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24 alternatives to BrainOS Website

Fork it, run it locally — your own AI agent workforce

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 4 we have checked on their own sites, 4 of them free or with a free tier.

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    MindOS▲534

    Create autonomous AI agents for your professional tasks

    2023 · second.me · its alternatives →

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    Osaurus▲534

    Open source agents that run 100% locally on your Mac

    Jul 2026 · osaurus.ai · its alternatives →

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    Brainfish▲462

    📖 Self-learning AI agent to create and update help docs

    2025 · brainfishai.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentOS▲100

    Manage AI agents, tasks, workspaces from one control layer

    Jun 2026 · sapienx.app · its alternatives →

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    Solidfree tier, from $40/mo▲471

    Agents with their own computers, accounts, and budgets.

    Sep 2026 · solid.tech · its alternatives →

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    Build the AI operating system for your company

    Aug 2026 · os.cloudflare.app · its alternatives →

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    Agentlyfree tier, from $33/mo▲336

    Agently is an AI Work OS where documents, tasks, team chat, and integrations are fully interconnected, and AI employees operate inside that shared workspace. Instead of prompting AI in isolation, agents can read project context, turn strategy docs into tasks, coordinate with teammates, run research/outreach/content workflows, update boards, and push results back into the system or external tools. The workspace acts as persistent memory, so work continues instead of resetting every prompt. Happy to answer any questions

    Jul 2026 · agently.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open-source homeserver OS with a built-in AI agent

    Jul 2026 · livinity.io · its alternatives →

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    Openbasefree▲216

    Manage your team of AI agents by voice, from anywhere

    Jul 2026 · openbase.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Local▲107

    Super excited to launch our new app Local today. What we’ve learned at Base Compute over the last months is that running AI directly on your laptop or workstation gives you maximum privacy and it’s free, but it’s also a massive headache to configure. So we’ve decided what matters is making the experience completely frictionless for users. Local analyses the hardware of your laptop, optimises the AI for it, and recommends the best models for your specific device. It let’s you do what you’re doing with cloud AI already, just for free and on your own machine: Chatting with PDF’s, Recording and…

    Aug 2026 · basecompute.co · its alternatives →

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    Brainfree▲8

    A small, blazingly fast and extensible agent runtime

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self AI▲72

    Talent OS that predicts performance, not just parses resumes

    May 2026 · selfskill.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI adoption operating system for companies

    May 2026 · talentosapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Cortex▲70

    Run multiple claude-code agents from YAML config

    Jan 2026 · cortex-cli.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Give your company a brain that evolves and acts.

    May 2026 · platformpilot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI agent platform — own it, run any model

    Jul 2026 · ibl.ai · its alternatives →

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    mindlap▲35

    Run multiple AI coding agents in parallel with Mindlap's orchestration platform — plan, track, and scale agents across your full software development lifecycle.

    2025 · mindlap.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG-UI agent. - CopilotKit/OpenBot

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Workforce - The OS for Smarter Knowledge Work

    2025 · expertops.ai · its alternatives →

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    An AI-native OS. Models run on your own hardware, nodes federate peer-to-peer with no broker, and the API is OpenAI-compatible. Boots, has its own Wayland compositor, and runs on 8GB. Apache 2.0. - hertz-ai/HARTOS

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Open-source Agent Operating System

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    An Open Source Agentic Operating System

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    The first glimpse of an AI-native Linux Operating System

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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