A curated list of awesome companies that offer their tools and services for free to Open Source and public projects.
Note: While there are many companies that have great free tiers (Slack, for example), this list focuses specifically on organizations that have made an overt commitment to the Open Source community through additional offerings.
requires-approval
- Deployment automation.requires-approval
- Exception tracking and reporting.requires-approval
non-commercial
- Exception and uptime monitoring for Ruby.requires-approval
- NuGet, npm, Bower, Maven, and Vsix package hosting.requires-approval
- Maven, RPM, DEB, PyPi, and RubyGem hosting.requires-approval
- Automated website monitoring.requires-approval
- Cron job monitoring.requires-approval
- Localization management platform.requires-approval
- Translation management.requires-approval
- Localization and Translation Software Tool.requires-approval
- Localization management platform.requires-approval
- Localization platform for translating digital content.requires-approval
- Web-based continuous localization.requires-approval
- Distributed Git project hosting.requires-approval
Search as a service API.requires-approval
- API design, development, and documentation platform.requires-approval
- Productivity tools for teams (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, HipChat).requires-approval
- SSO & token-based authentication.requires-approval
- Cross-browser testing tool.requires-approval
- Self-hosted remote access built on WireGuard.requires-approval
- SSL certificates for open source projects.requires-approval
- Collaborative team email inboxes.requires-approval
non-commercial
- Software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools.requires-approval
- Authentication and SSO Made Simple.requires-approval
- Mailing lists for distributed teams.requires-approval
- Fake SMTP testing server.requires-approval
- Hosting for static sites.requires-approval
- Automate end-to-end email tests with unlimited mailboxes and a GraphQL API.requires-approval
- API for file uploading & encoding.requires-approval
- Chat for distributed teams.Please see the contributor guidelines and code of conduct for details.
requires-approval
While many companies use the public repositories feature of GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab to determine the Open Source status of a project, there are others who require more verification. These companies have been marked with a requires-approval
tag, indicating that an application process is required to take advantage of their Open Source benefits.
non-commercial
Some companies make their products available for open source, but only for non-commercial projects. These companies have been marked with a non-commercial
tag.