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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

MkDocs

MkDocs project (Tom Christie and contributors) · Documentation tooling

Python static site generator for project documentation that builds a navigable site from Markdown files and a single YAML configuration

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 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

MLX Whisper

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon

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

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

Neon

Neon (Databricks) · Relational databases

Serverless PostgreSQL service with separated storage and compute, instant database branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Neovim

Neovim project · IDEs & editors

Modal, terminal-based text editor forked from Vim with Lua configuration, a built-in LSP client and Tree-sitter parsing

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Next.js

Vercel · Web frameworks & UI

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React framework from Vercel for full-stack web applications with file-based routing, server components, server-side rendering, static generation and API route handlers

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-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

Node.js

OpenJS Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes

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Server-side JavaScript runtime built on the V8 engine, governed by the OpenJS Foundation, with npm as its package ecosystem

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

NumPy

NumPy developers (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing

Foundational Python library for n-dimensional arrays, vectorized math, linear algebra, random numbers and the array API used by the scientific stack

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

Observable

Observable, Inc. · Notebooks & interactive computing

JavaScript data notebooks and the open-source Observable Framework static-site generator for data apps, from the maintainers of D3 and Plot

ISCFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Odoo

Odoo S.A. · CRM & business operations

Modular open-source business suite (CRM, invoicing, accounting, inventory, website, HR) with an LGPL community edition and a hosted or licensed enterprise edition

LGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-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

Open MPI

Open MPI consortium · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source implementation of the MPI message-passing standard used to run tightly coupled parallel programs across the nodes of a cluster

BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPIOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

OpenAI Agents SDK

OpenAI · Agent frameworks & orchestration

Lightweight open-source Python and TypeScript framework for agents, handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing, defaulting to OpenAI's Responses API with adapters for other providers

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI · Coding agents & AI IDEs

OpenAI's coding agent: an open-source Rust terminal CLI plus IDE extension, desktop app and cloud agent, signed in with a ChatGPT plan or an API key

Apache-2.0PaidUsage-basedLocalNov 2, 2026

OpenAPI Specification

OpenAPI Initiative (Linux Foundation) · API development & tooling

Vendor-neutral, machine-readable standard for describing HTTP APIs in JSON or YAML, maintained by the OpenAPI Initiative under the Linux Foundation

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 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

OpenSSH

OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access

Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling

SSH-OpenSSHOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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