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Open core means the main software is published under an open-source license and can be used without payment, while the vendor keeps some features, often enterprise or team functions, in a separate edition under proprietary terms. The open part is complete enough to run, and the boundary between free and paid is set by the vendor. A record holds this value when the repository or licensing page names both an open-source license and a commercial or enterprise license for parts of the code. Compare open source.

60 projects are open core, listed alphabetically. Mostly UI components and editors, analytics and monitoring and e-commerce, of 17 categories in all. 13 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way. Counts only projects with momentum; the full list has the rest.

A

  • Activepieces

    Workflow automation platform with a self-hostable server and an embeddable builder that a SaaS product can place inside its own app.

  • AG Grid

    JavaScript data grid library, in a Community edition under the MIT license and an Enterprise edition under a commercial license, for displaying and editing tabular data.

  • ALTCHA

    Open-source proof-of-work CAPTCHA widget and server verification libraries, with a paid self-hosted server (Sentinel) and a hosted service (Cloud).

  • Appsmith

    Open source low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels and dashboards.

  • Ariakit

    Open-source React library of unstyled, accessible UI primitives and components for building web apps and design systems.

  • authentik

    Self-hosted, open source identity provider with OIDC, SAML, LDAP and proxy authentication.

B

  • BlockNote

    Block-based rich text editor for React applications.

C

  • CapRover

    Self-hosted platform as a service that deploys apps and one-click services to Docker containers behind nginx with automatic HTTPS.

  • Carbone

    Document generator that fills Word, Excel, OpenDocument and PowerPoint templates with JSON data and exports PDF and other formats.

  • Countly Lite

    Self-hosted analytics and engagement server that collects data from web, mobile and desktop applications and shows it in dashboards.

D

  • DBeaver

    Desktop database management tool and SQL client for many SQL and NoSQL databases, with a free community edition.

  • dhtmlxGantt

    JavaScript Gantt chart component for project scheduling, timelines and task dependencies.

F

  • Fess

    Java enterprise search server with a built-in crawler, an admin console and a search UI, built on OpenSearch.

  • Flagsmith

    Open-source feature flag and remote config platform, available self-hosted or as a cloud service, with SDKs for web, mobile and server-side apps.

  • FlyEnv

    Native local development environment for Windows, macOS and Linux that runs runtimes, databases and web servers on the host, with local sites, HTTPS and an MCP server for AI coding agents.

  • Font Awesome

    Icon library and toolkit distributed as web fonts, SVG and CSS, with free icon styles and paid Pro styles.

  • Formbricks

    Open-source experience management and survey platform, self-hosted or offered as a hosted cloud service.

G

  • Grafana

    Open source application for querying, visualizing, alerting on and exploring metrics, logs and traces.

  • GrowthBook

    Open-core feature flagging, experimentation and product analytics platform, available self-hosted or as a cloud service, with SDKs for application code.

H

  • Hasura GraphQL Engine

    Open-source GraphQL server that generates a GraphQL API over existing databases and other data sources, with a hosted Hasura Cloud edition.

  • HeroUI

    Open-source component library for React web and React Native applications, built on React Aria Components and Tailwind CSS.

  • Hexclave

    Open-source user infrastructure platform for authentication, teams, payments, email and analytics, with a managed cloud and a self-hostable server.

I

  • Infisical

    Open-source platform for managing application secrets, certificates and cryptographic keys, with a CLI, SDKs and a self-hostable server alongside Infisical Cloud.

J

  • JTL-Shop

    Online shop software from JTL-Software-GmbH, written in PHP.

K

  • Kendo UI

    Commercial JavaScript UI component library for jQuery, with an open-source Kendo UI Core subset.

  • Kestra

    Open-source orchestration platform for data, AI and infrastructure workflows, defined in YAML and run on a server with a web UI.

  • Keystatic

    Content management tool that edits Markdown, YAML and JSON files in a codebase, through the local file system or GitHub.

  • Kokonut UI

    Open-source collection of React components built with Tailwind CSS, Motion and shadcn/ui, installed into a project as source code.

  • Kong Gateway

    Open source API gateway, built on NGINX, that routes, secures and transforms traffic to APIs through plugins, with a Kong Konnect SaaS option.

L

  • Langfuse

    Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and monitoring LLM applications, sent from application code through SDKs and OpenTelemetry.

M

  • Magnolia

    Magnolia is a Java digital experience platform for managing and delivering web content, with a Community Edition under GPLv3 and a licensed DX Core.

  • Mastra

    TypeScript framework for building AI agents and applications.

  • Medusa

    Open-source headless commerce platform for Node.js with commerce modules, an admin dashboard and REST store and admin APIs.

  • Mercur

    Open-source headless platform for building multi-vendor marketplaces, built on the Medusa commerce core.

N

  • Neo4j

    Native graph database server that stores nodes and relationships and is queried with the Cypher language.

  • Novu

    Open-source notification infrastructure with one API for sending messages across in-app inbox, email, SMS, push and chat channels, self-hostable or available as a cloud service.

O

  • Odoo

    Suite of web-based open source business apps, including a website builder and an e-commerce app.

  • Ory Hydra

    OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect server that issues tokens and connects to an existing login and consent app.

P

  • Petal Components

    Shadcn-style HEEx component library for Phoenix LiveView apps, styled with Tailwind CSS and installed from Hex.

  • PgDog

    PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder written in Rust.

  • PM2

    Process manager for Node.js and Bun applications that keeps them running, with a built-in load balancer.

  • PostHog

    Product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and surveys, self-hosted from its code or run as PostHog Cloud.

Q

  • Qdrant

    Vector search engine and vector database, run as a server with a REST and gRPC API, also offered as Qdrant Cloud.

R

  • Reflex

    Python library for building full-stack web apps, with the frontend compiled to React and the backend run as a Python server.

S

  • SeaweedFS

    Distributed file system and S3-compatible object store, written in Go, shipped as one weed binary.

  • ServiceStack

    Services framework for .NET that builds HTTP and message-based web services from typed request DTOs.

  • SigNoz

    Open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that covers logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards.

  • Spree Commerce

    Open-source commerce platform built on Ruby on Rails, with a REST API, TypeScript SDKs and a Next.js storefront.

  • Staatic

    WordPress plugin that crawls a WordPress site into a static copy and publishes that copy to static hosting.

  • Stirling PDF

    Open-core PDF editing and processing platform for self-hosted servers and a hosted service, with a REST API.

  • SuperTokens

    Open source user authentication server, Core, with frontend and backend SDKs, self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.

  • SurveyJS Form Library

    Open-source JavaScript form library that renders JSON-defined forms and surveys in React, Angular, Vue and plain JavaScript applications.

T

  • Tabler

    Free and open source HTML dashboard UI kit built on Bootstrap 5, with layouts and components for admin panels and web apps.

  • Tabler Icons

    Set of free, MIT-licensed SVG icons on a 24x24 grid, published as npm packages for plain HTML and for several frameworks.

  • Tiptap

    Headless rich-text editor framework for web applications, built on ProseMirror.

  • ToolJet

    Open-source low-code platform for building internal tools and dashboards on existing databases and APIs, self-hosted or as ToolJet Cloud.

U

  • Usertour

    Open-source user onboarding platform for in-app product tours, checklists and surveys.

V

  • Vaadin Web Components

    Set of web components for business web applications, published by Vaadin as one npm package per component.

  • VictoriaMetrics

    Time series database and monitoring solution that stores metrics pushed by applications and agents, with a Prometheus-compatible query API.

W

  • Web Awesome

    Library of framework-agnostic web components with CSS styling, from the team behind Font Awesome.

Which of these is best?

We don't know. A portfolio, a shop and a documentation site need different things from their software, and so does a team of one against an agency. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical.