Free for open source
Free, sponsored access to the Bytesafe Dependency Firewall for public open source projects.
Looking for Bytesafe Community Edition?
The free Community Edition of the previous firewall generation has been discontinued. For teams and companies, see Bytesafe Cloud plans or Self-hosted.
Open source projects have supply chains too. If you maintain an active, public open source project, you can apply to run the Dependency Firewall in your CI and release workflows, sponsored by Bytesafe.
What sponsorship includes
Sponsorship normally includes one Cloud firewall endpoint for the approved project. Multi-ecosystem projects can request additional endpoints. It runs for 12 months and is reviewed annually.
What we ask in return
- Publish your source under an open source license.
- Use the sponsored access only for the approved project.
- List Bytesafe as a sponsor in the README and on the project website, with a link to bytesafe.dev.
Applications are reviewed case by case on project activity, adoption, fit, and program capacity.
Contact us if you maintain an open source project
Email support@bytesafe.dev with the repository URL, package ecosystems, CI provider, and estimated build activity.
Fair use
Sponsored access has no fixed request or bandwidth quota. It covers the dependency traffic generated by the approved project's CI and release workflows, and may not be:
- Resold or transferred.
- Shared with unrelated projects.
- Used for private or internal company workloads.
- Exposed as a general-purpose public package proxy.
- Used for load or performance testing.
If use falls outside this scope or affects service capacity, we contact the project first where practical, and may agree a change, recommend a paid plan, or pause access. Access can be suspended immediately for abuse or security risk.
Got questions? Email support@bytesafe.dev.