Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Apache Software Foundation

The 20 closest open-source software foundation alternatives to Apache Software Foundation, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Apache Software Foundation? The closest matches are Eclipse Foundation, OWASP and NLnet Labs. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation apache.org

Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

Wikidata: American nonprofit open-source software community

Top 1K · #144 English 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Apache Software Foundation

Summary by Claude

Nonprofit foundation that hosts and governs more than 290 open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server, Kafka, Spark, Iceberg and Hadoop, and incubates new ones. It also runs community conferences and publishes a newsletter and podcast.

Who it’s for
Open-source developers, contributors and organizations using open-source software
Business model
Donations and corporate sponsorships

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Apache Software Foundation’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Wikimedia movementKubernetesArchive of Our OwnOpen Source InitiativeHashiCorpOSFCodeberg e.V.NLnet LabsOWASPEclipse Foundation

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Apache Software Foundation

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Apache Software Foundation, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

  2. 02
    OWASP owasp.org Top 10K English

    OWASP Foundation - The Open Source Foundation for Application Security

    OWASP is the nonprofit behind the Top 10, ASVS, ZAP, and hundreds more free application security projects. Explore our tools, standards, local chapters, global events, and news from a community of 250+ chapters worldwide.

  3. 03
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  4. 04
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

  5. 05
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  6. 06
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  7. 07
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  8. 08
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

  9. 09
    Open Source Initiative opensource.org Top 10K English

    Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

    The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

  10. 10
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  11. 11
    Modrinth modrinth.com Top 10K English

    Modrinth

    Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.

  12. 12
    Kubernetes kubernetes.io Top 10K English

    Kubernetes

    Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.

  13. 13
    Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English

    Google Open Source

    Google <3 Open Source

  14. 14
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  15. 15
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  16. 16
    apachefriends.org Top 10K English

    XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends

    XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP and Perl.

  17. 17
    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English

    Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge

    SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

  18. 18
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English

    Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

    Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

  19. 19
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  20. 20
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English

    Let's Encrypt

    Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to apache.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Apache Software Foundation uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Apache Software Foundation is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://apache.org/js/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://apache.org/js/bootstrap.js
Analytics
  • Matomo page source: _paq.push(
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-hel1410028-HEL, cache-ber1080037-BER
Web servers
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ymLFB7Wz8ScIJsja5lQgqHkFZGayJH7z0M3DAUw…
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=VPemhDee0EKRXi0IPzeSUrn849jHevrjIaTeD…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=y9Wki74vQ-HO4aXrJ-TzmPvLf8itBqrQTPjyAHktuMo

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