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Open Source AI Agent Tools

The 26 tools in our index with a clean, unrestricted OSI-style license (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0-or-later or AGPLv3) — free to fork, self-host and run forever, no source-available caveats and no proprietary layer gating the part you would actually run.

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We checked the license behind all 126 tools in our index and found 33 that call themselves open source in some form, but only 26 clear the bar of a clean, unrestricted license with no strings attached. This collection is those 26: the tools you can fork today, self-host forever, and keep running even if the vendor disappears, with nothing held back behind a separate commercial tier.

At a glance

agents
26
curated for this set
Free to start
26 of 26
a free or freemium entry tier
Public API
22 of 26
2 more only on a paid tier
Publish a price
26 of 26
an anchor price on their own page
What this collection covers

The other seven "open" tools don't make this list, and that's deliberate: n8n and Dify both hedge their openness with a license condition their own docs tell you to check (fair-code, added-conditions Apache), Mastra and OpenHands are open at the core but gate their enterprise controls behind a separate paid license, Sim is open-source at the code level (29.4k GitHub stars) but sells self-hosting itself only on its Enterprise tier, and Warp and Claude Agent SDK each open-source only one half of the product: Warp's terminal client (AGPL-3.0/MIT) while its Oz cloud-agent platform stays closed, and the Agent SDK's two wrapper packages (MIT) while the Claude Code CLI binary they spawn as a subprocess is never published as source. Junie isn't part of that "hedged open" group either. It's simply closed-source, with no public repository at all. Real, legitimate business models, just not a "no caveats" self-hosting story. See our full license census for the complete breakdown, caveats included.

This list isn't the same set as our [self-hostable collection](/collections/ai-agent-tools-you-can-self-host/), even though the two overlap heavily. 24 of these 26 tools also appear there. Cartesia and Kilo Code are the two exceptions. Cartesia's Apache-2.0 Line SDK is unconditionally open but its voice runtime only ever runs on Cartesia's own infrastructure. Kilo Code was added to this collection on 2026-08-18, the same day it was published, and the self-hostable collection has not yet been re-read to include it. That collection also counts 13 tools that don't clear this one's bar: Mastra, Claude Agent SDK, n8n and Dify carry a license condition on an otherwise-open core, and Augment Code, Factory, CodeRabbit, Bland AI, Deepgram Voice Agent API, Windsurf, Warp, OpenHands and Junie are closed-source products that still sell a real self-hosted or on-prem path. If what you actually need is "can I run this myself," check that collection instead.

How these 26 agents were picked

A tool earns a place here only if its entire self-hostable codebase carries a clean, unrestricted OSI-style license (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0-or-later, or AGPLv3) with no source-available carve-out, no fair-code condition, and no proprietary enterprise layer gating the part you'd actually run. Verified against each tool's own GitHub license file or our sourced listing research, not a vendor's marketing claim of "open source."

We distinguish an open core from the complete runnable product: a hosted control plane, closed runtime, source-available restriction, fair-code clause, or paid license for self-hosting excludes the listing even when part of its repository is public. Each refresh rechecks the license identifier, repository scope, self-hosting path and whether the licensed code is sufficient to operate the product independently of the vendor.

The 26 agents on this shelf

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