Best freemium Open Source tools in 2026
Freemium Open Source products launched by indie makers, ranked by community upvotes.
IndieNeed is a launch site for indie makers.
These are the most upvoted freemium Open Source products on IndieNeed. The pricing is what each maker chose when submitting; check the product's own site for current prices. The order comes from upvotes, not payment.
Ranked products
Shadcn Space
Shadcn Space is a comprehensive platform offering an extensive collection of beautifully designed, accessible, and composable UI blocks, components, and templates specifically tailored for React and Next.js…
Shadcn Dashboard
ShadcnDashboard.dev helps you build modern admin dashboards without starting from scratch. Whether you’re building a SaaS, AI app, CRM, analytics dashboard, or internal tool, you get a production-ready foundation using…
Orbi
Orbi is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) AI coding agent that works from GitHub issues. Label an issue ai-ready and it writes the change in an isolated worktree, opens a pull request, has a separate review session check it…
rdyrct
rdyrct is an organization-based URL shortener and QR code generator. Use a custom domain and chosen slugs, build and measure UTM campaigns, and see clicks by country, referrer, device, and time without storing IP…
Startpacks
Startpacks is an open-source library of starter packs for AI coding tools: Cursor rules, Claude Code skills, AGENTS.md files and prompts tailored to your stack, plus a marketplace for premium packs and bundles.
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