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Emerging platforms are in development or not broadly available yet.

Fountain

A predictable fundraising, income streams, surplus redistribution, and sustainable growth to open source and public goods.

Emerging Donations OSS-specific Decentralized

Otechie

Otechie is a browser-based support and collaboration tool for developers who provide live technical help to clients.

Emerging Support & Services OSS-specific Interactive Developer tooling

Pledgecamp

Pledgecamp is a blockchain-oriented crowdfunding project built around escrow, backer insurance, and smart-contract infrastructure.

Emerging Crowdfunding Generic platform Decentralized

Repo.trade

Repo.trade is an early-stage platform that tokenizes GitHub repositories and routes auction and trading proceeds back to repository owners.

Emerging Crowdfunding Generic platform Decentralized

Snowdrift

A nonprofit cooperative for funding public goods – things like software, music, journalism, and research.

Emerging Crowdfunding OSS-specific Non-profit Creator economy

SourceCred

SourceCred is an open source system for measuring contributions and distributing rewards inside communities.

Emerging Infrastructure OSS-specific Decentralized

Historical records: 33 discontinued listings

Historical records are kept for research and comparison, not as active recommendations.

Amazon Smile

Amazon donates 0.5% of the eligible net purchase price to the charitable organisation of choice, such as OSS foundations.

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Apt-get Shirt

Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.

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Beerpay

Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.

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Blocklancer

Blocklancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for paid client work and dispute-managed project delivery.

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Bountify

Bountify was a bounty marketplace for coding problems and technical questions.

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Bounty Source

Bountysource was an open source funding platform for issue bounties and project fundraisers.

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Bugmark

Bugmark was an experimental platform for applying prediction-market mechanics to open source issue funding.

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Bytepack

Bytepack was a hosted service for packaging and selling software to developers and enterprise customers.

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CodeFund

CodeFund was an ethical advertising network that shared revenue with open source projects and developer-focused websites.

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Coil

Coil was a web-monetization platform that streamed micropayments to creators as subscribers consumed content.

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Coinlancer

Coinlancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for remote service work and escrowed payments.

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Core Infrastructure Initiative

A Linux Foundation initiative to collaboratively identify, fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure that are in need of assistance.

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Ellcrys

Ellcrys was a decentralized git-hosting and software-ownership protocol that aimed to combine collaboration, governance, and revenue sharing.

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Flattr

Flattr was a micro-donation platform that let users support multiple creators through one subscription or one-off donations.

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Flossbank

Funds entire dependency tree’s as they’re used with a combination of donation and ad revenue.

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FOSS Pay

FOSS Pay was a self-hosted donation collection tool for groups and maintainers who wanted Stripe-backed payments without a hosted marketplace.

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Fosshost

Fosshost is a not-for-profit provider of free to use and accessible cloud-hosting services to the free and open source software community.

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Free and Open Source Software Audit

FOSSA was an EU-backed programme for funding security audits, bug bounties, and related support for critical open source software.

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Fundabit

Fundabit was a crypto subscription platform for creators selling memberships and recurring access paid in tokens.

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Fundition

Fundition was a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform built around Steem and Tron with a no-fee pitch for founders and backers.

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GitFund

GitFund was an issue-prioritization and sponsorship experiment that let supporters donate against specific GitHub feature requests.

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Gitstore

Gitstore was a storefront for selling access to repositories, packages, and other developer assets through subscription or one-time purchase plans.

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Hit Chain

HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.

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IT Sphere

IT Sphere was a blockchain-oriented platform that pitched itself as a meeting point for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and technical experts.

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Katalyse

Katalyse was a token-sale and fundraising platform for crypto projects that wanted ICO launch, listing, and investor-onboarding support.

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Kauri

Kauri was a decentralized technical knowledge base for Ethereum developers that rewarded contributors for tutorials and documentation.

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License Zero

License Zero was a dual-licensing toolchain for selling paid commercial-use permissions for open source software.

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Lyfevest

Lyfevest was pitched as a subscription service for connecting enterprise users of open source with the contributors building those projects.

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NouGit

NouGit was a decentralized platform that combined open source collaboration with tokenized rewards and bounties.

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Open Source Coin

Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.

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Saasify

Saasify was a toolkit and hosted service for turning APIs or serverless functions into SaaS products with billing, docs, and a marketing site.

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Utopian

A provider of free crowdsourcing services to open source projects by incentivizing contribution.

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XS Code

XS Code was a platform for selling paid subscriptions, commercial licenses, and premium support on top of open source projects.

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Name	Goal	Model	Monetization	Fees	Activity signal	Status
Compare Algora Live Verified OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Bounties, contract work, and recruiting placements	Fees: Pricing states a 9% fee on bounties for organizations, while hiring and some contract workflows route through a contact flow.	Activity signal: Algora reports 100+ customers and 30+ full-time software engineers hired.	Live
Compare Amazon Smile Historical Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations from purchases of customers who opted-in	Fees: Amazon funded the donation itself by contributing 0.5% of eligible purchase value; users and charities did not pay a platform fee.	Activity signal: Before it was wound down, Amazon said AmazonSmile had donated more than $215 million globally to hundreds of thousands of charities.	Historical
Compare Apt-get Shirt Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Merchandise sales with revenue sharing	Fees: Historical community references described part of each sale, often cited as roughly half of proceeds, being donated to the represented project.	Activity signal: The original store could not be validated during this audit. Surviving references describe Apt-get Shirt as a small historical merchandise-based support model for OSS projects.	Historical
Compare AWS Promotional Credit Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Cloud credits for open source infrastructure	Fees: Credits offset eligible AWS charges. Projects still need an AWS account and valid payment method, and any usage above the credit balance is billed normally.	Activity signal: AWS said in March 2025 that its cloud credits program had supported more than 200 open source projects since launch.	Live
Compare BackYourStack Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Dependency-based donation discovery and pledge routing	Fees: BackYourStack is a discovery layer and does not charge a direct platform fee.	Activity signal: Public organization pages currently show examples with dozens of repositories and hundreds of fundable open source dependencies, including one Open Collective view covering 83 repositories and 772 projects.	Live
Compare Beerpay Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Issue funding and maintainer tips	Fees: Surviving public references confirm Stripe and Bitcoin support, but a definitive historical fee schedule could not be validated.	Activity signal: Beerpay is discontinued. Surviving public references describe it as a GitHub-based service for tips and issue funding.	Historical
Compare BEPRO Network Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: Public docs describe marketplace and protocol-level fees around task creation and reward flows, but current product pricing is partly token- and partner-specific.	Activity signal: Current public materials say more than 200 organizations use Bepro's platforms, while the live marketplace shows a smaller active task set.	Live
Compare Blocklancer Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Freelance jobs and platform commissions	Fees: 3% commission	Activity signal: Historical public materials described around 800 gigs listed before the platform went offline.	Historical
Compare Bounties Network Live Generic platform	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: Bounties Network states that 100% of the bounty goes to the fulfiller, aside from Ethereum network costs.	Activity signal: The public site continues to present a live explorer and getting-started flows, but it does not expose a defensible current marketplace size metric.	Live
Compare Bountify Historical Generic platform	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: Historical pricing references listed platform fees from $0.99 to $14.99 depending on bounty amount.	Activity signal: Historical references describe more than 1,600 bounties before the service went offline.	Historical
Compare Bounty Source Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties, Crowdfunding, Donations	Fees: Historical references commonly described a 10% platform fee.	Activity signal: Historical references describe a community of roughly 70,000 members and more than 2,000 bounties before the service failed.	Historical
Compare BountyHub Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: GitHub issue bounties and crowdfunded rewards	Fees: 10% platform fee + payment processing fees, paid by bounty creators on top of bounty amount	Activity signal: The public site says payouts are available in 121 countries and highlights a live set of GitHub issue bounties.	Live
Compare Bugmark Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: A marketplace for issues and selective incentives	Fees: The current public footprint is too thin to validate a stable pricing model.	Activity signal: The original site could not be validated during this audit. The surviving evidence is an academic paper describing Bugmark as a proof-of-concept implementation.	Historical
Compare Buy Me a Coffee Live Verified Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: One time small donations	Fees: Buy Me a Coffee charges a 5% platform fee per transaction. Its help docs say Stripe processing fees still apply, though creators can choose whether to absorb or pass those on.	Activity signal: Buy Me a Coffee now says it serves more than 1 million creators worldwide.	Live
Compare Bytepack Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Paywall for software package usage	Fees: Historical public materials described the product but did not leave behind a stable public pricing page.	Activity signal: 0	Historical
Compare Carbon Ads Live Generic platform	Revenue	Advertising	Monetization: Advertising revenue for developer and creator publishers	Fees: Carbon says publishers typically earn about $0.50-$1.10 CPM. Payouts are Net-30, with withdrawal minimums depending on the selected payment method.	Activity signal: Carbon says its network reaches audiences through more than 600 hand-picked tech sites and has paid out more than $120 million to publishers since launch.	Live
Compare Claude for Open Source Live Verified OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: 6 months of Claude Max 20x for approved OSS maintainers and contributors	Fees: Approved applicants receive 6 months of Claude Max 20x through the program. Standard Anthropic pricing applies outside that program.	Activity signal: Anthropic says the program accepts up to 10,000 contributors, but it does not publish how many have already been approved.	Live
Compare Code Code Ship Live Generic platform	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Paid package access, licenses, and subscription-based code distribution	Fees: Public product pages do not present a simple flat marketplace commission; pricing appears to depend on the supplier and package setup.	Activity signal: Current public product surfaces show active paid-package distribution flows for at least Rust and Hex-style ecosystems, with package updates published in 2025.	Live
Compare CodeBuddy Live Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Software-development services and AI-assisted build workflows	Fees: CodeBuddy advertises expert work starting around $500 per task and additional custom project pricing rather than a fixed public platform fee.	Activity signal: CodeBuddy currently advertises a pool of 120+ experts, AI-software-studio workflows, and project-based expert engagements.	Live
Compare CodeFund Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Advertising	Monetization: Ethical advertising	Fees: Publishers were paid from advertiser spend; archived materials do not present a standard publisher-side fee.	Activity signal: Archived public materials described more than 39 ad campaigns and funding for more than 1,000 open source projects across the broader Code Sponsor and CodeFund history.	Historical
Compare Codeheat Live OSS-specific	Project support	Events	Monetization: Cash prizes, certificates, and event support for contributors	Fees: Codeheat is a contest program, not a paid platform with a published platform fee.	Activity signal: The current contest site highlights 750+ participants and 2,000+ merged pull requests in the latest cycle.	Live
Compare Codementor Live Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Paid live sessions, code reviews, and freelance jobs	Fees: Mentor rates vary between $10-$50 for every 15 minutes, with an additional 2.85% processing fee	Activity signal: Current public materials highlight 12,000+ developers available for live help and freelance work.	Live
Compare CodeRabbit for Open Source Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Free Pro-tier access for public repositories, plus direct OSS sponsorship commitments	Fees: CodeRabbit says open source projects get free access on public repositories. Paid plans for private and commercial use currently start around $24 per user per month annually or $30 month-to-month.	Activity signal: CodeRabbit says it distributed $600,000 to open source maintainers in 2025, committed $1 million in sponsorships overall, and offers free access for public repositories.	Live
Compare Codex for Open Source Live Verified OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: 6 months of ChatGPT Pro, conditional Codex Security access, and API credits for qualifying OSS maintainers	Fees: Selected applicants receive 6 months of ChatGPT Pro, conditional access to Codex Security, and API credits. Standard OpenAI pricing still applies outside the program.	Activity signal: OpenAI reviews applications on a rolling basis, but it does not publish public recipient counts or total credit amounts for the program.	Live
Compare Coil Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Subscription-funded streaming micropayments for creators	Fees: Coil charged users a flat $5 monthly membership; creators were paid from streamed consumption rather than charged a platform listing fee.	Activity signal: Before sunsetting in 2023, Coil publicly operated a $5 monthly membership and a creator-payout network built around Web Monetization.	Historical
Compare Coinlancer Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Freelance jobs, gigs, and marketplace commissions	Fees: Historical public materials described a 3% commission model.	Activity signal: Current third-party market references describe the project as inactive with no recent development or active trading presence.	Historical
Compare CommitChange Live Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations, crowdfunding campaigns, fundraising events	Fees: CommitChange currently charges 5% + $0.30 per online donation, with no monthly fees or contract.	Activity signal: CommitChange says $62 million has been raised through the platform, alongside 3,800 fundraising campaigns, 2,500 events, and 64,000 recurring donors.	Live
Compare Commons Stack Live OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Decentralized tools to raise and allocate shared funds	Fees: Commons Stack publishes community funding and governance tooling rather than a single marketplace fee schedule.	Activity signal: Current public materials center on the Commons Stack initiative, Commons Configuration resources, and the Gardens funding product.	Live
Compare Community Bridge Live OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Crowdfunding	Fees: Zero fees for first $10M donated through CommunityBridge. After that, 5% platform fee plus the payment processor’s fee.	Activity signal: The service remains active inside LFX Crowdfunding for project, security, event, and travel funds managed through the Linux Foundation.	Live
Compare Core Infrastructure Initiative Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grants for selected projects	Fees: CII was a funding initiative backed by industry members, not a paid platform.	Activity signal: CII funded multiple security-critical projects and then was folded into OpenSSF in 2020.	Historical
Compare Dev Protocol Live Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Staking tokens to support projects and earn rewards	Fees: Support and sponsorship flows rely on token and network transaction fees rather than a conventional platform fee.	Activity signal: Public ecosystem materials describe token-based support and onboarding programs across more than 1,500 projects and creator initiatives.	Live
Compare Dosu Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Free for open source maintainers; paid team documentation and knowledge plans	Fees: Dosu's pricing page says the OSS plan is free for public repositories. Paid plans currently start at $19 per user per month annually for Pro and $60 per user per month annually for Ultra, with Enterprise pricing on request.	Activity signal: Dosu actively markets a free open source offering and public GitHub knowledge spaces, but it does not publish install counts or usage figures.	Live
Compare Egghead Live Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Sales of courses, workshops, and educational memberships	Fees: egghead sells individual workshops, courses, and occasional membership products; current public pricing is not a single fixed annual plan.	Activity signal: egghead publicly offers thousands of developer lessons, guides, and workshops across modern web and AI tooling topics.	Live
Compare Ellcrys Historical Generic platform	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Tokenized software ownership and revenue sharing	Fees: A current fee model could not be validated from surviving public materials.	Activity signal: The main product site could not be validated during this audit. The surviving public material is old documentation and ICO-era references with no sign of recent product activity.	Historical
Compare EthicalAds Live Generic platform	Revenue	Advertising	Monetization: Advertising revenue for technical publishers	Fees: EthicalAds says publishers receive 70% of revenue. Public publisher guidance estimates roughly $2.25-$2.75 CPM for many publishers, while advertiser buys start at a $1,000 minimum.	Activity signal: EthicalAds says it serves more than 35 million developer impressions each month across its network.	Live
Compare eventyay Live Generic platform	Project support	Events	Monetization: Projects can monetize event participation, sell tickets and sponsorships or receive donations.	Fees: Free for free events, 3% per paid ticket	Activity signal: Public materials historically described more than 20,000 registered users across virtual and in-person events.	Live
Compare FairOSS Live OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Membership fees, trademark fees, equity fundraising	Fees: Charter memberships ($10 - $2000) and equity commitment options	Activity signal: Current public materials focus on the FairOSS mission, charter memberships, brand/licensing mechanisms, and the Groundwater program.	Live
Compare Fiverr Live Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Freelance jobs, packaged services, and platform commissions	Fees: Fiverr has 20% commission and withdrawal fees from sellers, and $2 or 5% from buyers	Activity signal: Recent public company materials describe millions of active buyers and strong continued growth in services revenue.	Live
Compare Flattr Historical Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Single subscription, shared between as many receivers	Fees: Flattr historically charged a 5% fee, but the service is now discontinued.	Activity signal: Flattr's own site now says the service no longer exists after 14 years.	Historical
Compare Flossbank Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Monthly donations or in terminal ads	Fees: 1% for company donations, 2% for user donations, 30% for ads	Activity signal: The site now says Flossbank is decommissioning, but historical public materials show active support flows for developers, maintainers, and enterprise donors.	Historical
Compare FOSS Pay Historical Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations	Fees: FOSS Pay did not take a platform cut; payment processor fees still applied.	Activity signal: The project is discontinued. Surviving references describe it as a lightweight self-hosted Stripe donation tool.	Historical
Compare Fosshost Historical OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Donations	Fees: Fosshost offered free hosting and infrastructure support funded through donations and sponsorship.	Activity signal: Fosshost announced end-of-life in December 2022 and is no longer operating.	Historical
Compare Fountain Emerging OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations with target and redistribution of surplus	Fees: Ethereum Gas fees	Activity signal: 0	Emerging
Compare Free and Open Source Software Audit Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: EU sponsored support for FOSS	Fees: FOSSA was a public funding programme, not a fee-charging platform.	Activity signal: EU-FOSSA 2 ran 15 bug bounty programmes, found more than 200 bugs, and paid over €200,000 in rewards before the project ended in 2020.	Historical
Compare Fund Request Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: The current public site does not publish a clear universal fee schedule.	Activity signal: The current public browse page shows a total funded value of about $510 and still exposes live funding flows, but visible marketplace activity is thin.	Live
Compare Fundabit Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Monthly subscription	Fees: 5% plus Ethereum gas fees	Activity signal: Archived public materials described more than 15 creators on the platform during its early launch period.	Historical
Compare Fundition Historical Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Decentralized crowdfunding	Fees: Fundition's archived product material claimed 0% fees for founders and backers using Steem or Tron account flows.	Activity signal: The surviving public footprint is a product manifesto rather than an active marketplace. A current live campaign directory could not be validated.	Historical
Compare Ghost Live Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Paid membership with recurring subscriptions and email newsletters	Fees: Ghost(Pro) plans currently range from $18 to $199 per month when billed yearly, with 0% transaction fees on memberships.	Activity signal: Ghost currently reports 29,003 active customers and more than 100 million installs.	Live
Compare Gitcoin Live Verified Generic platform	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grant rounds, quadratic funding, and ecosystem funding programs	Fees: Gitcoin's current funding stack uses program-specific mechanisms and onchain payment flows rather than a single universal platform fee.	Activity signal: The OSS quadratic-funding portion of Gitcoin Grants 24 funded 55 projects, with 1,028 donors contributing nearly $29,739 against a $200,000 matching pool.	Live
Compare GitFund Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Issue-prioritized donations and sponsorship	Fees: The early public description focused on routing funds directly to the project owner's PayPal wallet. A durable platform fee model could not be validated.	Activity signal: The project was explicitly described by its creator as closed after failing to gain traction.	Historical
Compare GitHub Sponsors Live Verified OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Sponsorship for bug reports, issue triage, code, documentation, etc.	Fees: GitHub charges no fee on personal-account sponsorships. Organization sponsorships are charged up to 6%, split between card processing and GitHub service fees, with invoiced billing removing the card-processing portion.	Activity signal: GitHub Sponsors is available globally for sponsors, while sponsored developers and organizations must be located in GitHub-supported payout regions.	Live
Compare Gitpay Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: Gitpay's 2025 payment docs say payout costs vary by payment method, with PayPal-adjusted payouts and card-funded tasks paid through bank transfer workflows.	Activity signal: Gitpay's public documentation was updated in 2025 and the changelog shows continuing product work, but a current public task-count metric could not be validated.	Live
Compare Gitstore Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Subscription, purchase or donation plans for projects	Fees: Historical references described a free tier and paid plans up to about $50 per month, depending on revenue and features.	Activity signal: The original site could not be validated during this audit. Surviving references describe Gitstore as a 2019-era SaaS experiment for selling GitHub repository access.	Historical
Compare Giveth Live Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations	Fees: Giveth markets zero-fee crypto donations, with normal blockchain network costs still applying.	Activity signal: Giveth currently reports 7,618 projects, about $5.43 million donated, and 25,735 givers.	Live
Compare Google Summer of Code Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Contributor stipends for mentored OSS project work	Fees: Contributors receive stipends; participating organizations do not pay a platform fee.	Activity signal: Google reports 21,000+ contributors, 20,000+ mentors, and 1,000+ open source organizations since 2005.	Live
Compare Goteo Live Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Civic crowdfunding and matchfunding	Fees: Goteo advertises a 4% commission plus payment-processor costs, with additional public-program structures such as matchfunding available on some campaigns.	Activity signal: Goteo currently reports 395,445 community users, €24.7 million raised, and 2,396 funded projects.	Live
Compare Gumroad Live Verified Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Transaction fees on creator sales	Fees: Gumroad currently charges 10% + $0.50 for direct sales and 30% when a sale comes through its discovery marketplace. It no longer charges a monthly subscription fee.	Activity signal: Gumroad says it has paid out more than $1 billion to creators.	Live
Compare Hacken Proof Live Generic platform	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Security bug bounties	Fees: HackenProof does not advertise a single public fee schedule; commercial terms appear to be programme-specific.	Activity signal: HackenProof currently advertises 200+ bug bounty programmes, more than $15.7 million paid out, and 25,000+ reports received.	Live
Compare HackerOne Live Generic platform	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Security bug bounties	Fees: For eligible open source Community Edition programs, HackerOne says the platform is free and only charges a 5% payment processing fee on paid bounties.	Activity signal: Over 1,700 customer programs and over 600,000 ethical hackers have signed up	Live
Compare Hit Chain Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Decentralized ecosystem of services, governance and funding	Fees: A public fee schedule could not be validated from surviving sources.	Activity signal: The original developer protocol appears inactive. Surviving public material describes a rebrand to HitHub and an emphasis on token incentives, code hosting, and open-source node programs.	Historical
Compare Hopsie Live Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations, campaigns	Fees: Hopsie sells on monthly plans starting around $49 and says it does not take an additional percentage of donations beyond the payment processor's fees.	Activity signal: Hopsie's public site emphasizes its nonprofit customer base, donor-management tooling, and peer-to-peer fundraising features, but it does not publish a clear platform-wide customer count.	Live
Compare Houdini Live Generic platform	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Self-hosted donation and fundraising infrastructure	Fees: Houdini is self-hosted software. There is no platform fee, though implementers still pay their chosen payment processors and hosting costs.	Activity signal: The GitHub project currently shows 227 stars, 97 forks, and an actively maintained pre-2.0 codebase in heavy development.	Live
Compare Indiegogo Live Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Campaign crowdfunding and InDemand post-campaign sales	Fees: Indiegogo charges a 5% platform fee on funds raised, plus payment-processing fees that vary by currency and payment method.	Activity signal: Indiegogo says its community includes more than 9 million backers and has helped bring more than 800,000 ideas to life.	Live
Compare IndieMaker Live Generic platform	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Commission from sales	Fees: Indiemaker's current pricing says listing is free and a success fee starts at 2% when a project sells. Premium subscriptions start around $25 per month.	Activity signal: Indiemaker's current public marketplace shows active listings across domains, newsletters, communities, and micro-SaaS products, but it does not publish a defensible platform-wide member count.	Live
Compare Infatica Live Generic platform	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Proxy subscriptions, pay-as-you-go plans, and referral revenue share	Fees: Public pricing starts at $4 per GB for pay-as-you-go proxy access, with larger monthly packages and custom enterprise plans.	Activity signal: Current public materials highlight more than 40 million ethically sourced proxy IPs across 195 countries.	Live
Compare Issue Hunt Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Issue based bounties	Fees: IssueHunt's terms say 10% of the amount paid by the funding user is applied to the company's fee before the remaining deposit is assigned to the issue.	Activity signal: IssueHunt says more than 12,000 projects have participated on the platform.	Live
Compare IT Sphere Historical Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Blockchain fundraising and ecosystem participation	Fees: A public fee model could not be validated from surviving sources.	Activity signal: The original service is no longer active and surviving public references are sparse. Available descriptions frame it as a blockchain business ecosystem rather than a mature operating marketplace.	Historical
Compare Katalyse Historical Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Token-sale fundraising and listing services	Fees: A definitive public fee schedule could not be validated from surviving sources.	Activity signal: The original product is no longer active. Surviving public materials describe it as a fundraising and token-issuance platform that later merged into a broader digital-asset ecosystem.	Historical
Compare Kauri Historical Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Tipping content creators	Fees: The archive explains the old incentive model but does not present a live fee schedule because the product has been deactivated.	Activity signal: Kauri's own site now describes itself as an archive and says the platform in its original form has been deactivated.	Historical
Compare Kickstarter Live Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Crowdfunding campaigns with target goal	Fees: Kickstarter charges a 5% platform fee on successful projects, plus payment-processing fees that are roughly 3%-5% depending on pledge size and country.	Activity signal: Kickstarter currently reports $9.2 billion pledged, 287,145 successfully funded projects, and 24.7 million total backers.	Live
Compare Ko-fi Live Verified Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations, crowdfunding, paywall, commissions (unique work)	Fees: Ko-fi markets 0%-5% service fees. One-time support can be fee-free on some plans, while commissions and other commerce features can carry a 5% platform fee plus normal card-processing charges.	Activity signal: Ko-fi says more than 1 million creators use the platform.	Live
Compare Leanpub Live Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Self-publishing of books and courses	Fees: Leanpub says authors earn 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% minus a $0.50 flat fee on lower-priced purchases.	Activity signal: Leanpub says authors can earn up to 80% royalties and that the platform has paid out more than $14 million to authors.	Live
Compare Liberapay Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations	Fees: Liberapay does not charge its own platform fee. Its FAQ says average payment-processing fees in the last year were about 3.1% through Stripe and 5% through PayPal.	Activity signal: Liberapay's public stats currently report 148,420 total users, with the last weekly payday transferring about $24.9k between 15,987 users.	Live
Compare LibreSelery Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Automated donation integrated into continuous integration	Fees: Coinbase fee for buying or selling cryptocurrency. Sending between coinbase wallets is for free.	Activity signal: About 3000€ have already been distributed with LibreSelery	Live
Compare License Zero Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Dual licensing model with selling private licenses	Fees: 1% of gross sales	Activity signal: The main site is no longer available. Surviving public material describes License Zero as a Stripe-connected vending machine for dual licensing and paid relicensing.	Historical
Compare Lyfevest Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Support through subscription	Fees: Historical pricing references described plans starting around $299.99 per month and reaching roughly $2,399.99 per year.	Activity signal: The current lyfevest.io site now advertises an unrelated family-document product, so the original OSS-support concept could not be validated as an active service.	Historical
Compare Memberful Live Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Paywall for websites and membership monetization	Fees: Memberful's Standard plan is currently $49 per month plus a 4.9% transaction fee, with enterprise pricing available separately.	Activity signal: Current public materials position Memberful as a mature membership platform with hosted newsletters, communities, and website paywalls.	Live
Compare MemberSpace Live Generic platform	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Paywall for websites and membership monetization	Fees: MemberSpace currently markets plans starting at about $39 per month plus a small transaction fee when you sell a product.	Activity signal: MemberSpace says 10,000+ creators, entrepreneurs, and business owners have used the platform and that customers have earned over $300 million.	Live
Compare NLnet Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grant funding and support services for open technologies	Fees: NLnet is a grantmaker, not a marketplace. Applicants do not pay a platform fee to apply for or receive funding.	Activity signal: NLnet says the NGI Zero coalition has supported over one thousand free and open source projects overall, including 314 projects in the Commons Fund alone.	Live
Compare NouGit Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Decentralized bounties and rewards	Fees: 2.9% per transaction including any currency exchange and processing.	Activity signal: 0	Historical
Compare NumFOCUS Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Open source project grants funded through donations	Fees: NumFOCUS is a nonprofit sponsor and grantmaker, not a commercial platform with a standard user fee.	Activity signal: NumFOCUS currently supports dozens of sponsored and affiliated projects across the scientific Python and data ecosystem.	Live
Compare Open Collective Live Verified OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donations, sponsorships	Fees: Independent collectives can use the platform without a platform fee. Hosted collectives usually pay a host fee of roughly 4%-10%, while Open Collective earns optional tips and a share of host-fee revenue.	Activity signal: Open Collective says it supports more than 10,000 collectives, over 1 million contributions received, and more than $40 million managed.	Live
Compare Open Gift Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Bounties and collective financing of software components	Fees: The current site does not publish a clear platform fee schedule.	Activity signal: OpenGift currently shows 903 developers, 111 open software parts, 221 closed tasks, and a listed bounty fund of $5,834.	Live
Compare Open Source Coin Historical OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Decentralized infrastructure for projects	Fees: A current fee or value-capture model could not be validated from surviving public material.	Activity signal: The original website could not be validated during this audit and surviving public references point to an abandoned or dormant project rather than a live network.	Historical
Compare Open Source Design Live OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Design jobs board, collaboration opportunities, and community support	Fees: Open Source Design is primarily a community and jobs/resource hub rather than a paid platform with a standard fee.	Activity signal: The site archives more than 150 jobs and project postings alongside events, articles, and design-community resources.	Live
Compare Open Source Lab Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Donations, sponsorships, and hosted infrastructure support	Fees: OSUOSL is a nonprofit hosting provider and does not publish a standard commercial fee schedule.	Activity signal: Current OSUOSL materials describe support for more than 500 FOSS projects and roughly 1,000 hosted sub-projects.	Live
Compare Open Source Security Foundation Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grants for selected projects	Fees: OpenSSF is a foundation initiative and grant ecosystem, not a commercial platform with a user fee.	Activity signal: Alpha-Omega, an OpenSSF-associated directed fund, issued nearly $6 million in grants in 2024 to improve security in critical open source projects.	Live
Compare OpenTeams Live OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Custom AI solutions, implementation services, and enterprise engagements	Fees: OpenTeams sells custom solutions and services; there is no public marketplace fee schedule.	Activity signal: Current public materials emphasize enterprise case studies and reference customers rather than marketplace participant counts.	Live
Compare Opire Live OSS-specific	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties	Fees: 4% platform fee + Stripe processing fee, paid by bounty creators on top of bounty amount	Activity signal: The public site currently highlights a live set of dozens of open bounties and published fee rules for bounties and tips.	Live
Compare Otechie Emerging OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Real time, paid chat support	Fees: Current public pricing details could not be validated in this pass.	Activity signal: 0	Emerging
Compare Patreon Live Verified Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Regular donations	Fees: Patreon's current standard plan is 10% for new creators. Older legacy creators may still be on Founders 5%, Pro 8%, or Pro + Merch 11%, plus payment-processing, currency-conversion, payout, and tax-related fees.	Activity signal: Patreon says more than 10 million fans pay for memberships each month, over 300,000 creators use the platform, and creators have earned more than $10 billion.	Live
Compare Permissionless Software Foundation Live OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Token liquidity, consulting, SaaS-style services, and community funding	Fees: PSF uses token and service economics rather than a single commercial platform fee.	Activity signal: The public site currently highlights several funded software projects plus consulting and token-liquidity mechanisms.	Live
Compare Pledgecamp Emerging Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Decentralized crowdfunding	Fees: The current documentation focuses on architecture and token mechanics rather than a simple public fee table.	Activity signal: Pledgecamp's documentation is still maintained and its smart-contract docs are current, but a clearly active public crowdfunding marketplace could not be validated.	Emerging
Compare Pond Live Generic platform	Funding	Bounties	Monetization: Bounties, hackathon campaigns, and startup launch support	Fees: Pond publishes bounty terms and campaign rules, but it does not advertise a single public platform fee schedule across all programs.	Activity signal: Pond's docs say it has hosted nearly 20 hackathons and exposed partners to an audience of more than 3,000 developers and hackers.	Live
Compare PrivJs Live OSS-specific	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Paid npm packages, subscriptions, and premium developer tooling	Fees: Package prices range from free to recurring subscriptions and one-time purchases; the public site does not expose a single standard seller fee on listing pages.	Activity signal: The current public marketplace lists a large catalog of paid and free packages, with visible download counts ranging from single digits to hundreds of thousands.	Live
Compare Radicle Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Developer infrastructure funded by grants and ecosystem backing	Fees: Radicle is free open source infrastructure rather than a paid platform with a user fee.	Activity signal: Radicle shipped multiple releases in 2025 and early 2026, including Radicle Desktop and version 1.6.0, with an active core team and outside contributors.	Live
Compare Repo.trade Emerging Generic platform	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Repository token auctions and trading-fee sharing	Fees: Repo.trade's docs say trading fees are split 50/50 between repository owners and the protocol after a repository token moves into the swap phase.	Activity signal: The public product is still waitlist-style, but the whitepaper and docs were updated in early 2026 and describe an active tokenization and fee-sharing model.	Emerging
Compare Saasify Historical Generic platform	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: A cut from users running your project on the SaaS platform	Fees: The original pitch was free for early adopters with a later planned 20% cut and special pricing for open source projects. The hosted product is now discontinued.	Activity signal: The hosted platform has been shut down. Public package metadata notes a 2022 shutdown while the open-source npm package remains as a historical artifact.	Historical
Compare Scarf Live OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: OSS usage analytics and lead-generation tooling	Fees: Scarf's public starter plan is free and includes 3 monthly tracked companies. Additional seats cost $30 per month and extra tracked companies cost $3 each on the self-serve plan.	Activity signal: Scarf reported just over 240 million open source package downloads in one 2023 quarter across projects using its gateway.	Live
Compare Season of Docs Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Single payment stipend for writers and open source projects	Fees: Organizations receive grant funding; they do not pay a platform fee.	Activity signal: Current program materials describe grants of $5,000 to $15,000 for accepted organizations per documentation project.	Live
Compare Shukran Live Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Digital tips and team tip jars	Fees: The current public site does not publish a standard fee schedule.	Activity signal: Shukran reports 100+ hotel partners across Kenya, Tanzania, and Botswana.	Live
Compare Snowdrift Emerging OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Donations with matching limits	Fees: Snowdrift's public materials describe the crowdmatching model and cooperative structure, but not a final public fee schedule.	Activity signal: Snowdrift says the platform is functioning with initial pledging to itself as the first test project while outside-project onboarding remains a future milestone.	Emerging
Compare Software Freedom Conservancy Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Fiscal sponsorship, donations, and nonprofit project services	Fees: Conservancy's fiscal sponsorship agreement says it keeps 10% of most member-project revenue and donations for general operations, with higher fees occasionally negotiated for event-focused projects.	Activity signal: Conservancy currently describes itself as home to nearly fifty member projects and publishes active project-services and donation programs.	Live
Compare Software in the Public Interest Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Donation based sponsorship of non-technical administrative tasks	Fees: SPI acts as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor; donors and associated projects are not charged a marketplace-style platform fee.	Activity signal: SPI continues to fiscally sponsor dozens of associated open source projects and accepts both general and project-directed donations.	Live
Compare SourceCred Emerging OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Contribution accounting and reward allocation	Fees: SourceCred is open source tooling. Communities decide how, or whether, to fund reward pools distributed through Cred and Grain.	Activity signal: SourceCred's public 'Who Uses Us' page currently lists at least 10 communities using the system, while the docs still describe the project as undergoing a major transition.	Emerging
Compare Sovereign Tech Fund Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grants for selected projects	Fees: The fund provides grants; applicants do not pay a platform fee.	Activity signal: The pilot-phase evaluation describes funding for approximately 30 projects per year with grants of roughly EUR50,000 to EUR500,000.	Live
Compare StackAid Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Cut from monthly subscription	Fees: Fee is 1/n where n is # of dependencies, max 7.5%	Activity signal: StackAid currently reports 2,034 organizations and 4,338 individual projects in its funding graph.	Live
Compare Staroid Live OSS-specific	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: A cut from users running your project on the SaaS platform	Fees: Historical public materials described a 20% share of usage revenue for the platform.	Activity signal: Recent public materials describe a limited catalog of hosted templates and Python tooling, but do not publish current marketplace scale.	Live
Compare Status Live OSS-specific	Funding	Grants	Monetization: Grants, contributor funding, and ecosystem support programs	Fees: Status is an ecosystem funding program, not a public marketplace with a platform fee.	Activity signal: Status public materials describe more than 90 core contributors across its protocol, client, and mobile workstreams.	Live
Compare Storj Network Live Generic platform	Project support	Infrastructure	Monetization: Infrastructure sales, partner revenue share, and node-operator payouts	Fees: Historical open-source partner materials referenced revenue-share deals, but current public partner pages emphasize negotiated partner economics rather than a single fixed share.	Activity signal: Storj community data in late 2025 referenced roughly 12,700 subnets with active nodes, while public partner materials continue to position Storj as a broad distributed-cloud partner program.	Live
Compare Substack Live Verified Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Paid newsletters, memberships, and other subscription publishing	Fees: Substack charges 10% of paid subscription revenue, with additional Stripe and payment-method fees depending on checkout method.	Activity signal: More than 100,000 people pay to subscribe to writers across the Substack	Live
Compare Teachable Live Verified Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Sales of courses, coaching, digital downloads, and memberships	Fees: Current plans range from $29 to $399 per month when billed annually, with 7.5% transaction fees on Starter and 0% platform fees on higher tiers.	Activity signal: Teachable says more than 150,000 creators use the platform to sell knowledge products.	Live
Compare Thanks Live OSS-specific	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Express need of support for maintainers	Fees: Thanks is a donation-discovery CLI, not a payment platform.	Activity signal: The npm package remains publicly available and still records ongoing weekly downloads, even though the last publish was several years ago.	Live
Compare Tidelift Live Verified OSS-specific	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Enterprise subscriptions that fund maintainer work and assurances	Fees: Tidelift sells enterprise subscriptions; public support materials do not present a single standard monthly list price for all customers.	Activity signal: Tidelift public materials describe support for 1,000+ backed projects and maintainers across major package ecosystems.	Live
Compare Tipeee Live Generic platform	Funding	Donations	Monetization: Tipping online creators	Fees: Commission is 8% including tax on the amounts collected each month.	Activity signal: Current public help-center materials document creator and project-funding flows across many European countries, but do not surface a simple current creator or tipper count.	Live
Compare Udemy Live Generic platform	Revenue	Content	Monetization: Sales of online video courses	Fees: Udemy instructors currently receive 97% of net revenue on instructor-promotion sales and 37% on organic marketplace sales; subscription revenue shares use separate formulas.	Activity signal: Udemy currently reports 84 million learners, 90,000 instructors, and more than 290,000 courses.	Live
Compare Upwork Live Generic platform	Revenue	Support & Services	Monetization: Freelance services marketplace	Fees: Freelancers generally pay a 10% service fee. Clients typically pay a 3%-5% Marketplace fee on Basic or 8%-10% on Business Plus, depending on billing method and plan.	Activity signal: Upwork reported 812,000 active clients in Q1 2025 and says the platform has facilitated more than $25 billion in economic opportunity for talent.	Live
Compare Utopian Historical OSS-specific	Funding	Crowdfunding	Monetization: Token rewards for accepted open source contributions	Fees: Utopian rewarded accepted contributions through blockchain-based payouts rather than charging a standard platform fee.	Activity signal: Archived project updates described more than 7,000 accepted contributions and more than 223,000 in rewards generated on Steem.	Historical
Compare XS Code Historical OSS-specific	Revenue	Commercial Access	Monetization: Dual licensing model for support and services	Fees: Launch materials described a 25% commission on subscription revenue.	Activity signal: Early public traction posts reported roughly 200 sign-ups soon after launch; the original platform no longer appears to be active.	Historical

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