AutoGPT
by Significant Gravitas
At a glance
Open-source framework for building and running autonomous AI agents that chain tasks toward a goal.
ai-agent autonomous open-source
- Licence
- MIT (classic) / Polyform Shield (platform)
- Category
- Agents & Automation
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2023-03
Overview
AutoGPT is an open-source framework for building and running autonomous AI agents that chain tasks toward a goal. One of the earliest viral agent projects, it has evolved into a platform with a low-code builder for creating and deploying agents. The core is free and open source.
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Key features
- Autonomous goal-driven task chaining
- Low-code builder for agent workflows
- Tool and web integrations
- Self-hostable open-source core
Use cases
- Automating multi-step research and web tasks
- Experimenting with autonomous agent design
- Building custom agents without heavy coding
Pricing
Self-hosting the core is free under the repository's license terms; the hosted cloud platform is a paid subscription with usage credits and no free tier.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-10
- Pricing
- agpt.co ↗
- Documentation
- agpt.co ↗
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/autogpt/
Selection profile
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Selection profile11 fields5 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Automation agents
Derived from the record: category "agents".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Self-run service
Open-source project without a tag describing its delivery form; run it yourself.
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- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
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- Global
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Suggest a correction - Public API
- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Licence
- MIT (classic) / Polyform Shield (platform)
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Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Permitted
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Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
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- Open source Free Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
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- Runs on
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- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
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- Public API
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- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
Is AutoGPT open source?
Yes. AutoGPT is an open-source project for building and running autonomous AI agents.
What is AutoGPT known for?
AutoGPT was one of the first widely known experiments in autonomous, goal-driven AI agents.
Is AutoGPT free?
The open-source core is free to self-host; running it incurs the cost of the underlying model API.
What does the AutoGPT record not confirm?
The vendor page fetched did not state licence or region details, so commercial-use rights and regional or language availability are not established for AutoGPT.
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