Best Open Source Tools of February 2026

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   1. KiloClaw

   849 upvotes

   Hosted OpenClaw. No Mac mini required.

   OpenClaw is the most popular open source AI agent on the planet. Running it yourself? That's the hard part. KiloClaw is a fully managed, hosted version of OpenClaw. We handle the infrastructure, security, updates, and monitoring so you…

   #1 on February 25, 20263 makers
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   2. Modelence App Builder

   409 upvotes

   Build real apps, not prototypes

   Build production-ready apps with everything you need to go live - authentication, database and monitoring included out of the box. Powered by an open-source framework designed for the AI era.

   #2 on February 24, 20261 maker
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   3. Cline CLI 2.0

   297 upvotes

   Parallel agents & headless CI/CD in your terminal

   Trusted by 5M+ developers, the Cline CLI brings autonomous coding directly to your command line. Fully open source, redesigned from the ground up. Features parallel agents, headless mode for CI/CD, and ACP support for any editor (Zed…

   #2 on February 14, 20261 maker
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   4. Qwen3.5

   288 upvotes

   The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params

   An open-weight, native vision-language model built for long-horizon agentic tasks. Its hybrid architecture (linear attention + MoE) delivers the capabilities of a 397B giant with the inference speed of a 17B model.

   #3 on February 17, 2026qwen35.com1 maker
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   5. NVIDIA PersonaPlex

   278 upvotes

   Natural Conversational AI With Any Role and Voice

   We introduce PersonaPlex, a full-duplex conversational AI model that enables natural conversations with customizable voices and roles. PersonaPlex handles interruptions and backchannels while maintaining any chosen persona, outperforming…

   #3 on February 16, 20261 maker
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   6. Skillkit

   250 upvotes

   The package manager for AI agent skills

   The universal skill platform for AI coding agents. Auto-generate instructions with Primer, persist learnings with Memory, and distribute across Mesh networks. One CLI for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and 28 more.

   #3 on February 7, 2026tryskillkit.com1 maker
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   7. IronClaw

   229 upvotes

   Secure, open-source alternative to OpenClaw

   OpenClaw is powerful, but give it real credentials and you're exposed. Prompt injections steal API keys. Malicious skills grab passwords. IronClaw fixes this. Your credentials live in an encrypted vault inside a TEE — injected at the…

   #6 on February 26, 2026ironclaw.com1 maker
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   8. MiniMax M2.5

   194 upvotes

   The first open model to beat Sonnet made for productivity

   Introducing M2.5, an open-source frontier model designed for real-world productivity. SOTA performance at coding (SWE-Bench Verified 80.2%), search (BrowseComp 76.3%), agentic tool-calling (BFCL 76.8%) & office work. Optimized for…

   #6 on February 17, 2026
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   9. ClawMetry for OpenClaw

   191 upvotes

   Real-time observability dashboard for OpenClaw AI agents

   ClawMetry is a free, open-source observability dashboard for OpenClaw AI agents. Think Grafana, but purpose-built for AI. One command install (pip install clawmetry), zero config. Monitor token costs, sub-agent activity, cron jobs, memory…

   #5 on February 18, 2026clawmetry.com
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    10. GLM-5

    152 upvotes

    Open-weights model for long-horizon agentic engineering

    A 744B MoE model (40B active) built for complex systems & agentic tasks. #1 open-source on Vending Bench 2, narrowing the gap with Claude Opus 4.5. Features DeepSeek Sparse Attention and "slime" RL infra.

    #8 on February 13, 2026glm5.ai1 maker
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    11. claude-devtools

    143 upvotes

    See everything Claude Code hides from your terminal

    Not another Claude Code GUI wrapper. claude-devtools doesn't run or modify Claude Code — it reads the raw session logs already on your machine and reconstructs everything the CLI hides. Every file path Read, every tool called, every diff…

    #11 on February 17, 20261 maker
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    12. CRML

    130 upvotes

    CRML is a declaritive language for writing cyberrisk as code

    We have infrastructure as a code, network as a code but dont have anything as Risk As a Code. CRML is an open, declarative, engine-agnostic and Control / Attack framework–agnostic Cyber Risk Modeling Language. It provides a YAML/JSON…

    #9 on February 9, 20261 maker
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    13. Kollect Voice Agent

    123 upvotes

    AI that feels human

    Kollect turns boring forms into real-time AI conversations. Users speak naturally, AI listens and dynamically guides the survey. You can even create forms by simply describing them.

    #6 on February 19, 20261 maker
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    14. VibePad

    119 upvotes

    Control AI coding assistants with a gamepad from your couch

    VibePad is a free macOS menu bar app that maps your gamepad to keyboard shortcuts. Built for AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex where the workflow is mostly Accept, Reject, Scroll, Navigate and Dictate. X - approve, O - reject, L2…

    #11 on February 25, 20261 maker
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    15. Surfpool

    112 upvotes

    Where developers start their Solana journey

    Drop-in replacement for solana-test-validator. Simulate programs locally using Mainnet accounts, deploy with Infrastructure as Code, and more.

    #11 on February 28, 20261 maker
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    16. Mengram

    108 upvotes

    AI memory API with 3 types: facts, events, and workflows

    AI memory API with 3 types: semantic (facts), episodic (events), and procedural (learned workflows). One API call extracts all three automatically. Killer feature: your agent completes a task → Mengram saves the steps → next time it…

    #10 on February 19, 2026mengram.io1 maker, 1 with an email
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    17. Ember Mug CLI

    107 upvotes

    Control your ember mug from the terminal

    Ember's mobile app isn't great and I would prefer to see my coffee mug on the screens I am already looking at. Plus now I can put it right next to my Claude Code and it looks great. Submit issues on Github if you find any problems. Feel…

    #11 on February 4, 20261 maker
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    18. OpenBug

    103 upvotes

    Ticket in, fix out. Every solution trains the next one.

    OpenBug is an open-source CLI that turns bug tickets into fixes. Paste a ticket, and the AI agent investigates your logs, reads your code, correlates across services, and delivers a diff. Every fix adds to a shared runbook in git — so…

    #7 on February 14, 20261 maker
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    19. SERA

    102 upvotes

    Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo

    SERA is a family of open coding models (8B, 14B, 32B) trained with a new efficient method. SERA learns from "soft-verified" data, drastically reducing training costs. Easily adaptable to private codebases. Open weights, data & recipes.

    #13 on February 4, 20261 maker
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    20. Moltcraft

    100 upvotes

    Visualize your AI agents work in a pixel world

    Moltcraft is an open-source isometric pixel dashboard for Moltbot. Instead of reading terminal logs, watch your AI agents walk around a living world. Each agent becomes a pixel character. Click buildings for real data: cron jobs, token…

    #19 on February 3, 2026moltcraft.xyz1 maker
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    21. Pangolin

    95 upvotes

    Open-source identity-based VPN & remote access platform

    Pangolin is the easiest identity-based VPN alternative. Securely connect to internal applications and infrastructure by granting users and groups access to specific resources. Reduce network and access control complexity. It's…

    #21 on February 3, 2026pangolinhq.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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    22. Granary by Speakeasy

    94 upvotes

    The context hub for your agents

    If you've run multiple AI agents on a real codebase, you know the pain: agents lose context between sessions, duplicate each other's work, or produce conflicting changes. There's no built-in way for them to coordinate. Granary is an open…

    #18 on February 12, 2026speakeasy.com1 maker
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    23. Agentset

    92 upvotes

    APIs for building AI chat and search

    Open-source RAG infrastructure that survives production workloads. Upload documents, query via API, get answers with sources. Hybrid search, multimodal, complex reasoning - all included. Model-agnostic. Used by 1,500+ teams in medical AI…

    #16 on February 4, 2026agentset.ai1 maker
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    24. ClawRecipes

    90 upvotes

    Save 50+ hours setting up OpenClaw Agents with ClawRecipes

    🔥 Introducing ClawRecipes 🦞 — Recipes for OpenClaw that actually work Tired of agent teams that don’t collaborate? ClawRecipes is the first plugin for real out-of-the-box multi-agent teams One command: openclaw recipes scaffold…

    #21 on February 24, 20261 maker
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    25. Konta

    84 upvotes

    GitOps for Docker Compose on low‑resource VPS

    Store the state of your VPS containers in a repo. Konta helps you use Git as a single source of truth, automatically sync changes with server containers using docker-compose files — no cluster, no control plane. Simply push changes to…

    #20 on February 18, 20261 maker

Junior imports every day's Product Hunt leaderboard. Each launch is filed under the first topic its makers chose, so it appears in one category only. This list takes the Open Source launches dated in February 2026 and ranks them by their upvotes. It refreshes daily.

• Best Productivity Tools240
• Best Design Tools77
• Best Developer Tools55
• Best Mac Apps17
• Best Android Apps49
• Best Marketing Tools46
• Best AI Tools40
• Best SaaS Tools55
• Best iOS Apps37
• Best APIs27
• Best Chrome Extensions31
• Best Analytics Tools31
• Best Health & Fitness Apps20
• Best Social Media Tools18
• Best Sales Tools19
• Best Fintech Tools16

• All Open Source Tools732
• Every launch in February 2026
• All best-of lists

What was the top Open Source launch of February 2026?

KiloClaw ("Hosted OpenClaw. No Mac mini required."), with 849 upvotes on February 25, 2026, where it finished #1 of the day.

How many Open Source Tools launched in February 2026?

54 on Product Hunt, with 5,316 upvotes between them. This list shows the 25 most upvoted.

How is this list ranked?

By Product Hunt upvotes, as recorded on launch day. Ties go to the launch with the better daily rank. Every launch is counted once, in the category its makers listed first.

How do I reach the makers of these Open Source Tools?

Each launch links to its page on Junior, with the people behind it (25 makers across this list). Junior adds their verified work emails, LinkedIn and X profiles for subscribers.