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AI Coding Agents

Agents and assistants that read, write, and execute code autonomously or semi-autonomously inside a developer's own environment.

#1 10.0

opencode

Open-source terminal coding agent

+ 189448 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#2 9.57

Goose

Open-source, extensible AI agent that installs, executes, edits, and tests code

+ 51647 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#3 9.44

Continue

Open-source AI code assistant for any IDE

+ 35101 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#4 8.72

OpenHands

AI agent platform for autonomous software development

+ 82008 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
#5 8.68

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal

+ 47680 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)

AI Crawlers

Crawling tools that use semantic models to understand pages, generate or repair extraction rules, or convert web pages into LLM-usable formats.

#1 9.71

Crawl4AI

Local, self-hosted, LLM-friendly web crawler

+ 74904 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#2 9.36

ScrapeGraphAI

Natural-language-driven graph-based data extraction framework

+ 28616 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3 8.79

Firecrawl

Full Web Context API and agent web-data platform

+ 155661 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
- restrictive/copyleft license (AGPL-3.0)
#4 7.33

WebClaw

Rust-built CLI, MCP, and self-hosted web extraction tool

+ recently active
- restrictive/copyleft license (AGPL-3.0)
#5 5.0

ai-web-research

Deterministic, LLM-independent robots/sitemap-aware crawler producing LLM-ready Markdown with a resumable frontier

+ recently active

Agent Orchestration Platforms

Platforms providing scheduling, skills, multi-agent routing, and long-running control planes.

#1 9.0

OpenClaw

Local-first, long-running personal agent control plane

+ 384063 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
#2 8.08

Kortix/Suna

Enterprise-grade agent command center

+ recently active

Browser Agents

AI-driven automation tools that autonomously decide browser interactions — clicking, typing, scrolling, navigating.

#1 10.0

Browser Use

General-purpose AI browser agent

+ 106661 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#2 9.48

Stagehand

Production-grade browser automation framework mixing AI and code

+ 23627 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3 8.26

Skyvern

Workflow automation platform combining LLMs, vision models, and Playwright

+ 22584 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
- restrictive/copyleft license (AGPL-3.0)
#4 6.86

Nanobrowser

Local multi-agent browser extension running directly in Chrome/Edge

+ 13505 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Crawler Frameworks

Frameworks providing deterministic crawling infrastructure — URL frontier, retry, rate limiting, session management.

#1 9.96

Crawlee Python

Modern Python crawling and browser automation engineering foundation

+ 9356 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Deep Research Agents

Research agents that automatically search, read, cross-verify multiple sources, and generate cited reports.

#1 9.9

GPT Researcher

Full open-source deep research agent

+ 28626 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#2 9.66

Open Deep Research

Configurable deep research agent in the LangGraph ecosystem

+ 12421 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3 8.76

SurfSense

Competitive intelligence, continuous monitoring, and research knowledge-base platform

+ 15442 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
#4 7.04

DeepSearcher

Private documents, vector database, and deep search

+ 8013 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)

General-Purpose Language Models

Open-weight large language models released by major AI labs, usable outside any single vendor's hosted API.

#1 8.98

Gemma

Google DeepMind's family of lightweight open-weight models

+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#2 7.77

Qwen

Alibaba's open-weight large language model family

+ 21473 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#3 7.12

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek's open-weight mixture-of-experts language model

+ 103997 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (MIT)
#4 6.23

Llama

Meta's family of open-weight large language models

Local Model Tools

Runtimes, servers, and interfaces for running language models on your own hardware instead of a hosted API.

#1 10.0

Ollama

Run large language models locally

+ 176822 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#2 9.88

llama.cpp

LLM inference in C/C++, runs on commodity hardware

+ 121522 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3 9.76

vLLM

High-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

+ 87101 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#4 9.42

SGLang

High-performance serving framework for language and multimodal models

+ 30714 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#5 7.63

Text Generation WebUI

Open-source desktop app and web UI for running local LLMs

+ 47487 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
- restrictive/copyleft license (AGPL-3.0)

Vector Databases

Databases and search engines purpose-built for storing and querying high-dimensional embedding vectors.

#1 10.0

Milvus

Open-source vector database built for scalable similarity search

+ 45371 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#2 9.88

Qdrant

Vector similarity search engine and database

+ 33569 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#3 9.83

Chroma

Open-source embedding database for AI applications

+ 28874 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#4 9.62

Weaviate

Open-source vector database with built-in ML model integrations

+ 16648 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (BSD-3-Clause)
#5 8.53

pgvector

Open-source vector similarity search extension for PostgreSQL

+ 22337 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active