Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to PyOpenGL

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Game Development Game Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to PyOpenGL are Vulkan, GLFW, and raylib. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Vulkan Landing Page
1

Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine
GLFW Landing Page
2

GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
raylib Landing Page
3

raylib

Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
SFML Landing Page
4

SFML

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
5

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
6

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
Panda3D Landing Page
7

Panda3D

Panda3D is a video game development engine and rendering software. It is developed and maintained by the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
pyglet Landing Page
8

pyglet

Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 7 social mentions
Crystal Space Landing Page
9

Crystal Space

Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine
Babylon.js Landing Page
10

Babylon.js

A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
MonoGame Landing Page
11

MonoGame

MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions