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Funding

Ways open source projects receive external financial support from users, companies, and institutions.

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Donations

Voluntary support from users, companies, and community members.

Amazon Smile

Amazon Smile

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

Beerpay

Allows simple funding development of existing or new features for Github based projects using Chrome extension.
Buy me Coffee

Buy me Coffee

Allows creators to receive support and share premium content with a link or a button on their website.
Flattr

Flattr

Supports multiple online creators with one single subscription or with one-time donations
Flossbank

Flossbank

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

FOSS Pay

A self hosted Python and PostgreSQL based donation collection platform for groups and individuals.
Fountain

Fountain

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

GitHub Sponsors

Allows the developer community to financially support the people who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
Hopsie

Hopsie

Allows fundraising through donation campaigns and follow up with marketing campaigns.
Houdini

Houdini

Houdini is an all-in-one, self-hosted, open source fundraising software developed in Ruby on Rails.
Kauri

Kauri

A decentralized technical knowledge base for the Ethereum ecosystem by incentivising creators and the community.
Ko-fi

Ko-fi

A friendly way to ask fans to support your work for the price of a coffee.
Liberapay

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform where people who benefit from free work support creators.
LibreSelery

LibreSelery

Continuous and automated donation distribution to your project contributors and dependencies. Integrated into Github Actions
Open Collective

Open Collective

Provides tools for collectives to receive money and mechanisms to spend their money in a transparent way.
Open Gift

Open Gift

Allows open source consumers to send requests for implementations to the open source project teams.
Patreon

Patreon

Empowers membership businesses for creators through regular donations.
Radicle

Radicle

A peer-to-peer decentralized stack for building and sustaining open source software together
Shukran

Shukran

Enables creators get earnings through tips from people who enjoy their creative work regardless of audience size or algorithm.
Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy

A not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend FLOSS projects.
Software in the Public Interest

Software in the Public Interest

A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
SourceCred

SourceCred

A tool for attributing credit to contributions based on metrics that describes how important they were.
StackAid

StackAid

Distributes your subscription fee among your projects’ direct and indirect dependencies based on your project configuration.
Thanks

Thanks

A tool that helps you see if any of the software you depend on has authors seeking for donations
Tipeee

Tipeee

Tipeee is a financing platform for Internet content creators allowing them to receive tips from their communities.

Crowdfunding

Campaign-based or pooled support from a broader community.

Commit Change

Commit Change

A hosted fundraising platform (based on Houdini listed below) for people at all technical skill levels with possibility to get assistance from the support team too.
Commons Stack

Commons Stack

Commons-based microeconomies to sustain public goods through a library of open-source decentralized components.
Community Bridge

Community Bridge

A Linux Foundation project to help advance sustainability, security, and diversity in open source technology by enabling developers to raise and spend funding.
Dev Protocol

Dev Protocol

Dev protocol is a decentralized middleware that enhances individual activities and supports sustainability through staking.
FairOSS

FairOSS

FairOSS is a public benefit corporation with a mission to sustain the production and maintenance of freely shareable intellectual property.
Fundition

Fundition

Fundition is a decentralized, peer-to-peer crowdfunding and collaboration platform, built on the Steem blockchain.
Goteo

Goteo

A collective financing and distributed collaboration platform for projects for giving individual rewards, and generating collective returns.
Hit Chain

Hit Chain

A developer autonomous community that bring together developers, investors and IT experts.
Indiegogo

Indiegogo

A crowdfunding and on demand campaigning platform with marketplace.
Kickstarter

Kickstarter

Kickstarter helps artists, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality.
NouGit

NouGit

NouGit is an open source development accelarator platform with market place and social networking features combined.
Open Source Coin

Open Source Coin

A decentralized network run by the community and contributors, with a sustainable economy and value redistribution.
Permissionless Software Foundation

Permissionless Software Foundation

Permissionless Software Foundation is decentralized autonomous organization with the purpose to foster the growth of open source software.
Pledgecamp

Pledgecamp

Pledgecamp is a decentralized ecosystem for crowdfunding with blockchain protected investments.
Repo.trade

Repo.trade

Launch a tradable repo token in one click and earn passive income from trading fees.
Snowdrift

Snowdrift

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

Utopian

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

Grants

Institutional or programmatic funding for specific open source outcomes.

Bounties

Task-based funding for issues, features, audits, and contribution work.

Algora

Algora

Algora is a developer tool & community simplifying bounties, hiring & open source sustainability.
BEPRO Network

BEPRO Network

Bepro is a task-based marketplace created to help organizations and builders thrive.
Blocklancer

Blocklancer

Blocklancer is a freelancing platform on the Blockchain that enables the cooperation between the freelancer and the clients.
Bounties Network

Bounties Network

Decentralized task based bounty platform with Ethereum based staking and arbitration.
Bountify

Bountify

Bountify is a marketplace for bounties on solutions to coding problems and tough tech questions.
Bounty Source

Bounty Source

Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software by creating/collecting bounties and pledging to fundraisers.
BountyHub

BountyHub

BountyHub is a platform where developers can put bounties on their Github issues or earn money by solving them.
Bugmark

Bugmark

A platform, used to conduct research into the use of incentives and prediction markets and tooling for open-source projects.
Coinlancer

Coinlancer

Allows freelancers and clients connect remotely through smart contracts and exchange digital services for monetary value.
Fiverr

Fiverr

Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance to offer digital services to customers worldwide.
Fund Request

Fund Request

A decentralised marketplace for requesting development bug fixes, security audits, etc to the Open Source developer community.
Gitcoin

Gitcoin

Gitcoin is the easiest way to leverage the open source community to incentivize or monetize work.
Gitpay

Gitpay

An issue bounty platform for Git-powered projects with an integrated payment system.
Giveth

Giveth

Decentralized transparent not-for-profit donation platform supporting open source projects with Ethereum donations.
Hacken Proof

Hacken Proof

A decentralized bug bounty platform for cybersecurity and cooperation between ethical hackers and customers.
HackerOne

HackerOne

HackerOne is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers.
Issue Hunt

Issue Hunt

Allows open source project owners to fund Github issues and developers to hunt the issues.
IT Sphere

IT Sphere

We bring together digital products developers, outsource developers, investors and IT experts.
Katalyse

Katalyse

Allows project creators to raise funds and kickstart their projects. The focus of the platform is moving into launching and listing ICOs.
Open Source Design

Open Source Design

A community of designers and developers pushing open design processes and improving design of open source software.
Opire

Opire

Opire is a bounty platform where anyone can put bounties on any GitHub issue, which are only paid out once resolved.
Pond

Pond

Earn rewards for completing bounties in a high-quality, impactful manner.
Status

Status

Blockchain and crypto focused bounties platform.
Upwork

Upwork

Upwork connects businesses of all sizes to freelancers, independent professionals, and agencies for all their hiring needs.

Revenue

Ways maintainers and teams earn income by selling expertise, access, content, or audience value.

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Support & Services

Revenue from support, consulting, implementation, SLAs, and expert help.

BackYourStack

BackYourStack

Analyzes your open source software dependencies to find which projects you rely on, and then provides a way for you to easily support them all.
CodeBuddy

CodeBuddy

CodeBuddy plugs into your IDE, understands your problem’s context, and instantly matches you with subject matter experts.
Codementor

Codementor

Codementor is an on-demand marketplace for software developers with live 1:1 help, long-term mentorship, freelance jobs and code reviews.
Ellcrys

Ellcrys

Decentralized censorship-resistant Git hosting service and monetization platform through paid feature branches and bug fixes.
Fundabit

Fundabit

Monthly subscription platform supporting creative through blockchain technology that let’s creators get paid in crypto.
GitFund

GitFund

Open source project sponsorship platform for tiered support such as Gold, Silver, Bronze sponsors, etc.
Lyfevest

Lyfevest

Connecting enterprise developers who are using open source with the contributors who are creating open source.
OpenTeams

OpenTeams

OpenTeams is the services marketplace where open source software users can find, vet, and contract with service providers.
Otechie

Otechie

Otechie is a professional chat widget and messenger designed to help you collaborate with your clients.
Tidelift

Tidelift

Professional assurances directly from the open source experts who know it best.

Commercial Access

Revenue from licensing, premium access, hosted usage, or open-core packaging.

Content

Revenue from books, courses, learning products, and expert content.

Advertising

Revenue from sponsorships, ad inventory, or audience attention.

Operational Support

Programs and tools that reduce infrastructure cost, workflow burden, or operational overhead.

Path overview

Infrastructure

Credits, hosting, and operational support that lower the cost of running OSS.

Events

Programs and platforms that support OSS through events, participation, and community workflows.

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