The best OpenManus alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to OpenManus, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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OpenManusOpen-source Python framework for building general-purpose AI agents that run tasks from a prompt.
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OpenHands
Open source · MIT · ★ 92.5k
A self-hosted control panel that runs AI coding agents on your machine, in Docker, or in the cloud.
Best for: Developers who want coding agents running on a server while their laptop is off; Teams that want a shared agent server for tasks like code review or dependency updates
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MetaGPT
Open source · MIT · ★ 71.1k
A framework where several LLM agents play software-company roles to build software from one sentence.
Best for: Developers experimenting with multi-agent LLM workflows; Researchers interested in agent collaboration using standard operating procedures
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SWE-agent
Open source · MIT · ★ 20.7k
An AI agent that tries to fix GitHub issues automatically, using the language model you choose.
Best for: Researchers studying autonomous coding agents or running SWE-bench experiments; Developers who want to experiment with an LLM attempting issue fixes in their own repositories
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to OpenManus. We don't take payment for placement.