--- title: OpenBot 1.0 - the free, open-source alternative to Grok... description: OpenBot 1.0 is a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to AI coworker products like Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse and Claude Duet. It lets you bring... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openbot-1-0---the-free-open-source-alternative-to-grok-bot-that-you-can-fully-customize-rj3rrrtyu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenBot 1.0 - the free, open-source alternative to Grok Bot that you can fully customize | daily.dev og:description: OpenBot 1.0 is a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to AI coworker products like Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse and Claude Duet. It lets you bring... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openbot-1-0---the-free-open-source-alternative-to-grok-bot-that-you-can-fully-customize-rj3rrrtyu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rj3rRrtyU.png og:image:alt: OpenBot 1.0 - the free, open-source alternative to Grok Bot that you can fully customize og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenBot 1.0 - the free, open-source alternative to Grok Bot that you can fully customize **[Anmol Baranwal](https://daily.dev/sources/iwzfqwgzjuz3tmf4zw9az)** · [@anmolbaranwal](https://daily.dev/anmolbaranwal) · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenBot 1.0 is a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to AI coworker products like Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse and Claude Duet. It lets you bring your own model and agent, picking different models per bot. It supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints like Mistral, DeepSeek and Ollama, and is built on the AG-UI Protocol for integrating LangChain, CrewAI, Mastra and similar frameworks. Bots can run scheduled routines, spawn sub-agents, use built-in Composio and Arcade integrations, and learn new skills via a 'Teach a Bot' feature. It's MIT licensed, has 10.7K GitHub stars, and offers a Business tier with SSO and Kubernetes support. ## Content I just saw [Atai's tweet about OpenBot 1.0](https://x.com/ataiiam/status/2120170276302524488) - the local, free & open-source alternative to Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse, Claude Duet and every other AI coworker product out there. You can self-host, use any model, any agent & customize it heavily. - Download desktop app at [open.bot](https://open.bot/) - [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/CopilotKit/openbot) Just gave it a try & it fixes pretty much everything that bugs me about AI coworker products from big companies: - The data is stored on their cloud. - I can't bring my own agent.. so it's not really customizable. - I can't pick a model per bot. Let's say I want Fable for heavy tasks and Opus for the cheaper ones -- that alone would save me a lot of tokens. ## Here's what I liked the most about OpenBot: 1) The onboarding is super smooth. you can sign in with your Claude, ChatGPT, xAI, Google Gemini plan or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint like Mistral, DeepSeek, Ollama, etc.  2) You can pick different models for different bots.. so cheaper ones for simple tasks, expensive ones for heavy tasks. 3) You can switch to the OpenAI dots, Muse or Duet UI as a skin in settings. So all the openbot features with their UX instantly. 4) It's built on [AG-UI Protocol](https://github.com/ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui) so you can add LangChain, Google ADK, Mastra, Pydantic AI, Claude Agent SDK, Agno, CrewAI, AG2 and rest of the frameworks easily. 5) There is support for routines that run on a schedule & check-ins to keep an eye on anything that changes like inbox or shared doc. 6) Each bot can automatically use sub-agents on its own to split the work. 7) Composio and Arcade are built in so you get hundreds of third-party apps right away, plus web search through Parallel, Exa or Firecrawl. 8) For apps without any API, the bot just uses its own browser and shell.. you can watch it live and take over anytime like 2FA. 9) With "Teach a Bot", you just do a task once in the browser and the bot learns it as a skill it can reuse anytime. 10) You can keep a bot to yourself or share it with your team, so everyone works with the same bot. For companies there's also [OpenBot for Business](https://open.bot/business) with SSO, boundaries, audit trail, enterprise controls and a Helm chart for your own Kubernetes. It's MIT licensed and free for personal use.. 10.7K stars on GitHub already. Setup guide: [https://open.bot/builders](https://open.bot/builders) What's new in OpenBot v1.0 blog: [https://www.copilotkit.ai/blog/openbot-whats-new](https://www.copilotkit.ai/blog/openbot-whats-new) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks](https://daily.dev/posts/users-flock-to-open-source-moltbot-for-always-on-ai-despite-major-risks-9iqizak5z) · Ars Technica · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [A Guide to Grok Bot 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/a-guide-to-grok-bot-2026-c5bednlv4) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openbot-1-0---the-free-open-source-alternative-to-grok-bot-that-you-can-fully-customize-rj3rrrtyu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/openbot-1-0---the-free-open-source-alternative-to-grok-bot-that-you-can-fully-customize-rj3rrrtyu","headline":"OpenBot 1.0 - the free, open-source alternative to Grok Bot that you can fully customize","text":"OpenBot 1.0 is a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to AI coworker products like Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse and Claude Duet. 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