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10 alternatives to openai-cookbook

openai/openai-cookbook — Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API (76,900 stars, MIT, ai).

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 does not serve code from openai/openai-cookbook itself (licence class: permissive), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1songquanpeng/one-api7.1MIT37,243
2f/prompts.chat6.9CC0-1.0175,475
3langchain4j/langchain4j8.1Apache-2.013,286
4taishi-i/awesome-chatgpt-repositories5.2CC0-1.03,325
5wangrongding/wechat-bot6.9MIT11,473
6the-open-agent/openagent6.5Apache-2.05,708
7miuzhaii/grok2api-pro7.0MIT27
8dair-ai/prompt-engineering-guide5.9MIT79,499
9nousresearch/hermes-agent7.1MIT258,896
10transformeroptimus/superagi6.4MIT17,711

The alternatives in detail

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