AutoGPT

AutoGPT started as one of the first "give it a goal and let it run" autonomous agent scripts. It has since grown into the AutoGPT Platform: a full environment for designing, running, and sharing AI agents, now marketed around Otto chat and AI Experts as an "AI team" rather than a single command-line tool.

The current release is autogpt-platform-beta-v0.8.2, published September 30, 2026, following v0.8.0 (September 19) and v0.8.1 (September 24). Recent development has centered on Otto, a chat interface that generates workflows from prompts, and AI Experts aimed at research, content, and operations tasks.

Capability-wise you get a drag-and-drop Agent Builder, Otto chat, AI Experts, an agent marketplace/store to publish and reuse agents, and 45+ integrations including Slack, Discord, GitHub, and Stripe, plus scheduled workflows. Agent and workflow runs are metered through a pay-as-you-go credit wallet on every plan, and you can self-host or use the managed AutoGPT Cloud.

Pricing is tiered. The self-hosted platform code is released under a Polyform Shield license, free for personal and internal business use if you bring your own LLM API keys and compute (the separate classic AutoGPT codebase is MIT-licensed). The managed AutoGPT Cloud has no free plan, only a 7-day Pro trial that requires a card. Paid cloud tiers are Pro at $50/mo ($42.50/mo billed annually) and Max at $320/mo ($272/mo billed annually, with 8.5x Pro usage and 5x file storage); a Team tier is listed as coming soon. Workflow runs are billed separately through the credit wallet at a rate that is not published.

Limitations are worth noting. The platform is still officially beta, autonomous agents and AI Experts can burn credits or API tokens unpredictably, the credit wallet rate is not published up front, and there is no standing free tier on the cloud product beyond the one-time trial. Self-hosting avoids the subscription cost but shifts setup, LLM keys, and maintenance onto you.

AutoGPT suits developers and technical teams who want to build multi-step autonomous agents visually, publish or reuse agents from a store, and choose between free self-hosting and a managed cloud with Pro or Max subscriptions.