GitHub Sponsors & Open Source Monetization

2026-10-08

Stride, Morphe, FastEndpoints, PHP_CodeSniffer: four ledgers past $1,000 a month, and the studio, the crowd, the payroll fund and the corporate table behind them

Four open-source projects whose public ledgers carried more than $1,000 a month this quarter — a game engine, an Android patcher, a .NET API framework and the PHP coding-standard tool — and the four different payers behind them: one game studio, 367 five-dollar backers, a fund that pays a maintainer a monthly wage, and a company that supplies most of another project's income.

GitHub Sponsors & Open Source Monetization

Elmo, MausBot, OpenShorts: three open-source apps that sell hosting, and the 17, 117 and 96 customers paying for the meter

CoMaps, cobalt, Forgejo, F-Droid: four accounts above $1,000 a month on Liberapay, out of 1,773 that take money there

Stride, Morphe, FastEndpoints, PHP_CodeSniffer: four ledgers past $1,000 a month, and the studio, the crowd, the payroll fund and the corporate table behind them

GoToSocial, Knip, Mantine: three projects past $1,000 a month, and the crowd, the single sponsor and the corporate tier behind them

gpx.studio, Rotorflight, Basis: three projects past $1,000 a month, and the donors, vendors and one departing sponsor behind them

PegaProx, npmx, Mapterhorn, Bazzite: four sponsorship programs past $1,000/month, and the four payers behind them

Yaak, Capgo, Atomic Bot, React Bits Pro: four payment-verified OSS monetization models

Three independent OSS projects with public money above $1k/month — and what that number does not mean

Three independent open-source projects above $1k/month — and the payer each one built around

Three open-source products past $1k/month, with three different payers

Three open-source web tools that crossed $1k/month by selling the layer around the code

Two projects past $1k — a Rust async runtime and a 10-year Japanese NLP maintainer

GitHub Sponsors & Open Source Monetization

Elmo, MausBot, OpenShorts: three open-source apps that sell hosting, and the 17, 117 and 96 customers paying for the meter

CoMaps, cobalt, Forgejo, F-Droid: four accounts above $1,000 a month on Liberapay, out of 1,773 that take money there

Stride, Morphe, FastEndpoints, PHP_CodeSniffer: four ledgers past $1,000 a month, and the studio, the crowd, the payroll fund and the corporate table behind them

GoToSocial, Knip, Mantine: three projects past $1,000 a month, and the crowd, the single sponsor and the corporate tier behind them

gpx.studio, Rotorflight, Basis: three projects past $1,000 a month, and the donors, vendors and one departing sponsor behind them

PegaProx, npmx, Mapterhorn, Bazzite: four sponsorship programs past $1,000/month, and the four payers behind them

Yaak, Capgo, Atomic Bot, React Bits Pro: four payment-verified OSS monetization models

Three independent OSS projects with public money above $1k/month — and what that number does not mean

Three independent open-source projects above $1k/month — and the payer each one built around

Three open-source products past $1k/month, with three different payers

Three open-source web tools that crossed $1k/month by selling the layer around the code

Two projects past $1k — a Rust async runtime and a 10-year Japanese NLP maintainer