Overview
AutoGPT is the project that made autonomous agents a mainstream idea, and it now ships as a platform with a visual builder plus a hosted tier. The licence matters more than the marketing here: the current platform code under autogpt_platform/ is Polyform Shield 1.0.0 — source-available with a non-compete restriction, not permissive open source — and only the legacy classic/ components are MIT. Self-hosting via Docker Compose is the credible path; the hosted product's REST API is referenced in the docs navigation but no concrete endpoint reference was published at the time of writing, so treat programmatic access to the cloud version as unconfirmed.
Key Features
- ✓Visual drag-and-drop agent builder
- ✓Self-hostable via a single Docker Compose command
- ✓Polyform Shield licence on the platform, MIT on legacy components
- ✓Hosted tiers with a credit wallet on top of subscription
- ✓Very large, actively maintained open-source project
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