Open Source AI Tools

The best open source AI tools do one of three jobs: run a model on hardware you control, extend an AI coding agent, or automate work end to end. This category holds 56 tools, 49 of them free and 7 freemium. Pick by the part you need to own. Want speech synthesis without a hosted API in the loop, run a local model like Kokoro. Want your agent to remember past sessions, look at Claude Mem. Want a pipeline on your own server, start with n8n.

56 tools ยท Catalog updated

Open Source tools

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Caveman

Featured

Open Source

Claude Code skill that cuts token usage by 65% by making the AI speak in compressed caveman shorthand โ€” same results, far fewer tokens.

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CL4R1T4S

Featured

Open Source

A massive crowd-sourced collection of leaked system prompts from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, and dozens more AI products.

system promptstransparencyprompt engineering
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Claude Mem

Featured

Open Source

Persistent memory across sessions for any AI agent โ€” captures, compresses, and injects context back into Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, and more.

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CSM (Sesame)

Featured

Open Source

Sesame AI Labs' Conversational Speech Model โ€” ultra-realistic voice generation with natural prosody and emotion.

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Kokoro

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Open Source

Fast, lightweight open-source TTS model (82M params) โ€” high-quality voice synthesis that runs locally with minimal compute.

text-to-speechvoiceaudio
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MarkItDown

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Open Source

Microsoft's open-source Python tool that converts any file or Office document โ€” PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images โ€” into clean Markdown.

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n8n

Featured

Open Source

Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities โ€” 400+ integrations, visual builder, custom code, and self-host or cloud.

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Freemium
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Odysseus

Featured

Open Source

Self-hosted AI workspace โ€” a private, open-source alternative to commercial AI platforms you fully control.

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Orpheus TTS

Featured

Open Source

Human-sounding open-source TTS with emotional expression โ€” real-time capable, LLM-based speech synthesis by Canopy AI.

text-to-speechvoiceaudio
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Ruflo

Featured

Open Source

The leading agent meta-harness for Claude โ€” deploy multi-agent swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems.

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Taste Skill

Featured

Open Source

Gives your AI agent good taste โ€” stops it from generating boring, generic slop by injecting aesthetic judgment into every output.

writingclaude codecreativity
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Zonos

Featured

Open Source

Zyphra's open-weight TTS model trained on 200k+ hours โ€” expressive multilingual speech matching top commercial providers.

text-to-speechvoice cloningaudio
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AI Engineering Hub

Open Source

In-depth tutorials and notebooks on LLMs, RAG pipelines, and real-world AI agent applications.

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AI Job Search

Open Source

AI-powered job search framework built on Claude Code โ€” evaluates postings, tailors your CV, writes cover letters, and preps you for interviews.

job searchclaude codeopen source
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Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

Open Source

817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, D3FEND, and more โ€” works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and 20+ platforms.

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Awesome Design.md

Open Source

A curated collection of 70+ DESIGN.md files reverse-engineered from real websites โ€” drop one into your project and let AI coding agents generate a UI that matches the brand.

markdownai agentsopen source
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Browser Use

Open Source

Open-source browser automation platform that lets AI agents use the internet like a human โ€” click, type, navigate, and extract data from any website.

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Claude Ads

Open Source

Claude Code skill for running paid-media audits and operations across 12 ad platforms.

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Claude Code Router

Open Source

Local control plane that routes Claude Code (and other AI agents) across different models, tools, and providers.

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Claude Task Master

Open Source

AI-powered task-management system that drops into Cursor, Lovable, Windsurf, and other AI coding tools.

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Crawl4AI

Open Source

Open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper that outputs clean markdown and structured data built for RAG and AI pipelines.

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Dub

Open Source

Open-source link-shortener and attribution platform used by teams like Framer, Perplexity, and Superhuman.

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Freemium
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Find Skills

Open Source

Claude Code skill that discovers and installs the right agent skill for whatever you're working on, from the Vercel Labs skills package manager.

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Graphify

Open Source

Claude Code/Cursor/Codex skill that turns a codebase โ€” docs, SQL schemas, configs, PDFs included โ€” into a queryable knowledge graph.

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Graphiti

Open Source

Open-source framework for building real-time, temporally-aware knowledge graphs for AI agents.

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Hoppscotch

Open Source

Open-source API development ecosystem โ€” an alternative to Postman and Insomnia, for web, desktop, and CLI.

api testingdeveloper toolsopen source
Freemium
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Humanizer

Open Source

Claude Code skill that strips AI tells from generated text, making it read naturally as human-written prose.

writingclaude codeai detection
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img2threejs

Open Source

Converts a reference image of an object into a procedural, animation-ready Three.js model โ€” built from primitives, shaders, and generated geometry instead of photogrammetry.

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Impeccable

Open Source

A design skill for AI coding agents that gives them 23 precise commands and 59 detector rules to stop shipping "AI slop" UI and start producing polished, on-brand interfaces.

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Langflow

Open Source

Low-code visual builder for AI agents and workflows โ€” drag-and-drop LangChain-style pipelines with instant API deployment.

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Ling

Open Source

MoE LLM with RL-trained reasoning from InclusionAI โ€” open-source, multilingual, built for complex reasoning tasks.

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LLM Wiki

Open Source

Andrej Karpathy's pattern for AI-maintained knowledge bases that compound over time โ€” a durable alternative to re-querying RAG on every question.

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Marketing Skills

Open Source

A plug-and-play library of marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents โ€” CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering.

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Maxun

Open Source

Open-source no-code platform that turns any website into a structured API โ€” build web scrapers and crawlers by clicking, not coding.

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NoSignups

Open Source

Directory of 150+ free, open-source web tools that need zero signup โ€” design, dev, media, productivity, and privacy utilities.

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NVIDIA Nemotron

Open Source

Family of open-weight models with hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture and 1M-token context window. Designed for specialized AI agents with multimodal support across video, audio, image, and speech.

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Open WebUI

Open Source

Self-hosted, user-friendly chat interface for local and API-based LLMs โ€” supports Ollama, OpenAI-compatible APIs, RAG, and more.

self-hostedchat uiollama
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OpenHands

Open Source

AI software engineering agent platform that can write code, run commands, browse the web, and call APIs to complete real dev tasks.

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OSINT Skill

Open Source

Claude Code skill that turns a name or handle into a scored OSINT dossier โ€” psychoprofile, career map, and confidence grades.

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Papercups

Open Source

Open-source live customer chat you can self-host, with a hosted cloud option.

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Freemium
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Pi

Open Source

Unified AI agent toolkit โ€” single LLM API, agent loop, TUI, and coding agent CLI in one TypeScript package.

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Pocketbase

Open Source

Open-source realtime backend โ€” database, auth, file storage, and admin UI โ€” in a single executable file.

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Postiz

Open Source

Open-source, agentic social media scheduling and publishing tool.

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Freemium
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Repomix

Open Source

Packs an entire code repository into a single, AI-friendly file for feeding into LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.

developer toolsllmcode context
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Ring-V2

Open Source

Reasoning MoE LLM open-sourced by InclusionAI โ€” Mixture-of-Experts architecture with strong reasoning capabilities.

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Scout

Open Source

Free lead-generation CLI that scrapes and enriches profiles from Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, GitHub, and more.

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SkillOpt

Open Source

Optimizes natural-language skill documents for AI agents without touching model weights โ€” evolving skills through rollouts, reflection, bounded edits, and validation.

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Stanford CS 229 Cheatsheets

Open Source

VIP cheatsheets for Stanford's CS 229 Machine Learning course โ€” concise visual summaries of every major ML concept.

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Step-3.7-Flash

Open Source

Fast reasoning model by StepFun offering high-speed inference for complex tasks. Open-source model optimized for speed without sacrificing reasoning quality.

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Stirling PDF

Open Source

Free, open-source PDF editor and processor โ€” merge, split, convert, compress, OCR, and edit PDFs, self-hosted or via web app.

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Strix

Open Source

Autonomous pentesting platform that finds, validates, and auto-fixes vulnerabilities across APIs, web apps, code, infrastructure, and cloud โ€” with merge-ready PRs and CI/CD gating.

securitypentestingopen source
Freemium
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Trigger.dev

Open Source

Open-source platform for building and deploying fully-managed AI agents and background workflows.

background jobsai agentsworkflow automation
Freemium
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User Research Skill

Open Source

End-to-end user research skill for AI agents โ€” AI interviews, synthetic users, quant surveys, and participant recruitment in one toolkit.

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Vane

Open Source

Open-source AI-powered answering engine โ€” ask questions, get cited answers, self-host for full control.

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VibeVoice

Open Source

Microsoft's open-source voice AI framework โ€” long-form, multi-speaker text-to-speech and transcription, plus a lightweight real-time streaming TTS model.

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Video Shotcraft

Open Source

AI agent skill that turns Claude Code or Codex into a motion-design studio for cinematic product videos.

video generationclaude code skillremotion

What does open source actually buy you here?

Two things: the code runs where you put it, and you can read what it does. The payoff differs by tool. Kokoro is an 82M parameter text-to-speech model, small enough to run locally, so voice generation costs compute instead of usage fees. MarkItDown, Microsoft's converter, turns PDFs, Word files, Excel sheets, slides and images into clean Markdown on your own machine, so the documents never leave it. Browser Use drives a real browser for agents, clicking, typing and pulling data from pages like a person would. The trade is ownership. You handle setup, updates, and whatever breaks.

How do I choose between them?

Start from the layer you are missing. If the agent itself is the bottleneck, look at skills and harnesses: Claude Mem carries context between sessions across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Copilot, and Caveman compresses how the model talks to cut token usage. If the plumbing between apps is the bottleneck, n8n is a visual workflow builder with 400 plus integrations that you self-host or run in their cloud. Then read the pricing label. 49 of these tools are free and 7 are freemium, so a paid tier usually covers hosting rather than the software. Last, check the project is still maintained, because a dead repo becomes your problem.

Frequently asked questions

Are open source AI tools free?
Mostly. Of the 56 tools in this category, 49 are free and 7 are freemium. Freemium here usually means the code is open and the paid tier covers a hosted cloud version, as with n8n. Running a free tool still costs something: your own compute, storage and time to keep it working.
Do I need a GPU to run these?
It depends on the tool. Models that generate audio or text need real compute, though small ones are forgiving. Kokoro is 82M parameters and built to run locally on modest hardware. Tools that are skills, converters or automation layers, like MarkItDown, Caveman or n8n, mostly call other services and run fine on a laptop.
What is the difference between open source and self-hosted?
Open source describes the license: you can read, modify and redistribute the code. Self-hosted describes where it runs: on your machine or server rather than a vendor's. Most tools here are both, but not all. Some open source projects also sell a hosted version, and some hosted products are not open at all.