Today we are launching the OSSCAR Index: the Open Source Supabase Commit Analytical Ranking. A quarterly ranking of the fastest-growing open source organizations, measured with a transparent, reproducible methodology. The site, the data, and the scoring code are all open source. The first edition covers Q1 2026 and is live now.
Open source has a ranking problem.
Most "top open source" lists rank by raw totals: stars, downloads, contributors. Those are real signals, and they accumulate for good reasons. They also tell you who was big yesterday, not who is growing today. The list of fastest-growing open source projects looks nothing like the list of largest ones, and right now there is no good way to find it.
We've been working with >commit on creating the definitive ranking of open-source projects.
A few observations from this quarter's data:
