The best windmill alternatives

mission-control

builderz-labs/mission-control

Self-hosted control plane for AI agents: dispatch tasks, review runs, track spend, and operate OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and other runtimes.

Choose mission-control if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-observability or agent-operations

Shares ai-agents, open-source, self-hosted, typescript with windmill.

dagu

dagucloud/dagu

Self-hostable workflow orchestrator for teams whose main work isn't orchestration. Declarative YAML over your scripts, SSH commands, containers, etc; keep workflows separate from business logic. One binary, no database, runs on limited H/W resources. Alternative to Airflow / Cron / Job Scheduler.

Choose dagu if…

• you would rather work in Go than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports GNU General Public License v3.0
• 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

Shares ai-agents, airflow-alternative, self-hosted, workflow-engine with windmill.

whodb

clidey/whodb

Where data access meets operational intelligence

Choose whodb if…

• you would rather work in Go than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• 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

Shares internal-tools, postgresql, self-hosted with windmill.

pentagi

vxcontrol/pentagi

Fully autonomous AI Agents system capable of performing complex penetration testing tasks

Choose pentagi if…

• you would rather work in Go than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (34.0k)
• you specifically need ai-security-tool or anthropic

Shares ai-agents, open-source, self-hosted with windmill.

CompanyOS

kortix-ai/CompanyOS

Kortix CompanyOS – the open-source operating system for your company. Multiplayer AI agents, your company as code, sovereign on your infrastructure or ours.

Choose CompanyOS if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you specifically need ai or company-as-code

Shares ai-agents, open-source, self-hosted with windmill.

open-multi-agent

open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent

Self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records. Own it, approve it, audit it.

Choose open-multi-agent if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agent-orchestration

Shares ai-agents, self-hosted, typescript with windmill.

agent-autoloop

KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop

让你的命令行 Agent 在后台自己接活、自己跟进到底；平时不烦你，遇到拿不准的事才发卡片找你拍板。

Choose agent-autoloop if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need automation or claude-code

Shares ai-agents, self-hosted, typescript with windmill.

cloudroom

davidondrej/cloudroom

Cloud agents for any harness. Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode run in isolated sandboxes, and live sessions move between your Mac and the cloud.

Choose cloudroom if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need background-agents or claude

Shares ai-agents, rust, self-hosted with windmill.

langchain

langchain-ai/langchain

The agent engineering platform.

Choose langchain if…

• you would rather work in Python than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (149.4k)
• you specifically need agents or ai

Shares ai-agents, open-source, python, typescript with windmill.

nanobot

HKUDS/nanobot

Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps

Choose nanobot if…

• you would rather work in Python than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (50.0k)
• you specifically need agent-framework or ai-agent

Shares ai-agents, python, self-hosted with windmill.

nocobase

nocobase/nocobase

NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform for building business systems fast. Instead of generating everything from scratch, AI works on top of production-proven infrastructure and a WYSIWYG no-code interface, so you get both speed and reliability.

Choose nocobase if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you specifically need admin-dashboard or ai-agent

Shares ai-agents, internal-tools, self-hosted with windmill.

OpenMausBot

milind-soni/OpenMausBot

Open-source Grok Bot alternative with a virtual machine that bots can use

Choose OpenMausBot if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Rust
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need claude-code or codex

Shares ai-agents, self-hosted, typescript with windmill.