The best MetaGPT alternatives

deer-flow

bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Choose deer-flow if…

• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need agentic or agentic-framework

Shares agent, llm, multi-agent with MetaGPT.

LlamaFactory

hiyouga/LlamaFactory

Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

Choose LlamaFactory if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need ai or deepseek

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

AstrBot

AstrBotDevs/AstrBot

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

Choose AstrBot if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need ai or astrbot

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

ai-agents-from-zero

didilili/ai-agents-from-zero

🚀 2026 最系统的 AI Agent 速成指南｜智能体实战教程 · 完整学习路径 + 实战项目 + 面试题库 · 对标大模型应用开发工程师岗位 · 覆盖LangChain / LangGraph / Coze / Dify / MCP / skills / LLM / RAG / 提示词 · 企业级部署与微调 · 从0到企业级落地 + 从学习到上线项目 + 面试准备一体化

Choose ai-agents-from-zero if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

ChatTTS

2noise/ChatTTS

A generative speech model for daily dialogue.

Choose ChatTTS if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need chat or chatgpt

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

agentscope

agentscope-ai/agentscope

Build and run agents you can see, understand and trust.

Choose agentscope if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need chatbot or large-language-models

Shares agent, llm, multi-agent with MetaGPT.

E2B

e2b-dev/E2B

Open-source, secure environment with real-world tools for enterprise-grade agents.

Choose E2B if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need ai or ai-agent

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

TaskingAI

TaskingAI/TaskingAI

The open source platform for AI-native application development.

Choose TaskingAI if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai or ai-native

Shares agent, gpt, llm with MetaGPT.

TradingAgents

TauricResearch/TradingAgents

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

Choose TradingAgents if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (120.2k)
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need finance or multiagent

Shares agent, llm with MetaGPT.

headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

Choose headroom if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need ai or anthropic

Shares agent, llm with MetaGPT.

haystack

deepset-ai/haystack

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

Choose haystack if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares llm, multi-agent with MetaGPT.

omnigent

omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

Choose omnigent if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you want the more recently updated codebase
• you specifically need agent-framework or agent-governance

Shares llm, multi-agent with MetaGPT.