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The best Brigade alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Brigade, 8 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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Brigade

A self-hosted personal AI crew of agents that share memory and talk through chat apps.

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    CrewAI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 60.4k

    Python framework for building teams of role-playing AI agents that work together on tasks.

    Best for: Python developers prototyping multi-agent workflows; Teams that want role-based agents collaborating on a task

    Full review Brigade vs CrewAI
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    LangGraph

    Open source · MIT · ★ 44.3k

    A Python framework for building long-running agents that keep state and can resume after failures.

    Best for: Python developers building multi-step AI agents that must survive failures or long waits; Teams that want fine-grained control over agent state and execution flow

    Full review Brigade vs LangGraph
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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

    Full review Brigade vs OpenHands
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    Hermes Agent

    Open source · MIT · ★ 260k

    A self-improving AI agent that runs in your terminal and chat apps and learns from past work.

    Best for: Developers who want a personal agent they can host on their own server or machine; People who want to reach one assistant from several chat platforms

    Full review Brigade vs Hermes Agent
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    SuperAGI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 17.7k

    Open-source Python framework for building and running autonomous AI agents.

    Best for: Python developers experimenting with autonomous AI agents; Teams exploring agent frameworks built around large language models

    Full review Brigade vs SuperAGI
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    Edict

    Open source · MIT · ★ 17k

    Multi-agent AI system modeled on China's Tang-era governance, with a live task dashboard, requires OpenClaw.

    Best for: Developers already running OpenClaw who want a multi-agent workflow with visible task history; People who want a review step before agent output is executed, as the README describes

    Full review
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    Humanizer

    Open source · MIT · ★ 63.8k

    Rewrites AI-generated text to read more like a person wrote it, keeping the meaning.

    Best for: Writers who draft with an AI and want the final text to sound more natural; Developers using Claude Code or Codex who want a reusable writing-cleanup step

    Full review
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    Kilo Code

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.8k

    Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, or the command line.

    Best for: Developers who want an AI coding agent inside VS Code or JetBrains; People who want to choose among many AI models for different tasks

    Full review

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 Brigade. We don't take payment for placement.