Product / UX / Orchestration & agents

GPT Researcher

Autonomous research agent that plans sub-queries, searches web and local sources, and synthesizes findings into a cited report. It is purpose-built for research rather than coding, orchestrating search, scraping and synthesis into one workflow, and ships a frontend and Docker deployment alongside the library.

Verified 2026-08-13 via the assafelovic/gpt-researcher repository.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: Apache-2.0(OSI)
source: public
core-gated: ungated

Verified Apache-2.0 OSI, full source public, no proprietary tier.

https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher recorded 2026-08-13
Apache-2.0 license on the repo and repeated in the README; full source including frontend and Dockerfile/Dockerfile.fullstack; 29.0k stars, 3.9k forks; no paid or enterprise tier

Adoption

2 medium confidence

2.0

80,472 downloads in the trailing 30 days for the one declared artifact, gpt-researcher, which bands at level 2 (10K-100K) on the software and model adoption scale.

https://pypistats.org/api/packages/gpt-researcher/recent recorded 2026-08-13
80,472 downloads in the trailing 30 days for gpt-researcher

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

Solid, focused deep-research agent; no headline GAIA/benchmark number, scored on feature matrix. Narrower than general coding/multi-tool agents; mid-tier.

https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher recorded 2026-08-13
deep research agent over web and local sources with cited multi-source reports, frontend and Docker deployment included; no benchmark figure published

Verified 2026-08-13