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10 alternatives to gpt-researcher

assafelovic/gpt-researcher — An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers (30,219 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, ai, realtime).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 222 licence-cleared components from assafelovic/gpt-researcher itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1openraiser/nanoresearch6.2MIT1,338
2microsoft/rd-agent4.7MIT15,057
3apify/apify-mcp-server5.9MIT12,450
4thinkinaixyz/deepchat6.1Apache-2.06,371
5shawnpana/phone-harness7.1MIT3,916
6patchy631/ai-engineering-hub5.9MIT38,412
7aaif-goose/goose7.1Apache-2.055,482
8evermind-ai/everos6.8Apache-2.013,550
9github/github-mcp-server7.0MIT33,894
10valuecell-ai/clawx6.5MIT7,601

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