SourceForge free for open source — what you get and how to apply

Free project hosting for open source software: download distribution with unlimited bandwidth over a global mirror network, download analytics, git/Mercurial/Subversion repository hosting, issue tracking, forums, wiki documentation, and listing in the Open Source Directory (~20 million users, 2.6M downloads/day).

Eligibility: for the project; Project must be open source software; the free tier is specifically for OSS projects (business software is a separate directory).

How to apply: Create a project at https://sourceforge.net/create/ (or import from GitHub); free registration, no application review described.

last verified 2026-07-06