AlternativeTo
AlternativeTo is a crowdsourced software discovery platform that helps users find alternatives to software products based on user recommendations across desktop, mobile, and web applications. The platform does not currently offer a public API, but provides partner integration opportunities for software vendors.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles AlternativeTo the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — AlternativeTo scores 12.7/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile AlternativeTo
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for AlternativeTo. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Features 4
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Software Alternative Discovery
Crowdsourced database of software alternatives with user voting, ratings, and comparisons across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
Platform Filtering
Filter alternatives by platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, Online) and license type (open source, free, commercial).
User Reviews and Ratings
Community-driven reviews and rating system for software products with likes and alternative recommendations.
Software Vendor Listings
Vendor-managed software listings with features, screenshots, and links for software discovery and comparison.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 3
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Software Discovery
Find alternatives to discontinued, expensive, or unavailable software products based on crowdsourced community recommendations.
Open Source Alternatives
Discover free and open source alternatives to commercial software products with platform filtering and license search.
Vendor Software Listing
Software vendors can list their products on AlternativeTo to reach users searching for alternatives to competing products.
Resources
Every other property we hold for AlternativeTo — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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