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AgentGPT vs AutoGPT

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. AgentGPT starts at $40, AutoGPT at $42.50. Both have a free tier.

AgentGPTBrowser-based autonomous agent that splits a written goal into tasks and runs them in a loopAutoGPTBlock-based builder for agents that keep running on a schedule

Side by side

FactAgentGPTAutoGPT
CategoryAI Agents & Autonomous WorkersAI Agents & Autonomous Workers
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$40 month$42.50 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWebWeb, Linux
CompanyReworkdSignificant Gravitas
Launched20232023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

AgentGPT

AgentGPT is the quickest way to watch goal-decomposition agents work without installing anything, and the GPL-3.0 source makes it a useful teaching artifact. The catch is that it is frozen in time: the repo was archived in January 2026 and the hosted app is still wired to 2023-era models.

Pros

  • Runs in the browser with no install or API key wrangling for the free tier
  • Full source under GPL-3.0, so it can be forked and self-hosted
  • Templates make the goal-to-task pattern easy to see
  • Clear published plan page rather than sales-call-only pricing

Cons

  • GitHub repository archived in January 2026; last code push was April 2025
  • Pricing page still sells GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 era capabilities
  • Reworkd sunset its commercial data-extraction product, so the company's focus has moved on

AutoGPT

The name that started the autonomous-agent wave is now a fairly conventional low-code workflow builder, and it is worth judging on that basis rather than on the 2023 demos — as a self-hosted option it is strong, as a paid cloud product it is expensive.

Pros

  • Genuinely open source outside the platform directory, with a very large contributor community
  • Self-hosting is free and unrestricted for internal use
  • Visual block builder plus a marketplace of prebuilt agents lowers the starting effort
  • Hosted option removes infrastructure, model access and credential management

Cons

  • Cloud Pro at $42.50/month is steep for an allowance that still needs pay-as-you-go credits on top
  • Polyform Shield on the platform directory rules out commercial redistribution
  • Two-tier cloud pricing jumps from $42.50 to $272 with nothing in between
  • Team plan is advertised as coming soon rather than available

Which one fits

Choose AgentGPT if you need

  • Trying the autonomous-agent loop concept with zero setup
  • Students and educators who want readable open-source agent code
  • Teams self-hosting a simple agent runner they intend to fork

Choose AutoGPT if you need

  • Teams that want to self-host an agent platform and own the infrastructure
  • Building scheduled, continuously running automations rather than one-shot tasks
  • Anyone who prefers wiring blocks to writing agent code

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