The best kratos alternatives

gin-vue-admin

flipped-aurora/gin-vue-admin

🚀Vite+Vue3+Gin拥有AI辅助的基础开发平台，企业级业务AI+开发解决方案，内置mcp辅助服务，内置skills管理，支持TS和JS混用。它集成了JWT鉴权、权限管理、动态路由、显隐可控组件、分页封装、多点登录拦截、资源权限、上传下载、代码生成器、表单生成器和可配置的导入导出等开发必备功能。

Choose gin-vue-admin 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 specifically need admin or casbin

Shares ai, go, golang, mcp with kratos.

go-micro

micro/go-micro

A Go agent harness and service framework

Choose go-micro if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need ai-agents or distributed-systems

Shares ai, go, golang, mcp with kratos.

kong

Kong/kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

Choose kong if…

• you would rather work in Lua than Go
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (44.3k)
• you specifically need ai-gateway or api-gateway

Shares ai, cloud-native, mcp, microservice with kratos.

excelize

qax-os/excelize

Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets

Choose excelize if…

• BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need agent or analytics

Shares ai, go, mcp with kratos.

serve

jina-ai/serve

☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack

Choose serve if…

• you would rather work in Python than Go
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need cncf or deep-learning

Shares cloud-native, framework, grpc, microservice with kratos.

tidb

pingcap/tidb

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

Choose tidb if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (40.7k)
• you specifically need agent or agent-context

Shares ai, cloud-native, go with kratos.

hister

asciimoo/hister

Your own search engine

Choose hister if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need browser-history or history

Shares go, golang, mcp with kratos.

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…

• you would rather work in Python than Go
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares ai, framework, mcp with kratos.

flower

flwrlabs/flower

Flower: A Friendly Federated AI Framework

Choose flower if…

• you would rather work in Python than Go
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need android or artificial-intelligence

Shares ai, framework, grpc with kratos.

LocalAI

mudler/LocalAI

LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

Choose LocalAI if…

• you want the more widely starred option (50.2k)
• you specifically need agents or api

Shares ai, mcp with kratos.

milvus

milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

Choose milvus if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (46.6k)
• you specifically need anns or diskann

Shares cloud-native, golang with kratos.

mcp-toolbox

googleapis/mcp-toolbox

MCP Toolbox for Databases is an open source MCP server for databases.

Choose mcp-toolbox 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 specifically need agent or agents

Shares ai, mcp with kratos.