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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

570,875 contributors

$10B

Kubernetes

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

Contributors

114,916

Organizations

22,207

Software value

$4.7B

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

43,007

Organizations

5,053

Software value

$1.2B

Next.js

The React Framework

Contributors

36,235

Organizations

7,462

Software value

$39M

Definitely Typed

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

Contributors

31,608

Organizations

8,908

Software value

$109M

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

29,804

Organizations

3,102

Software value

$129M

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

28,336

Organizations

6,116

Software value

$193M

Python

The Python programming language

Contributors

27,524

Organizations

4,469

Software value

$80M

Laravel Framework

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

Contributors

23,789

Organizations

4,473

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

21,862

Organizations

3,474

Software value

$33M

Golang

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

Contributors

19,298

Organizations

5,257

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

18,372

Organizations

4,419

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

16,661

Organizations

3,504

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

15,346

Organizations

1,850

Software value

$144M

Raspberry Pi Kernel

Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds.

Contributors

15,220

Organizations

2,637

Software value

$1.4B

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Define composable configuration models through code

Contributors

13,920

Organizations

2,360

Software value

$130M

Storybook

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

Contributors

13,731

Organizations

3,117

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

13,077

Organizations

3,130

Software value

$65M

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

12,723

Organizations

1,975

Software value

$23M

NumPy

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

Contributors

9,952

Organizations

2,242

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

8,831

Organizations

1,647

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

8,132

Organizations

962

Software value

$102M

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

7,564

Organizations

1,225

Software value

$312M

Babel

Babel is a compiler for writing next-generation JavaScript.

Contributors

7,101

Organizations

2,499

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

7,092

Organizations

1,135

Software value

$36M

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java Project

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Contributors

6,744

Organizations

1,158

Software value

$64M

typescript-eslint

Tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to support TypeScript

Contributors

4,191

Organizations

1,446

Software value

$10M

CMSSW

CMS Offline Software

Contributors

4,179

Organizations

211

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

3,831

Organizations

367

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

3,482

Organizations

892

Software value

$35M

WebKit

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

Contributors

2,565

Organizations

235

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

1,782

Organizations

551

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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