Skip to content

The best Eliza alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to Eliza, 6 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.

You're replacing

Eliza

An open-source TypeScript framework and app stack for building autonomous AI agents.

  1. 1

    LangChain

    Open source · MIT · ★ 149k

    A Python framework for building AI agents and apps powered by language models.

    Best for: Python developers building LLM-powered applications; Teams that want to switch between model providers without rewriting code

  2. 2

    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

  3. 3

    VoltAgent

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.9k

    TypeScript framework and platform for building AI agents with memory, tools, workflows, and observability.

    Best for: TypeScript or Node.js developers building AI agents; Teams that want multi-agent setups with a supervisor routing tasks to sub-agents

  4. 4

    Material for MkDocs

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.6k

    A theme for MkDocs that turns Markdown files into a searchable documentation website.

    Best for: Open source maintainers who want a clean docs site for a project; Teams that already write documentation in Markdown

  5. 5

    OpenUI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k

    Open standard and toolkit for AI models to generate and stream live user interfaces.

    Best for: Developers adding AI-generated charts, forms, or tables to a web app; Teams building chat assistants or copilots that answer with interactive UI

  6. 6

    Quivr

    Open source · MIT · ★ 39.6k

    Open-source engine that ingests content streams and makes them searchable and monitorable, in evaluation stage

    Best for: Developers building a search or monitoring pipeline over a stream of documents; Teams who want to evaluate a self-hosted, plugin-based ingestion and search engine

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 Eliza. We don't take payment for placement.