Web tools
73%
of 2,522 have an open-source version
3,358 projects linked across 1,850 products
The Numbers
What 2,706 products say about the software business.
- 2,706products in the index2,661 through the assessment pipeline
- $702,082of subscriptions tracked, per year92% of it sits behind a verdict that says you could own some or all of it
2,706 products · 27 categories
Products in Each Category
Median price · open-source cover
What Each Category Costs, and Whether Open Source Covers It
Two measures per category, facing each other. On the left, what one product in that category costs a year. On the right, how often an open-source version exists at all. Read down the page: what a category costs says nothing about whether open source has reached it (Spearman ρ -0.07). SEO marketing is the dearest at $414 a year and finds a way out 36% of the time.
- What one product costs a year, at the category median
- The vendor publishes its own source
- An open-source project does the core job
Web · app store
Open Source Covers the Web Better Than It Covers Your Phone
A repository can stand in for a web tool on a server you already have. Standing in for a phone app means shipping through a store you do not control, and it shows: 73% of web tools have an open-source version against 58% of app-store products, a gap of 15 points.
App store
58%
of 184 have an open-source version
182 projects linked across 107 products