The Tidelift Subscription

MANAGED OPEN SOURCE FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

The Tidelift Subscription is a managed open source subscription providing all the capabilities you expect—and require—from commercial software. But now, for all of the key open source software you depend on.

Your subscription includes

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Freely available open source code
Comprehensive security updates
Licensing verification and indemnification
Maintenance and code improvement
Package selection and version guidance
Roadmap input
Tooling and cloud integration

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What is managed open source?

Tidelift uses a layered approach to keep your open source dependencies trouble-free and enterprise-ready.

Tools. We provide tools to keep track of all the dependencies you use, flag issues, and enforce policies.

Management. We manage core, mission-critical packages on your behalf, including researching and resolving issues so you don't have to anymore.

Maintainers. We recruit maintainers for many important projects and pay them to proactively prevent problems and address the root causes of issues.

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Trust your open source

Maintainers validate licensing and security policy details
Maintainers keep release notes and version guidance up to date
Maintainers help us reduce scanner false positives for your team

Resolve issues quickly

We research and resolve licensing and security problems
We provide version guidance on each release stream
Maintainers are paid to resolve root problems upstream

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Resolve issues quickly

We research and resolve licensing and security problems
We provide version guidance on each release stream
Maintainers are paid to resolve root problems upstream

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Ship fast, stay in compliance

Accelerate development while making safe package choices
Configure security, maintenance, and licensing policies
Enforce those policies through continuous integration

What’s it cost?

It costs nothing to get started with a free trial of the Tidelift Subscription.

Professional application development teams get support for thousands of projects across JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, and more. Your subscription starts at $1500/month for up to 25 developers.

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Managed open source

Learn how a managed open source strategy can help ensure organizations have access to the open source projects and components they need while doing so in a sanctioned, secure, and compliant way.

What’s different about Tidelift?

The Tidelift Subscription is different from traditional commercial open source products because it's created in direct cooperation with the maintainers behind a broad range of community-led open source projects.

This creates the ideal alignment between the users of open source packages and the best experts you could hope to enlist—the actual open source contributors who maintain that software, and often created it in the first place.