Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-05-10

OSS Alternatives is an independent directory operated by SEO Farm

(contact: [email protected]).

We keep the site free by using **affiliate links**.

What this means

Some links on this site to third-party stores, tools, or services are affiliate

links. If you click one and make a purchase or sign up, we may earn a commission

**at no additional cost to you**. The price you pay is never affected by whether

a link is an affiliate link.

How we mark them

Affiliate and sponsored outbound links use `rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"`.

We do **not** run Google AdSense or any personalized advertising network on this site, and we set no first-party tracking cookies.

Editorial independence

Listings, rankings, and editorial summaries are generated from public data

sources (GitHub public API) and our own ranking criteria. A vendor

paying an affiliate commission does **not** buy placement, a higher ranking, or

a more favorable summary. We are not affiliated with the vendors, projects, or

products listed beyond these standard affiliate programs.

Programs we may participate in

Amazon Associates and other reputable affiliate / referral programs relevant to

the topics we cover. "As an Amazon Associate we may earn from qualifying

purchases."

Questions

Email [email protected] and

we will respond within 14 days.

Transparency: AI usage, data, and corrections

Last updated: 2026-05-10

What is generated by AI vs. written by hand

AI-generated (Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Haiku 4.5 via the Anthropic API or Claude Code): per-SaaS intro paragraphs, pros/cons framing, "who should use this / who should skip" decision cues, and FAQ phrasing on the comparison pages.

Deterministic / templated (no AI): alternative cards (name, stars, license, language, last-pushed date), sort order, the "X of N shipped a commit in the last 12 months" line, and the curation gate that decides which pages get indexed.

Human-written or human-edited: this page, the About, the Methodology, the Privacy Policy, the Terms, the Contact page, and per-alternative honest-tradeoff takes when they appear on a comparison page.

Full details — including what AI models reliably get wrong and how to spot it — are on the Methodology page (AI & human roles).

Data sources and update frequency

Primary source: the public GitHub REST API (api.github.com) — repository metadata, stars, license, primary language, and the pushed_at timestamp.

Refresh cadence: a nightly ETL pipeline (cron-driven) re-fetches the metadata and the site is rebuilt automatically. Editorial polish (the AI-generated intros) is re-run on a weekly cadence for pages that previously used the templated fallback.

Lag: star counts, last-pushed dates, and license fields can be up to ~24 hours behind GitHub at any given moment. License classification follows the SPDX id returned by GitHub; ambiguous or missing licenses are rendered as "Unknown" rather than guessed.

Not used: package-registry download counts, social-media mentions, or paid ranking signals.

How to report an error or request a correction

If something is wrong on a comparison page — incorrect license, an archived project we're still treating as active, a missing major alternative, a broken upstream link — please tell us:

Email [email protected]

Prefix the subject line with [correction]

Include the page URL, what is wrong, and (if possible) a link to a primary source for the correct value

We acknowledge within 5 business days and aim to ship factual corrections within 14 days. Project maintainers who want their project removed from the index can use the same address with the [removal] prefix; see the Contact page for the verification steps we require to confirm ownership.

Who runs this site

OSS Alternatives is operated by mori7ga2222 (GitHub, [email protected]), an independent developer based in Japan. More context — including the self-hosting background that informs our cost and migration ranges, and the other sites the same operator runs — is on the About page.