OSSEAN

Plans and prices

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On the record

Audience

OSSEAN describes its audience as engineers and founders looking for open-source alternatives to tools they already pay for.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Billing and cancellation

Sponsorship is invoiced monthly in advance and can be cancelled before the next month with no notice period.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Classification

OSSEAN says its Jev classifier reads a repository’s name, description, and homepage to assign product categories.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Data source

The site says its data is updated daily from GitHub.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Directory scale

The homepage reported 728 open-source startups on October 9, 2026.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Integration

OSSEAN says it uses the GitHub API to check repository activity.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Listing independence

OSSEAN says payment cannot change a project’s ship status, ship score, leaderboard position, or presence on the silent list.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Project discovery

The directory lets visitors search by name, organization, language, or topic and browse by category.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Service refund

OSSEAN says it refunds a paid month pro rata if the site is down for more than a few days during that month.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Ship status

OSSEAN groups projects as still shipping, slowed, or gone silent based on how long it has been since a push or whether a repository is archived.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Sponsorship

Sponsors can buy one of twelve homepage tiles, and the displayed monthly prices range from $100 to $500.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

Sponsorship disclosure

Sponsored tiles carry a visible Sponsor tag, and their links use rel="sponsored noopener noreferrer".ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

What it is

OSSEAN is a directory of open-source startups that tracks whether each project is still shipping.ossean.com · read 9 Oct 2026

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