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OpenFn

Open Function Group (OpenFn)

Workflow automation and data-integration platform used by governments and NGOs to orchestrate service workflows across legacy systems, web APIs, databases and model-backed tools. Its Lightning platform is built in Elixir and Phoenix and ships with an adaptor library as the connector layer. It is a verified Digital Public Good, maintained by a public benefit corporation since 2014.

Verified 2026-08-13 via the OpenFn/lightning repository, the OpenFn about page and the project documentation.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0(OSI copyleft)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Fully open source DPG with copyleft licensing and no feature-gated core.

  • https://github.com/OpenFn/lightning recorded 2026-08-13

    GitHub reports "LGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0 licenses found"; full Elixir/Phoenix platform source published, 292 stars and 83 forks; no paid tier or enterprise directory

  • https://www.openfn.org/about recorded 2026-08-13

    OpenFn presented as a digital public good for workflow automation, with the platform, adaptors and tooling developed in the open

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

OpenFn's own about page states 55+ countries benefiting, about 5 million workflow runs each year and roughly 50 million records handled each year. That works out at roughly 417k workflow runs a month, an institutional deployment count that supports the level on its own. The 286 GitHub stars are not what the level rests on - an institutional deployment count is not a star reading.

Capability

4 high confidence
4.0

Broad integration platform spanning authoring, many connectors, and operational monitoring.

  • https://docs.openfn.org/documentation recorded 2026-08-13

    open-source adaptor library as the connector layer, workflow orchestration across business processes and information systems, separate repos for adaptors, CLI and runtimes; no benchmark figure

Verified 2026-08-12