Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-05-28

OSS Alternatives is an independent directory operated by Yusuke Morinaga

(contact: mori7ga2222@gmail.com).

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

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Questions

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Transparency: AI usage, data, and corrections

Last updated: 2026-05-28

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 mori7ga2222@gmail.com

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 written and operated by Yusuke Morinaga, an independent developer based in Japan (GitHub: @mori7ga2222, mori7ga2222@gmail.com). More context — including the self-hosting background that informs the cost and migration ranges on this site — is on the About page, and the registered business mailing address is on the Contact page.