Every open-source money, budgeting & management project we track, scored on maintenance, momentum and licence — so you can tell the live competitors from the abandoned repositories.
Money, Budgeting & Management has 42 open-source implementations in this dataset, of which 27 show real momentum and 2 are dormant or abandoned. The leader is HyperSwitch with 43k stars against a category median of 973 — roughly 45x the typical project. Saturation score 72/100: Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
The practical test in this category: HyperSwitch is the reference implementation at 43k stars, and 27 of 42 projects are still shipping. A buyer evaluating you will find at least one maintained free option, so your pricing and positioning have to answer "why not self-host HyperSwitch?" in the first minute.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Payment switch to make payments fast, reliable and affordable. Connect with multiple payment processors and route traffic effortlessly, all with a single API integration.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional automa
Alternative to Personal finance
Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks
Alternative to Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Usage-based billing
Metering and usage-based billing.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.
Alternative to Invoicing
Powerful tool to invoice clients online.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Personal finance application for everyone (fork of Maybe).
Alternative to Personal finance
Wealth management software to keep track of stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Lightweight personal subscription tracker with statistics and optional notifications.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies payment processor.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Cryptocurrency trading bot.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Subscription billing & payments platform. Have access to real-time analytics and financial reports.
Money, Budgeting & Management
A lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Manage quotes, invoices, payments and customers for your small business.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Web frontend of Beancount, a text based double-entry accounting system.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Track expenses, payments & create professional invoices & estimates (fork of Crater).
Money, Budgeting & Management
Hosting and billing automation. Integrates with WHM, CWP, cPanel and HestiaCP. Full API and easily extensible.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Extremely simple expense tracker with a beautiful UI.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Manage your shared expenses, easily.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Cryptocurrencies payment processor and development platform.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Budgeting app based on the Bucket Budgeting Principle.
Alternative to Invoicing
Open source invoicing and quote application.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Simple and powerful finance tracker.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Simple app for tracking monthly spending and working towards financial goals.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Budgeting application focused on planning for recurring expenses.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Cryptocurrency payment processor with the unique combination of gateway and merchant allowing you to accept payments in multiple cryptocurrencies without fees and intermediaries.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Manage tasks, time, assets and much more within your business.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Simplistic and straightforward budgeting app to track your budget across months and years.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Store and manage vouchers, coupons, loyalty and gift cards digitally. Supports expiry notifications, transaction histories, file uploads and OIDC SSO.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Web-based finance management tool for partners with partially shared expenses.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Personal finance manager.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Personal finances platform (web + REST API + Android) that'll help you budget, keep track of your income/spending and forecast your financial future.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Easy-to-use receipt manager, powered by AI. Allows users to create receipts effortlessly and quickly, categorize and more.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Personal net worth and investment tracker.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Accept Web3 Payments directly into your wallet. Peer-to-peer, free, self-hosted & open-source.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Assets management and booking for small/medium companies.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Personal finance web application, that can be used to keep track of your money, expenses, budgets, and investments. It also helps with long-term financial planning.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Budgeting application for managing personal and family finances, supporting multiple currencies, joint accounts, and budgets.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Membership management web application aimed towards non profit organizations.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Secure, browser-based, password-only self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet.
Money, Budgeting & Management
Online invoicing, project management, time tracking and proposal software.
100 maintained · leader Mastodon
58 maintained · leader Dify.ai
40 maintained · leader revealjs
36 maintained · leader Jellyfin
28 maintained · leader copyparty
29 maintained · leader Strapi
Existence is not competition. A project competes with you only if it is maintained, findable, deployable by your buyer and licensed for their use. Most projects fail at least one of those tests. Run all four before you shelve an idea — or before you assume you have a clear run.
Stars are a lifetime counter with no decay, so a project abandoned in 2022 still looks like a leader in 2026. In this dataset 149 projects are dormant, abandoned or archived, and several of them sit in the top decile by stars. Sort by momentum and commit activity instead — popularity tells you the project was once interesting, maintenance tells you whether it will still be there when your customer needs a bug fixed.
When a prospect says 'we could just self-host the free one', they are usually comparing your price against zero. The real comparison is your price against hosting, upgrades, backups, security patching, integration work and the engineer hours behind all of it. Quantifying that number is the single most effective response to a free-alternative objection — and it is more persuasive coming with a spreadsheet than with a feature list.
Founders treat licensing as a legal footnote and then discover it dictates strategy. Permissive licences allow closed commercial forks, which is why so many managed services exist around MIT and Apache projects — and also why your differentiation cannot be the code itself. Copyleft licences, especially AGPL, remove the closed-wrapper option entirely, which reduces competition but restricts you too. Source-available licences exist precisely to stop the wrapper business.
Search this database by category and by the commercial product you would replace. It covers 1665 projects across 130 categories, each mapped to the paid tool it substitutes. If your category shows a "Crowded" verdict, a maintained free version almost certainly exists and your positioning has to account for it.
No. It means free is your price anchor. Plenty of large companies were built next to a good open-source project — the ones that failed were the ones selling the same job at a price the free tool made indefensible. Find the part of the job the project deliberately does not do, and sell that.
Each category gets a 0–100 score built from three inputs: how many implementations exist, what share of them are still actively maintained, and how far ahead the leading project is compared with the category median. 62+ is Crowded, 38–61 Contested, under 38 Open. 11 categories are Crowded and 88 are Open.
A project has momentum when it committed code in most of the last twelve months, shipped a release recently and is not archived. 736 of 1665 projects qualify. This is the single most useful filter here — it strips out the popular-but-dead repositories that make a category look more competitive than it is.
It depends entirely on the licence. MIT, Apache and BSD let you build and sell closed products on top. GPL and AGPL require derivative work to stay open, and AGPL extends that to network use, which blocks most SaaS wrappers. BSL, SSPL and Commons Clause are source-available, not open source, and usually restrict competing commercial use outright.
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