Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Vulkan

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. subtitle

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Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Developer Tools Game Development Game Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Vulkan are raylib, SFML, and GLFW. 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.

raylib Landing Page
1

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
2

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
GLFW Landing Page
3

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
Godot Engine Landing Page
4

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 446 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
PyOpenGL Landing Page
6

PyOpenGL

Python bindings for OpenGL API.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine
LibGDX Landing Page
7

LibGDX

Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
8

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 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
PlayCanvas Landing Page
11

PlayCanvas

PlayCanvas is an open-source game engine built on WebGL and WebVR.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 29 social mentions
MonoGame Landing Page
12

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