Free alternatives
Free and open-source alternatives to popular tools for developers
68 well-known paid tools and 144 free or open-source tools that do the same job. Free here means free to use or to self-host, not a free trial or a limited tier of a paid product.
All open source unless marked * (source-available: free to self-host, with limits in the license). Licenses and prices checked 2026-10-01; hover a mark for the license. Self-hosting is free, but you pay for the server (a small VPS is about $4–6/mo).
AI coding
Cursor
Cline
Zed
GitHub Copilotfrom $10/mo (Pro)
Tabby ML
Claude Codefrom $20/mo (Claude Pro)
OpenCode
Aider
Gemini CLIAPIs
Postmanfrom $9/user/mo (Solo)
Bruno
Hoppscotch
InsomniaSearch
Algoliafrom usage-based
Meilisearch
Typesense
OpenSearch
Elasticsearchfrom usage-based (Elastic Cloud)Hosting
Heroku
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Dokploy
CapRover
VercelBackend
Firebasefrom usage-based (Blaze)
Supabase
Appwrite
PocketBaseAuth
Auth0from $35/mo (Essentials)
Keycloak
SuperTokens
Zitadel
Better Auth
Okta
authentikCMS
Contentful
Strapi
Payload
DirectusMonitoring
Datadog
Grafana
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OpenObserve
Sentry.io
GlitchTip
UptimeRobot
Uptime Kuma
Gatus
PagerDuty
Keep
OneUptimeAnalytics
Mixpanel
PostHog
OpenPanel
Amplitude
Segment
RudderStack
Jitsu
Tableau
Metabase
Apache Superset
Hotjar
OpenReplay
Google Analytics
Plausible
Umami
MatomoAutomation
Zapier
n8n
Activepieces
Windmill
MakeInternal tools
Retool
Appsmith
ToolJet
BudibaseDocs and wikis
Notion
AFFiNE
Outline
GitBook
Confluence
BookStack
Wiki.js
Evernote
Joplin
ObsidianDevOps
Docker
Podman
Colima
GitHub Actions
Woodpecker CI
Jenkins
Terraform
OpenTofu
Pulumi
GitHub
Gitea
Forgejo
GitLab CE
LaunchDarkly
Unleash
Flagsmith
GrowthBook
GitHub Codespaces
Coder
code-server
Eclipse Che
ngrok
zrok
frpDatabases
Redisfrom $5/mo (Redis Cloud)
Valkey
Dragonfly DBSecurity
Snyk
Semgrep
1Password
Bitwarden
Vaultwarden
KeePassXCDesign
Figma
Penpot
Lunacy
Cloudinary
imgproxy
Thumbor
Tailwind UI
shadcn/ui
daisyUI
Flowbite
Miro
Excalidraw
tldraw
Adobe Photoshop
GIMP
Krita
Photopea
Adobe Illustrator
Inkscape
Adobe Lightroom
darktable
RawTherapeeTeam chat
Slack
Rocket.Chat
Zulip
Zoom
Jitsi Meet
BigBlueButtonProject tracking
Jira
Plane
OpenProject
LinearAI chat
ChatGPT
Open WebUI
LibreChat
Jan
OllamaProductivity
Calendly
Cal.com
Easy!Appointments
Typeform
Formbricks
OpnForm
HeyForm
Airtable
NocoDB
Baserow
Teable
Trello
Planka
WeKan
DocuSign
Documenso
OpenSign
Dropbox
Nextcloud
SeafileSupport
Intercom
Chatwoot
FreeScout
ZendeskMarketing
Listmonk
Mautic
Keila
Buffer
Postiz
MixpostSales
HubSpot CRM
Twenty
EspoCRMVideo
Adobe Premiere Pro
Kdenlive
Shotcut Video Editor
DaVinci Resolve
Screen Studio
OBS Studio
CapAI
Midjourney
ComfyUI
InvokeAI
Perplexity
Perplexica
Otter.ai
OpenAI Whisper
Whisper.cpp
ElevenLabs
Piper TTS
Coqui TTSSuggest a free alternative
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