You already put a lot of effort into your open source projects, but your users want more. What if you could get paid for that work by building and promoting a product that is valuable to enterprises?

Our commercial subscribers are looking for the same maintenance guarantees and assurances for your project that they expect from traditional enterprise software products. Of course, you shouldn’t be expected to provide this type of work for free! Tidelift works directly with maintainers—like you—to provide those guarantees as part of our managed open source subscription.

To maximize coverage on all our subscribers’ dependencies, we analyze each of their application manifests and distribute income to lifters (the maintainers working with us) from that subscription fee. This means maintainers will get paid by the people who depend on their packages the most. Read more about how we pay lifters.