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name: OpenAlternative
domain: openalternative.co
kind: directory
relation: lists
segment: recurring billing and subscription management
descGrounded: 0.32
---

# OpenAlternative

A directory that indexes open-source alternatives to proprietary software, listing tools by category and showing GitHub metrics.

**Route:** surfaced by the recurring billing and subscription management lane's de-branded queries → lists to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** It indexes vendors in this market (e.g. payment infrastructure) among hundreds of other software categories, letting buyers compare open-source options including those that could substitute for Stripe.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software

> Browse : Tools Alternatives Categories Tech Stacks Tags Licenses

**Edges:**

- lists [[exalate-com]]
- lists [[hyperswitch-io]]
- lists [[stripe-com]]
