An open-source autonomous research agent that plans a task, runs parallel multi-source web searches, validates sources, and synthesizes a cited report. It runs locally as a Python package, FastAPI server, or MCP server, and works with any LLM provider plus a search/retriever backend. Free and Apache-2.0 licensed — you only pay your own LLM and search-API costs.
Research · Assaf Elovic / Tavily
GPT Researcher
Autonomous AI agent that runs deep multi-source web research and writes cited reports.
BYO KEYOpen sourceSelf-hostWebCLIAPI
Model support
BYO key / model
Any LLM provider via config; requires your own LLM + retriever (e.g. Tavily) keys.
Where it runs
- Web
- CLI
- API
Tags
- #open-source
- #self-hosted
- #research
- #agent
- #rag
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