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OpenContracts vs Wraft

OpenContracts and Wraft are both contract management software. OpenContracts is open source under MIT, with 1.5k GitHub stars. Wraft is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 167 GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick OpenContracts when
You need to review and extract data from large sets of legal or business documents with your own models.
Pick Wraft when
A company producing many contracts or proposals wants templated authoring and approvals on its own server.

Side by side

What it does

A document analytics platform that ingests contracts and other PDFs, lets people annotate them and runs LLM extraction and agents over the collection.

A document lifecycle platform for authoring business documents from templates, routing them for approval, generating PDFs with LaTeX or Typst and collecting signatures.

Watch out

A heavy stack to deploy, and it comes from a small team.

Still at version 0.6 with a small team; Elixir hosting skills help.

Ready for

Usable

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

Python, Django, TypeScript, React and PostgreSQL

Elixir, Rust, PostgreSQL, Typst and LaTeX

Source code

Open source, MIT (permissive)

Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.

How widely known

1.5k GitHub stars

167 GitHub stars

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.1.1.

Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.6.7.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.