The best Open SWE alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to Open SWE, 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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Open SWEOpen-source coding agent that takes engineering tasks and delivers pull requests, meant to be self-hosted.
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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
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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
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DeerFlow
Open source · MIT · ★ 84.9k
An open-source agent framework that coordinates sub-agents, memory, and sandboxes for long, multi-step tasks.
Best for: Developers who want to experiment with multi-agent workflows on their own infrastructure; Researchers running long, multi-step investigations that need memory and sub-agents
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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
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watermarks-remover
Open source · MIT · ★ 25.9k
Strips AI provenance watermarks from text and files you own, via an agent skill and a local Python service.
Best for: Developers who use AI coding agents and want written files scrubbed of provenance metadata; Creators who want to remove embedded C2PA or EXIF data from their own images or documents before sharing
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RD-Agent
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.2k
An AI agent framework that automates parts of data science and R&D work, such as ML competitions and quant res
Best for: Researchers who want to test automated ML engineering agents on benchmark-style tasks; Data scientists exploring agent-driven model and feature development
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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
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UFO
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.2k
Open-source Windows agent that uses an LLM to operate desktop apps, and a multi-device orchestration layer cal
Best for: Developers experimenting with LLM-driven Windows desktop automation; Researchers studying multi-agent task orchestration
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 Open SWE. We don't take payment for placement.