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ripienaar/free-for-dev

Resurgentrank #99

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

139.3k+689 · 7d 14.7k 415est. NOASSERTIONHTMLpushed 6m ago
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Composite

72

conf 65%

Momentum

62

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

77

conf 67%

Community

66

conf 60%

Security & maint.

84

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

76

conf 60%

Opportunity

68

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

55%

conf 71%

Executive summary

free-for-dev is currently classified as resurgent with a composite score of 72/100. Momentum (62) and vitality (77) are aligned — growth is backed by sustained maintenance. Estimated 7-day gain of 689 stars against a 139.3k-star base. Risk is assessed as low; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 55%.

90-day trajectory

+2.8k · 30d
2026-07-122026-10-09

Score breakdown

Every input, weight and normalized value — nothing hidden. Inputs marked est. are estimated until the full ingestion pipeline lands.

Momentum

Star velocityest.25%79
Star accelerationest.15%54
Fork velocityest.10%73
Contributor growthest.10%93
Issue activity growthest.10%24
PR activity growthest.10%69
External mention velocityest.10%4
Release event impactest.5%77
Trending-rank persistenceest.5%84

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 100%

Project Vitality Index

Commit consistency20%100
Release cadenceest.15%57
PR responsivenessest.15%66
Issue responsivenessest.15%76
Contributor diversityest.10%97
Maintainer continuityest.10%70
Documentation qualityest.5%88
Dependency freshnessest.5%63
Security hygieneest.5%56

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 67% · coverage 92% · missing: licenseClarity

Security & maintenance

Release recency25%100
License clarity20%30
Maintenance status25%100
Dependency stalenessest.15%84
Bus factorest.15%100

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 85% · coverage 100%

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%100
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%71
Documentation citationsest.15%67
Contributor overlapest.15%57
Registry adoptionest.10%58
Topic centralityest.10%75

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 92% · missing: packageRegistryAdoption