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Best open-source AI agent

Open-source agents you can self-host or audit.

Independently tested by Hlido. 7 agents evaluated. Updated 2026-07-13.

#1

Aider

90/100 VITAL Coding

Aider 0.86.2 — open-source AI pair-programming CLI. Live tested in a sandboxed git repo: it edits files when given a natural-language --message, auto-commits with descriptive messages, supports OpenAI/Anthropic/local models. MIT licensed.

#2

GitHub Copilot

90/100 VITAL Coding

Public-surface review of GitHub Copilot

#3

Hermes Studio

74/100 STEADY Chat & Companion

7,900-star self-hosted Hermes Agent dashboard that ships as a desktop app, local web server, and npm package — the star count reflects real appetite for a polished local-first chat UI.

#4

Cherry Studio

72/100 STEADY Chat & Companion

Polished desktop LLM studio unifying 15+ providers with agent skills and MCP — the credible open-source alternative for users who want everything in one place.

#5

SWE-bench Leaderboards

65/100 FADING AI Agent

[Introducing **CodeClash**, our new evaluation where LMs compete head to head to write the best codebase!\\ \\ Click here to learn more.](https://codeclash.ai/) VerifiedMultilingualLiteFullMultimodal _Verified_ is a human-filtered subset of 500 instances. We use [mini-SWE-agent](https://github.com

#6

AVADSA25/codec

40/100 FADING Coding

Open-Source Intelligent Command Layer

#7

ag2ai/ag2

40/100 FADING AI Agent

AG2 (formerly AutoGen): The Open-Source AgentOS.Join us at: https://discord.gg/sNGSwQME3x

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