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The best CAD & 3D tools. Ranked by real activity.

Every CAD & 3D tool on Enlisted, ordered by GitHub stars, growth and recent releases. Open-source and SaaS options side by side.

The top-ranked open-source CAD & 3D tool on Enlisted is FreeCAD (34k GitHub stars), followed by Blender and OrcaSlicer. Among SaaS products, other tools on Enlisted are most often compared with Autodesk Fusion, AutoCAD and Onshape.

Enlisted lists 82 CAD & 3D tools: 11 open source and 71 SaaS. 10 of the open-source ones can be self-hosted on your own server or computer. The most common open-source licences here are AGPL-3.0 (2 tools), GPL-3.0 (1) and LGPL-2.1 (1). The open-source ones are most often listed as alternatives to SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor and Simplify3D.

Last updated October 3, 2026 · ranked by GitHub stars, growth and recent commits

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CAD & 3D tools: questions

What is the best open-source CAD & 3D tool?
FreeCAD is the top-ranked open-source CAD & 3D tool on Enlisted, with 34k GitHub stars. It is followed by Blender, OrcaSlicer and OpenSCAD.
What are the best free CAD & 3D tools?
The top-ranked open-source CAD & 3D tools with a standard licence are FreeCAD (LGPL-2.1), OrcaSlicer (AGPL-3.0) and PrusaSlicer (AGPL-3.0), so their code is free to use. 23 of the 71 SaaS products here have a free plan, including Onshape, Spline and D5 Render.
Which CAD & 3D tools can be self-hosted?
10 of the 11 open-source CAD & 3D tools on Enlisted can be self-hosted on your own server or computer; the top-ranked are FreeCAD, Blender and OrcaSlicer.
How are these CAD & 3D tools ranked?
Open-source tools are ordered by a score built from GitHub stars, star growth over the last 30 days and how recently the code changed; 8 of the 11 had new commits or a release in the last 30 days. SaaS products have no public repository, so they get a fixed baseline score. GitHub data is refreshed daily, and nobody can pay to move up.