Understanding the difference between data from Libraries.io and the Tidelift Subscription 

In the fast-paced world of software development, making informed decisions about which open source packages to use is more critical than ever. While free and open source tools like Libraries.io provide a useful starting point, such tools often fall short when it comes to delivering reliable and in-depth insights necessary for a robust approach to reducing security risks.  Organizations seeking to use open source software need deeper, more reliable data to proactively identify and eliminate risk from their software development lifecycle. 

Comparing Libraries.io and Tidelift 

Libraries.io is a free service, maintained and run by Tidelift, that collects publicly available open source package metadata scraped from the internet. With it you can search for open source packages by license, language, or explore new, trending, or popular packages. It is useful for gathering raw, package license and dependency information as well as synthesized data streams of scraped information across multiple package managers. However, this data is not meant for important enterprise level decision making. 

On the other hand Tidelift is a curated source of data and intelligence for millions of open source packages across multiple languages, backed by Tidelift and our maintainer partners, who are paid to ensure their projects follow enterprise-grade secure software development practices, now and into the future. 

Isaac Wuest, product manager at Tidelift will also dive into a live demo comparing and contrasting Tidelift and Libraries.io with use cases that you use in your daily workflows. 

In this short webinar you will learn the key differences between using Libraries.io and Tidelift, and how Tidelift can elevate your open source strategy with human-verified data.