Apache OpenOffice
by Apache OpenOffice · Free and open source desktop productivity suite
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Overview
Apache OpenOffice is an open source productivity suite made up of Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base. It is distributed as a free download with no licence fee, and can be extended with extra functionality, templates and clipart. The project runs under the Apache Software Foundation and is developed entirely by volunteers; 4.1.16 is the current release.
- Best for
- People and organisations wanting a no-cost desktop office suite for documents, spreadsheets and slides.
- Pricing
- Free to download with no licence fee; no paid plans are shown, and the project instead invites donations to the Apache Software Foundation.
- Runs on
- Linux
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free to download and use, with no licence fee
- Covers Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base
- Extensions, templates and clipart can be added
- Open source, under the Apache Software Foundation
Trade-offs
- Only one release between December 2023 and November 2025
- Built entirely by volunteers; Apache pays no developers, QA or support
- No paid support or commercial plan is shown on the site
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Apache OpenOffice’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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Where this comes from
The Apache OpenOffice pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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