Oxen

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the CLI, the Rust core and the Oxen Server, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it - Oxen Hub is a separately sold hosted service rather than a piece withheld from the published code.

• https://api.github.com/repos/Oxen-AI/Oxen recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for Oxen-AI/Oxen.

• https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07

  LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text.

• https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  README describes a git-like data version control system with a self-hostable Oxen Server, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside the Apache-2.0 code, only the separately sold Oxen Hub.

The oxenai PyPI package builds Oxen itself, not a client to a server, and it is the only declared artifact with a countable distribution channel, so its downloads are what this reading uses. That count leaves out installs through Homebrew, cargo and a shell script, none of which publish figures, so it undercounts how many people actually run Oxen.

• https://api.github.com/repos/Oxen-AI/Oxen recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 1,183 - for Oxen-AI/Oxen.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/oxenai/recent recorded 2026-09-02

  last_month downloads = 4,302 for oxenai.

Oxen is a versioned data layer for large files, not a distributed or cluster-capable system: content-addressed, git-like versioning (init, add, commit, branch, merge) over its own object store, with a self-hostable server for remotes. Oxen adds native indexing and queries over tabular files such as CSV, Parquet and JSONL, while lakeFS provides versioning over external object stores without its own query layer. They score the same because neither is a distributed or cluster-capable complete retrieval system.

• https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-25

  README documents a git-like data version control system for large datasets, with its own object store and a self-hostable oxen-server, and lists indexing of the files it versions and native tabular handling that can index and query csv, parquet and jsonl files. It does not document vector or full-text search.