The openness label

The words open source get stretched. Some projects publish their code but rely on a paid service to do the real work. Others give away the app but restrict how the AI model inside it may be used. Both can honestly call themselves open, and neither is what most people expect.

So every tool in the Free Market carries the same four-line label. Code tells you whether the program's source is public and under which license. Models tells you whether the AI doing the work is freely downloadable, restricted, or a paid service. Runs tells you whether it works on your own computer or needs the cloud. Real cost tells you what you will actually pay, including usage fees.

When a license has unusual conditions, such as non-commercial limits or branding rules, we add a plain-language note on the tool's page. We are not lawyers, so for commercial projects read the license itself, which we always link.