, load balancer and mail proxy, distributed as open source under the 2-clause BSD license with a commercial Plus edition

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedBroken

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

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

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

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