Open-source project monetization tools — AI Recommendation History

What AI assistants recommended for open-source project monetization tools, date by date. Every ranking we publish is frozen the day it publishes, so this is a record of what was said — not a re-computation of what today's data would say about the past.

Record: 1 dated snapshots · Aug 14, 2026Aug 14, 2026

History begins Aug 14, 2026

One date is on the record so far. A change log needs two — the first comparison publishes with the next snapshot.

The ranking, date by date

Top 10 on each archived date, exactly as published. Cite a date and it stays true: snapshots are append-only, and a correction appends a new revision rather than overwriting the original.

Aug 14, 202670 sampled answers · window 2026-07-172026-08-14 · rules v4
  • #1Open Collective74.3%
  • #2Liberapay47.1%
  • #3Ko-fi47.1%
  • #4Patreon47.1%
  • #5Buy Me a Coffee42.9%
  • #6Tidelift32.9%
  • #7Linux21.4%
  • #8IssueHunt20%
  • #9Linux Foundation18.6%
  • #10GitLab14.3%

Read any date directly

Every archived date is machine-readable at /api/index/open-source-monetization-tools/as-of/<YYYY-MM-DD>, which returns the ranking as it stood, with the extraction version and revision it was published under. Dates before the record begins return no_record rather than a recomputation — we do not reconstruct history on demand and present it as what we said. See what the engines actually said.

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