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OpenManus

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OpenManus is an open-source framework for building general-purpose AI agents, developed by core contributors from the MetaGPT community. It provides a modular architecture with planning agents, reactive agents, and tool-calling agents that can execute code, browse the web, search for information, and handle files. Built as the open alternative to Manus AI, it gained over 55,000 GitHub stars and supports multi-agent collaboration with real-time execution feedback.

Free and 100% open source under the MIT license. OpenManus charges no licensing or platform subscription fees; users only pay for their third-party LLM inference tokens or run it completely free with local models.
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Agent Zero

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Agent Zero is an open-source general-purpose AI agent framework with 16,700+ GitHub stars that uses the computer itself as a tool. Unlike structured orchestration frameworks, it provides full transparency where every thought, action, and tool call is visible and editable in real time, supporting 100+ extensible skills.

Free and 100% open source under the MIT license. Agent Zero has no software licensing costs; users bring their own LLM API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) or run 100% free locally via Ollama.
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OpenFang

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OpenFang is an open-source agent operating system built in Rust that provides a secure multi-agent runtime with WASM sandboxing, auditability layers, and multi-channel communication. It goes beyond typical orchestration SDKs by treating agent security and operational isolation as first-class concerns, making it suitable for teams deploying agents in environments where trust boundaries and audit trails matter.

100% free and open source Agent Operating System written in Rust ($0 software cost). Self-hostable on any infrastructure with BYO API keys for model providers.

Open-source kagent alternatives

OpenManus, Agent Zero, OpenFang — see all open-source developer tools.

More DevOps & Deployment tools

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Grok BotGrok Bot is SpaceXAI's beta workspace for persistent AI teammates that use apps, websites, files, terminals, plugins, and MCP on a user-scoped cloud computer. Bots can learn routines, coordinate in parallel, and, when enabled by team policy, launch Cursor Cloud Agents that work on code in isolated environments and return pull requests and verification artifacts.CiliumCilium is a CNCF Graduated, Apache-2.0 project for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability using eBPF. It can replace kube-proxy, enforce identity-aware L3-L7 network policies, and add Hubble flow observability plus Tetragon runtime-security signals. Current source checks support GKE Dataplane V2 using Cilium/eBPF and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium for AKS.OrbStackOrbStack is a macOS application that replaces Docker Desktop with lightweight container and Linux VM management. Its docs emphasize fast starts, lower CPU and memory overhead, and native macOS integration with menu bar controls, file sharing, and network access to containers by name, with exact gains depending on workload. Supports Docker, Kubernetes, and full Linux VMs.RayRay is an open-source distributed computing framework built for scaling AI and Python applications from a laptop to thousands of GPUs. It provides libraries for distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, model serving, reinforcement learning, and data processing under a single unified API. Ray's public site highlights OpenAI and other enterprise users. Maintained by Anyscale with Apache-2.0 open-source licensing.ActAct is an open-source tool that runs GitHub Actions workflows locally using Docker containers that match GitHub's execution environment. It provides instant feedback on workflow changes without pushing to a repository, supports matrix builds, secret management, and artifact handling. Act can also replace Makefiles by using workflow files as task definitions, making it useful for both CI/CD development and local task automation across development teams.ClerkClerk is a complete authentication and user management platform for React, Next.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. It provides pre-built UI for sign-in, sign-up, user profiles, organizations, MFA, passkeys, JWT sessions, webhooks, and billing. The Hobby plan supports up to 50,000 monthly retained users per app, with Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers for growing teams.DockerIndustry-standard container platform for building, shipping, and running applications in isolated, reproducible environments. Package apps with all dependencies into portable containers using Dockerfiles and images. Docker Compose orchestrates multi-container applications. Docker Hub hosts millions of pre-built images. Docker Desktop provides GUI management on Mac/Windows. Essential for local development, CI/CD, and production deployments. The foundation of modern containerized infrastructure.LatitudeLatitude is an agent observability platform for teams that need to inspect LLM traces, conversations, issues, and evaluation feedback in one workflow. Its public repo and docs position it as a Sentry-style monitor for AI agents, with semantic search, issue detection, annotations, MCP-assisted fixes, and cloud or self-hosted deployment paths for production debugging.ModalModal is a serverless compute platform that lets developers run AI workloads on GPUs with a Python-first SDK. Functions deploy with decorators, auto-scale from zero to thousands of containers, and bill per second. It supports LLM inference, fine-tuning, batch jobs, and sandboxes, with current GPU options including B200, H200, H100, A100, L40S, A10, L4, and T4. Modal’s 2026 Series C valued the company at $4.65B.

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FAQ

Which kagent alternative is listed first?

OpenManus is first in the editor-selected list of 3 kagent alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source kagent alternatives?

Yes — OpenManus, Agent Zero, OpenFang are open source.