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AlternativeTo

A crowdsourced directory where you look up an app and get a list of alternatives, filtered by platform, license and features, with user votes and comments.

Type in any paid tool you use and you often find a free or open-source replacement ranked by other users.

Non-commercial

Open alternativeto.net ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: No official API
Data download: No bulk download found
License: AlternativeTo Terms of Use Site content and listings; data use beyond browsing and citation needs permission
Commercial use: Non-commercial only
“use the site to build a competing database from our content” alternativeto.net/about/terms/
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free

Read on AlternativeTo's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

No official API, SDK or MCP server; terms ban bulk scraping beyond robots.txt and building a competing database, so link to alternativeto.net/software/<app>/ pages instead and ask hello@alternativeto.net for data use.
Do not scrape or bulk-download beyond robots.txt
Do not build a competing database from its content; contact the maker for data use

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/alternativeto/agent.md before using AlternativeTo.

What you can build

A 'find an open-source replacement' link next to each tool in your own app list
A browser bookmarklet that opens the AlternativeTo page for the current site's product

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