OpenSSF Alpha-Omega

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OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

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Free tier	Quoted: 'With an annual budget of over $7M, Alpha-Omega works in partnership with maintainers, security researchers, and the global open source community', backed by Anthropic, AWS, Citi, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and OpenAI. Engagements are listed per organisation: Eclipse Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Homebrew, Node.js, OpenSSL, OpenRefactory, Prossimo, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation. unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated Every published engagement is a named foundation or project entity that can hold a contract and pay staff; no individual application route is published at all. source Every published engagement is a named foundation or project entity that can hold a contract and pay staff; no individual application route is published at all.
Binding	write-gated Every published engagement is a named foundation or project entity that can hold a contract and pay staff; no individual application route is published at all.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This is the budget that pays for the security work a solo contributor can instead be paid for patch by patch through the Google Patch Rewards tiers, so the two records describe the same work at two different contracting scales.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The largest number, USD 7M a year, sits behind the tightest gate: an organisation of record. The route that actually exists for one person is the per-patch programme that Alpha-Omega's predecessor pointed to, recorded separately. I did not find an Alpha-Omega page accepting unsolicited individual proposals; the site's only entry point is a leadership and membership contact.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	alpha-omega.dev/	quoted the USD 7M annual budget and the funder list
2026-10-22	raw.githubusercontent.com/ossf/alpha-omega/main/README.md	quoted 'funding security staff at organizations like the Rust Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation' and the nine named engagements, all organisations rather than individuals
2026-10-22	openssf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/OpenSSF-Alpha-Omega-A	reported 'an average grant size of just under $350,000', with grants to the Node.js, Rust Foundation, jQuery, Eclipse Foundation and Python Software Foundation entities [date precision: year, 2022]

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "cash-grant",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated