AutoGPT

license

PolyForm-Shield(non-OSI, source-available, anti-compete

source

public

The flagship AutoGPT Platform is released under Polyform Shield, a source-available license that is not OSI-approved and bars selling it as a competing hosted service, while the older Classic agent, Forge and agbenchmark are MIT. The full source is public and free to self-host, but the platform license keeps it from counting as open source.

• https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT recorded 2026-08-13

  README license table - autogpt_platform/ under Polyform Shield, "free for personal and internal business use; cannot be sold as a competing hosted service", classic components under MIT; full source published with self-hosting available without a license fee; 186.6k stars, 46.1k forks

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

  The LICENSE file states "Everything inside the autogpt_platform folder is under the Polyform Shield License" and "Everything outside the autogpt_platform folder is under the MIT License."

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README license table lists autogpt_platform/ under Polyform Shield, "Free for personal and internal business use; cannot be sold as a competing hosted service", and everything else under MIT.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README says the same repository serves both paths and self-hosting is free: "No license fee; pay your own infrastructure and model providers", with "Core builder and agent runtime" included.

AutoGPT publishes no platform download or monthly-active-user figure, leaving GitHub stars on its single repository as the only comparable adoption signal. A star is not a use, so the count shows historical interest rather than current, ongoing adoption.

• https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT recorded 2026-08-13

  186.6k stars, 46.1k forks; hosted plan and Docker self-host, no user or download count published

Pioneering but the autonomous loop has been surpassed; the low-code platform is its current value. No competitive agent-benchmark number is published, so this reads low-mid on its feature set.

• https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT recorded 2026-08-13

  visual builder with per-step configuration, agents run on demand, on a schedule or from a trigger; hosted and self-hosted deployment; no benchmark figure published

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README describes building agents where you "Describe an outcome in plain English or shape every step in the visual builder", run on demand, on a schedule, or from a trigger; no benchmark result is published there.