Open Source Alternatives
Open source alternatives to AutoGen
Open source alternatives to AutoGen, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.
36 open-source alternatives in the index, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.
AutoGPT
Community
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen, Babyagi
Best for: Developers exploring autonomous agent architectures and prototyping experimental workflows
Auto-GPT
Various
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Babyagi +1 more
Best for: Developers experimenting with autonomous agent architectures and building proof-of-concepts for complex multi-step AI workflows
LobeHub
Community
🤯 LobeHub is your Chief Agent Operator, organizing your agents into 7×24 operations by hiring, scheduling, and reporting on your entire AI team.
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen, Crewai
Best for: Teams that want an open-source control plane for coordinating AI agents.
OpenHands
Various
🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Metagpt, Open Interpreter +2 more
Best for: Teams building internal development automation tools or exploring autonomous coding agents
MetaGPT
Various
🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming
Alternative to Autogen, Crewai, Chatdev +1 more
Best for: Teams building software generation pipelines who need structured multi-stage AI workflows and comprehensive artifact output.
Crewai
Community
Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Chatdev
Best for: Developers who need to coordinate multiple AI agents to tackle complex, multi-step tasks
ChatDev
Community
ChatDev 2.0: Dev All through LLM-powered Multi-Agent Collaboration
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen, Crewai
Best for: Developers exploring multi-agent AI collaboration for rapid software prototyping
AgentScope
Community
Build and run agents you can see, understand and trust.
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen, Crewai
Best for: Teams building multi-agent systems who prioritize understanding and debugging agent interactions over rapid deployment.
babyagi
Various
An AI-powered task management system.
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Metagpt, Autogen
Best for: Developers experimenting with autonomous task agents and LLM-driven workflows
FinRobot
Community
FinRobot: An Open-Source AI Agent Platform for Financial Analysis using LLMs 🚀 🚀 🚀
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen
Best for: Financial analysts and data scientists who need to prototype LLM-based agents for financial data tasks.
TaskWeaver
Community
The first "code-first" agent framework for seamlessly planning and executing data analytics tasks.
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Agno +2 more
Best for: Developers building custom data analytics agents with Python
Maestro
Community
A framework for Claude Opus to intelligently orchestrate subagents.
Alternative to Metagpt, Crewai, Autogen +1 more
Best for: Developers building multi-agent systems that need structured orchestration with Claude Opus
Langroid
Community
Harness LLMs with Multi-Agent Programming
Alternative to Autogen, Crewai, Metagpt +1 more
Best for: Developers building multi-agent LLM systems with Python
OpenAgents
Various
OpenAgents - AI Agent Networks for Open Collaboration
Alternative to Metagpt, Autogen, Crewai
Best for: Developers who need to build multi-agent collaborative systems for automation or research
LLM Agents
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Build agents which are controlled by LLMs
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Agno
Best for: Python developers who want a minimal library to prototype LLM-driven agent workflows.
AgentForge
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Extensible AGI Framework
Alternative to Crewai, Autogpt, Metagpt +1 more
Best for: Python developers looking to experiment with or build custom autonomous agent systems
Llm Multiagent Debate
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ICML 2024: Improving Factuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multiagent Debate
Alternative to Crewai, Chatdev, Autogen
Best for: Researchers and developers exploring debate-based self-correction for LLMs
SwarmClaw
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Open-source self-hosted AI agent runtime and multi-agent framework for autonomous agent swarms. Agent memory, MCP tools, schedules, delegation, and 23+ LLM providers (Claude, GPT,
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen, Metagpt
Best for: Developers who need a self-hosted, multi-agent framework with broad LLM support and want to avoid vendor lock-in.
agents
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AI Agents Next Level Market Intelligence, Marketing and Sales Automation CONTENT GENERATION Manually creating Marketing materials requires significant time and effort, slowing do
Alternative to Crewai, Opendevin, Metagpt +1 more
Best for: Marketing teams needing automated content generation and competitive monitoring
beam
Community
Automate processes with AI Agents ✓Build & deploy agents in minutes ✓Seamlessly integrate into your workflows ➤ Start automating today
Alternative to Crewai, Agentforge, Autogen
Best for: Developers who want to build custom autonomous agents quickly using an open-source framework
chatarena
Community
GitHub
Alternative to Crewai, Chatdev, Llm Multiagent Debate +2 more
Best for: Researchers and developers prototyping multi-agent LLM interactions
diagram
Community
diagram — indexed from awesome-ai-agents
Alternative to Crewai, Opendevin, Autogen
Best for: Developers prototyping autonomous agent workflows with graph-based logic
fastagency
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FastAgency - FastAgency
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen, Metagpt
Best for: Developers who want a minimal, fast agent framework for production with community-level support.
gptswarm
Community
GitHub
Alternative to Crewai, Chatdev, Metagpt +1 more
Best for: Developers and researchers building custom multi-agent systems
manaflow
Community
Open source applied AI lab building next-gen devtools
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen
Best for: Developers exploring open source autonomous agent tooling
relevanceai
Community
Deliver maximum ROI through optimized specialist agents. Build agents for sales, customer success, marketing and HR, and run millions of daily tasks on one platform.
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen
Best for: Teams needing turnkey autonomous agents for core business processes
vanna
Community
Build AI agents that ship to production. User-scoped execution, rich UI components, and quota management built-in.
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen, Metagpt
Best for: Developers who need to quickly build and deploy AI agents with user isolation and usage controls
CrewAI
CrewAI
Role-based multi-agent framework. Define crews of agents with roles, goals, and tasks, run them as a team.
Alternative to Autogpt, Metagpt, Autogen
Best for: Teams who think in roles, not graphs
LangGraph
LangChain
Graph-based orchestration for long-running, multi-step agents. The control plane LangChain always needed.
Alternative to Autogen, Crewai
Best for: Engineering teams building production agent systems, not weekend prototypes
Arena
Various
Run autonomous AI agents that browse, research, code, and complete real-world tasks. Compare agent workflows and frontier models with Arena.
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Autogen, Metagpt +2 more
Best for: Developers and researchers who need to compare AI models or automate multi-step online tasks
Jasper
Various
Orchestrate intelligent agents to run end-to-end marketing workflows delivering speed, control, and measurable impact.
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Metagpt, Autogen
Best for: Marketing teams seeking to automate and scale their content and campaign workflows.
LangChain
Various
LangChain provides the engineering platform and open source frameworks developers use to build, test, and deploy reliable AI agents.
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Crewai
Best for: Developers building multi-step LLM applications or agentic systems
Luma Dream Machine
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Luma Agents are the force multiplier for your team. They plan, generate, iterate, and refine with full context across every stage of creative work.
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Metagpt, Autogen
Best for: Creative teams seeking an AI-driven productivity boost across the entire project lifecycle
Nekton AI
Various
Nekton - Automate your day-to-day tasks with AI
Alternative to Auto Gpt, Open Interpreter, Autogen
Best for: Professionals seeking to streamline repetitive administrative tasks without coding
Openwork
Various
Pilots + Claws = Crews. Deploy AI agents, run missions, earn $OPENWORK on Base. Human-guided, AI-powered.
Alternative to Crewai, Autogen, Metagpt +1 more
Best for: Users interested in combining AI agent deployment with blockchain-based incentives
Vanna.ai
Various
Build AI agents that ship to production. User-scoped execution, rich UI components, and quota management built-in.
Alternative to Autogen, Metagpt, Crewai
Best for: Developers and teams building production-grade AI agents that need multi-tenant isolation and embedded UI components