The 10 Best Open Source Product Management Software In 2023

Akeneo bills itself as the #1 enterprise open source PIM—and for good reason. Akeneo is used by over 300 big name companies worldwide, like Staples, Fossil, Frankfurt Airport, and Tarkett.

Akeneo’s robust product data intelligence solutions empowers product teams to quickly and efficiently deliver relevant product content to the channels where it’s needed most by customers. They also offer plenty of free learning resources, like their “PXM for Dummies” e-book.

Akeneo PIM has a free community edition available. Enterprise level subscription pricing can be requested using their contact form and will vary depending on the number of channels needed.

X2CRM is an open source product development tool with enterprise-grade CRM, marketing automations, and a customizable sales management suite.

Marketing teams will enjoy the workflow automations that touch on customer contact across email, website, phone conversation, events, and chat. Additionally, the dashboards are clean, flexible, and easily digestible, which will empower marketing presentations to C-Suites.

X2CRM costs from $35/user/month.

AtroDAM is a free, open source digital asset management system for product managers, retailers, and brands. Product profiles are automatically connected to all relevant digital assets (photos, documents, vidoes, etc.) according to internal links you define yourself.

Their detail-oriented DAM system lets you assign favorite formats and sizers, perform mass uploads of assets with automatic duplicate checks, and easily export and import metadata using Excel.

AtroDAM is free to use and the team offers a free demo upon request.

StrikeTru’s smallPIM is a fully hosted, customizable, and agile open source product management software powered by Akeneo PIM Community Edition.

Take advantage of free extensions like their product change reports, cloud connector for digital assets, image thumbnail previews, SKU title generator, and workflow solutions.

They have no limit on user and publishing channel counts, which is great for growing product teams that value scalability.

StrikeTru’s smallPIM costs from $800/month on a 3-year contract and comes with a 14-day free trial.

Apache OFBiz is actually a suite of business applications that can be mixed and matched to address the needs of any product team. This suite of apps is a Java based web framework with a widget based UI for faster prototype developments.

Apache OFBiz comes with a range of core modules out-of-the-box, including one specifically for manufacturing and material requirements planning (MRP) as well as another for warehousing and inventory.

Apache OFBiz is free to use.

ownCloud is an open source product and project management software with features like simple file sharing, detailed version control, file lifecycle management, and document sharing with links shielded by passwords and expiration dates.

This tool particularly fosters collaboration by letting teams simultaneously work on documents and presentations, including annotation and feedback.

ownCloud has both desktop and mobile apps to connect anywhere.

ownCloud costs from $6/user/month and comes with a 30-day free trial.

They also have a freemium subscription available for a single user.

The MATTR platform champions a verifiable data ecosystem and can be used to extend, augment, and/or drive your application product.

The MATTR CoLab Incubator provides a creative, highly collaborative workspace between product managers and partners with which to conduct design experiments and draft proofs-on-concept. This provides in-app support to translate high-level design concepts into testable artefacts.

MATTR Enterprise has a freemium version of the product available. Their sales team offers customized pricing upon request for additional need

Elastic offers a whole suite of products from website and app search, APM data and metrics, and security information and event management (SIEM).

They excel in building modern search experiences in order to add pretuned search to your website, app, or workplace. Product managers will appreciate Elastic APM, which lets users monitor software services and applications in real-time to better position teams to fix any performance issues.

Elastic costs from $16/month and offers a 14-day free trial.

OpenPIM is a product information management system designed specifically for small to midsize businesses; they are free to use, easy to learn, and make it possible to automate routine processes that SMB owners don’t have time for.

OpenPIM is designed to store and optimize your product data and then distribute it across all channels: online stores, websites, and marketing channels (Amazon, eBay, PriceRunner), as well as printed catalogs, data sheets, and brochures.

OpenPIM is free to use and offers a free demo.

Open vSwitch is used in multiple products and boasts the ability to run in many large, complex production environments. Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch that empowers network automations via programmatic extension.

They support all standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag).

Their robust QoD control supports both traffic shaping and OVS support policing. Open vSwitch is free to use.