Open Waters alternatives

Tools that do what Open Waters does, found by what they say they do rather than by shelf. Among the equally alike, the most used come first. Each line says how it differs from Open Waters.

Read 2026-10-21

With a free plan or free to use: FireCMS, NextAdmin, Ollama, Keploy, Browser Use, GitHub.

10 alternativesUnlike Open Waters

#1
Carbon Design System Developer tools MCP · sign-in
Provides IBM's open-source UI components, design tokens, icons and usage guidelines for building consistent product interfaces.
More widely used
26.1k
Active
1911
#2
FireCMS Developer tools MCP · sign-in
Open-source admin GUI that samples Firestore collections, infers field types, and generates editable tables and forms.
Free planCan run on your servers
617
Active
From ≈ $11/user/mo
#3
RefineAI Developer tools
Provides an open-source React framework for building admin panels, dashboards and internal CRUD tools on REST, GraphQL or Supabase backends, plus an app generator.
Also: Code generationMore widely used
46k
Active
From $0.99/mo
2021
#4
NextAdmin Developer tools
Provides Next.js admin dashboard components and templates designed for AI code editors to generate features from prompts.
Free planMore widely used
63
Active
From $89 once
#5
Ollama Developer tools
Runs open-source language models locally or in cloud, with API access for coding agents.
Free planCan run on your servers
193k
Active
From $20/mo
2023
#6
Microsoft Developer tools
Sells Windows, Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud services, plus Surface devices and Xbox consoles.
More widely used
135M
Active
1975
#7
Qt Group Developer tools MCP · open
Builds cross-platform GUI applications with C++ and QML libraries, plus an IDE, a UI design tool and code analysis and GUI test suites.
Also: ComplianceMore widely used
464k
1995
#8
Keploy Developer tools MCP · open
Captures production traffic to generate tests and mocks, replaying them to detect regressions.
Free planMore widely used
153k
Active
From $19/user/mo
2021
#9
Browser Use Developer tools
Provides remote browsers and an open-source library that let AI agents complete web tasks like booking, form filling and data extraction.
Free planAlso: Agents
14k
Active
From $5 per use
2024
#10
GitHub Developer tools
Hosts Git repositories with pull requests, code review, issue tracking and Actions pipelines for building, testing and deploying code.
Free planAlso: Workflow automation, Code generation
42M
From $4/user/mo
2007

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How this list is made: the words Open Waters is described with (what it does, for whom, what it is used for) are matched against every tool in the Atlas. A tool on the same shelf, or doing the same kind of work, counts for a little more. Nothing here is paid for.