From the source
A quarterly ranking of the fastest-growing open source organizations, measured with a transparent, reproducible methodology.
The site, the data, and the scoring code are all open source.
The first edition covers Q1 2026 and is live now.
Open source has a ranking problem.
Most "top open source" lists rank by raw totals: stars, downloads, contributors.
Those are real signals, and they accumulate for good reasons.
They also tell you who was big yesterday, not who is growing today.
The list of fastest-growing open source projects looks nothing like the list of largest ones, and right now there is no good way to find it.
We've been working with >commit on creating the definitive ranking of open-source projects.
What stood out in Q1 2026 # A few observations from this quarter's data: Openclaw was the breakout story of the quarter.
It crossed the Scaling threshold by 236 stars on January 1 and finished the quarter at 365,000.
It went from 29 contributors to 1,383, and from zero package downloads to 16.7 million.
Growth like that almost never happens at this scale.
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