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Top 30 Open Source Projects

A curated list of the most essential open source projects, based on the OpenSSF Criticality Score. These projects power global infrastructure and are widely relied upon across industries.

32 projects

569,134 contributors

$10B

Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Contributors

121,749

Organizations

22,229

Software value

$4.5B

The Linux Kernel

The Linux Kernel Organization is a California Public Benefit Corporation established in 2002 to distribute the Linux kernel and other Open Source software to the public without charge. We are recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 private operating foundation.

Contributors

45,795

Organizations

5,079

Software value

$1.2B

Next.js

The React Framework

Contributors

35,448

Organizations

7,319

Software value

$38M

Definitely Typed

DefinitelyTyped is a community-driven project that provides high-quality TypeScript type definitions for JavaScript libraries.

Contributors

31,473

Organizations

8,878

Software value

$110M

NixOS

NixOS is a declarative, reproducible Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager, where the entire system configuration—including packages, services, and settings—is defined in a single configuration file.

Contributors

27,222

Organizations

5,657

Software value

$136M

Python

The Python programming language

Contributors

27,164

Organizations

4,395

Software value

$80M

Godot Engine

Godot Engine is a lightweight, cross-platform engine for 2D and 3D game development with a strong focus on usability and a custom scripting language.

Contributors

26,349

Organizations

2,989

Software value

$129M

Laravel Framework

Laravel Framework is an open-source PHP framework for building web applications, offering features such as routing, authentication, and database management.

Contributors

23,576

Organizations

4,438

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-based web application framework developed by Google for building dynamic, single-page applications with a structured, component-driven architecture.

Contributors

21,726

Organizations

3,468

Software value

$32M

Golang

Go is an open-source programming language designed by Google that is known for its simplicity, performance, and efficient concurrency support.

Contributors

18,979

Organizations

5,165

Software value

$98M

React

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It enables developers to create reusable UI components and efficiently update views when data changes, following a declarative programming paradigm.

Contributors

18,076

Organizations

4,381

Software value

$26M

Material UI

Material UI is a popular React component library that provides pre-built, customizable UI components based on Google's Material Design system.

Contributors

16,549

Organizations

3,494

Software value

$31M

Zephyr Project

The Zephyr Project is a scalable real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting multiple hardware architectures, optimized for resource constrained devices, and built with safety and security in mind.

Contributors

15,646

Organizations

1,823

Software value

$138M

Raspberry Pi Kernel

Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds.

Contributors

14,969

Organizations

2,623

Software value

$1.2B

Storybook

Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation

Contributors

13,549

Organizations

3,058

Software value

$13M

The Symfony PHP Framework

Symfony is a PHP web application framework designed for building robust, scalable, and maintainable web applications using reusable components and a structured MVC architecture. It’s widely used for enterprise-level projects and forms the foundation of many other PHP platforms, including Laravel and Drupal.

Contributors

13,081

Organizations

3,146

Software value

$64M

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is a Java-based framework that simplifies the development of standalone, production-grade Spring applications by providing convention over configuration and embedded servers. It eliminates much of the boilerplate setup required by traditional Spring applications, enabling faster development and easier deployment.

Contributors

12,591

Organizations

1,943

Software value

$23M

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Define composable configuration models through code

Contributors

12,364

Organizations

2,307

Software value

$130M

NumPy

NumPy is a Python library for numerical computing, providing support for multi-dimensional arrays, mathematical functions, and efficient operations on large datasets.

Contributors

9,124

Organizations

2,203

Software value

$23M

Matplotlib

Matplotlib is a Python library for creating static, interactive, and animated visualizations, widely used for plotting graphs and charts in data analysis and scientific computing.

Contributors

8,383

Organizations

1,644

Software value

$21M

Espressif IoT Development Framework

Espressif IoT Development Framework, or ESP IDF, is an open source software kit that supplies tools, libraries, and APIs so you can develop, flash, and debug applications on Espressif ESP32 WiFi and Bluetooth microcontrollers.

Contributors

7,705

Organizations

939

Software value

$103M

Ceph

The power of Ceph can transform your organization’s IT infrastructure and your ability to manage vast amounts of data. If your organization runs applications with different storage interface needs, Ceph is for you! Ceph’s foundation is the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS), which provides your applications with object, block, and file system storage in a single unified storage cluster—making Ceph flexible, highly reliable and easy for you to manage.

Contributors

7,512

Organizations

1,209

Software value

$285M

Babel

Babel is a compiler for writing next-generation JavaScript.

Contributors

7,103

Organizations

2,507

Software value

$34M

Spring Framework

The Spring Framework is a lightweight, open-source Java framework that simplifies enterprise application development by providing comprehensive infrastructure support, including dependency injection, transaction management, and web development tools.

Contributors

6,973

Organizations

1,103

Software value

$36M

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java Project

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Contributors

6,395

Organizations

1,117

Software value

$63M

typescript-eslint

Tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to support TypeScript

Contributors

4,162

Organizations

1,441

Software value

$10M

CMSSW

CMS Offline Software

Contributors

4,138

Organizations

204

Dolibarr ERP CRM

Dolibarr ERP CRM is a modern software package to manage your company or foundation's activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, ...). it's an open source Web application (written in PHP) designed for businesses of any sizes, foundations and freelancers.

Contributors

3,548

Organizations

357

Software value

$57M

Gentoo

Gentoo is a flexible, source-based Linux distribution that enables users to optimize and customize their system by compiling software directly from source code.

Contributors

3,436

Organizations

882

Software value

$34M

WebKit

The browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

Contributors

2,588

Organizations

248

Software value

$1.4B

Git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

Contributors

1,737

Organizations

547

Software value

$28M

.NET runtime

.NET runtime is the execution engine that runs .NET applications, handling memory management, JIT compilation, and other core services needed to run managed code.

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