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DDS-based middleware, navigation and manipulation stacks under annual LTS releases.

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Current version

2

Entry cost

Free and open source robotics middleware.

Changes / 30d

8

The short answers · verified September 16, 2026

What is the latest version of ROS 2?
The current shipped version of ROS 2 is 2, as of September 16, 2026.
How much does ROS 2 cost?
ROS 2 has no published flat entry price. Free and open source robotics middleware.
What AI model does ROS 2 use?
ROS 2 runs primarily on DDS (Fast/Cyclone).

Source: Open Robotics — docs.ros.org · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • DDS middleware
  • Nav2
  • MoveIt 2
  • 5-year LTS
  • robotics middleware
  • robot operating system
  • open source
  • open-source
  • developer tools
  • open source framework
  • Robot Operating System
  • Middleware
  • Open Source
  • Robotics Software Framework
  • Robotics software platform
  • Open source development
  • middleware
  • robotics-framework
  • open-source framework
  • Robotics middleware
  • Open source
  • Robotics Middleware
  • Open Source Development Platform
  • robotics framework
  • robotics-middleware

Pricing

  • Open Source / Free

    Free

Entry price over time

12 of 36 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture

10/5/2023 · $09/16/2026 · $0

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • DDS (Fast/Cyclone)

    eProsima / Eclipse

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • robotics
  • middleware

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • DDS (Fast/Cyclone)eProsima / Eclipse · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: robotics-middleware

    24 tracked25 tracked · +robotics-middleware

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: robotics framework

    23 tracked24 tracked · +robotics framework

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robotics Middleware, Open Source Development Platform

    21 tracked23 tracked · +Robotics Middleware, Open Source Development Platform

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robotics middleware, Open source

    19 tracked21 tracked · +Robotics middleware, Open source

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open-source framework

    18 tracked19 tracked · +open-source framework

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: middleware, robotics-framework

    16 tracked18 tracked · +middleware, robotics-framework

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robotics software platform, Open source development

    14 tracked16 tracked · +Robotics software platform, Open source development

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robotics Software Framework

    13 tracked14 tracked · +Robotics Software Framework

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robot Operating System, Middleware, Open Source

    10 tracked13 tracked · +Robot Operating System, Middleware, Open Source

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open source framework

    9 tracked10 tracked · +open source framework

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open-source, developer tools

    7 tracked9 tracked · +open-source, developer tools

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    2ROS 2

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to 2

    ROS 22

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: open source

    6 tracked7 tracked · +open source

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to ROS 2

    Jazzy JaliscoROS 2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: robotics middleware, robot operating system

    42

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: ROS 2 Middleware, Client libraries, Robot simulation

    4 tracked9 tracked · +ROS 2 Middleware, Client libraries, Robot simulation, tf2 transform library, ROS bag recording

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to Lyrical Luth

    Kilted KaijuLyrical Luth

    source
  • version

    Jazzy Jalisco LTS adopted as the default distribution

    Iron IrwiniJazzy Jalisco

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to Kilted Kaiju

    Jazzy JaliscoKilted Kaiju

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robot Operating System, Middleware, DDS implementations

    6 tracked10 tracked · +Robot Operating System, Middleware, DDS implementations, C++ and Python client libraries

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to Jazzy Jalisco

    Rolling RidleyJazzy Jalisco

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: ROS 2 Middleware (RMW), DDS implementations support, rviz2 visualization

    5 tracked11 tracked · +ROS 2 Middleware (RMW), DDS implementations support, rviz2 visualization, rosbag2 recording and playback, ros2_tracing analysis, Security keystores & access control

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to Rolling Ridley

    Kilted KaijuRolling Ridley

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Robotics middleware, DDS implementations, Multiple OS support

    10 tracked15 tracked · +Robotics middleware, DDS implementations, Multiple OS support, Inter-process communication, Real-time programming support

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: DDS implementation, C++ client library, Python client library

    8 tracked18 tracked · +DDS implementation, C++ client library, Python client library, ROS 2 CLI tools, rosbag2 recording, tf2 transform system, URDF robot models, RViz visualization, Security keystores, Lifecycle nodes

    source
  • version

    ROS 2 moved to Kilted Kaiju

    Jazzy JaliscoKilted Kaiju

    source
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ROS 2 compared

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APA
Tomorrow. (2026). ROS 2 — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ros2
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-ros2,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {ROS 2 — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ros2}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}