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24 alternatives to Cosmo – OSS Alternative to Apollo Federation / GraphOS

The open-source solution to building, maintaining, and collaborating on GraphQL Federation at Scale. The alternative to Apollo Studio and GraphOS. - wundergraph/cosmo

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cosmo – OSS Alternative to Apollo Federation / GraphOS launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Build and run your supergraph with governance and no lock-in. WunderGraph Cosmo is the open-source, enterprise-ready platform for teams scaling from the first subgraph to thousands of daily operations.

    2023 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and run your supergraph with governance and no lock-in. WunderGraph Cosmo is the open-source, enterprise-ready platform for teams scaling from the first subgraph to thousands of daily operations.

    2021 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and run your supergraph with governance and no lock-in. WunderGraph Cosmo is the open-source, enterprise-ready platform for teams scaling from the first subgraph to thousands of daily operations.

    2020 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I have been making this Cozo database since half a year ago, and now it is ready for public release. My initial motivation is that I want a graph database. Lightweight and easy to use, like SQLite. Powerful and performant, like Postgres. I found none of the existing solutions good enough. Deciding to roll my own, I need to choose a query language. I am familiar with Cypher but consider it not much of an improvement over CTE in SQL (Cypher is sometimes notationally more convenient, but not more expressive). I like Gremlin but would prefer something more declarative. Experimentations…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Open Source Platform to build, manage, & integrate APIs

    2022 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲264

    The GraphQL CMS

    2017 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Outverse▲512

    Forum and custom space builder, for your community

    2022 · outverse.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲310

    The original GraphQL CMS, evolved.

    2020 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    3500+ UI elements, copy the code or use in Figma

    2023 · uiverse.io · its alternatives →

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    WunderBase is an open source Serverless GraphQL database built on SQLite, Firecracker, and Prisma. Sleep mode saves cost—perfect for fast, lightweight apps.

    2022 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →

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    A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The fully-featured GraphQL Server

    2022 · the-guild.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud logging + visualization tools for robotic development

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Original GraphQL CMS, reimagined ✨

    2018 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Cookieless web analytics built into your CMS

    2023 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're a YC startup building an open-source, privacy-first alternative to Perplexity Comet. No invite system unlike bunch of others – you can download it today from our website or GitHub: https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS --- Why bother building an alternative? We believe browsers will become the new operating systems, where we offload much bunch of our work to AI agents. But these agents will have access to all your sensitive data – emails, docs, on top of your browser history. Open-source, privacy-first alternatives need to exist. We're not a search or ad…

    2025 · browseros.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Tony, founder of Cosmic (a headless CMS). We just open-sourced a CLI that covers the full lifecycle of a content-driven app from creating the content model to deploying to production to updating the codebase all without leaving the terminal. Here's what the full workflow looks like: # Create a project with an AI-generated content model cosmic projects create # → "A recipe blog with recipes, categories, and authors" # Generate content cosmic content -p "Create 5 recipes with images across different categories" # Build a full-stack app wired to your content cosmic build -p "A modern…

    Feb 2026 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN Community. We're Bjorn, Dustin, Stefan & Jens, the founders of WunderGraph. More than two years ago, Jens started WunderGraph as a Side Project. The initial idea was to solve the problem of integrating multiple disparate DataSources into a single, unified API Layer. While solving this problem, Jens realized that his mental model of APIs was wrong. Most API tools treat APIs as abstract things or just endpoints, in a very imperative way. At some point, he realized that there's a better model to think about APIs: APIs are dependencies and we should treat them in a declarative way! And…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    a client-side CMS for editing GitHub Markdown (and other) files - fiatjaf/coisas

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22AD

    Hi, Piotr here I was collecting nice open-source companies for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration and learn from their code. Last week, I though it would be fun to learn this Astro thing everyone's talking about. So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea. After 2 days of building, OpenAlternative was born. It's a community driven list of open source alternatives to proprietary software and applications. Enjoy and thank you for your support!

    2024 · openalternative.co · its alternatives →

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    Visualize your YouTube community as a living cosmos

    2024 · mcomps.africa · its alternatives →

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