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Open Apps
✓ verifiedFreemium

Curated directory of vetted open-source alternatives to paid SaaS, with health ratings and an OSS-migration service.

38K visits/mo
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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo
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venice.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Privacy-focused AI platform offering uncensored chat, image, video, and audio generation across many third-party and open-source models.

12M visits/mo26K saves
Pricing
Stack Audit: $499 (one-time)

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (10 text prompts/day, 15 image prompts/day)
Pro: $18/mo (unlimited text prompts, 1,000 images/day, 100 credits/month)
Pro Plus: $68/mo (7,500 credits/month)
Max: $200/mo (22,500 credits/month)
Core features
  • 680+ curated open-source apps
  • Five-metric health rating per app
  • Category and alternative browsing
  • Open-source ecosystem insights and reports
  • OSS migration consultancy service
  • Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
  • Open API platform
  • V-series and R-series reasoning models
  • DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
  • OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
  • Extensive published model lineup
  • Multi-provider chat, image, video, and audio generation
  • Zero data retention on private/self-hosted models
  • OpenAI-compatible API for agent integrations
  • Tiered privacy levels including TEE and end-to-end encryption
  • Uncensored open-source model access
  • Credit-based access to premium third-party models
Use cases
  • Finding open-source replacements for SaaS tools
  • Cutting software costs by self-hosting
  • Comparing open-source project health
  • Getting help migrating a SaaS stack
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Chatting or generating content without prompt logging
  • Building AI agents via an OpenAI-compatible API
  • Generating images or video with fewer content restrictions
  • Accessing many leading AI models under one subscription
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