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  <title>Eigent Alternative</title>
  <subtitle>An independent comparison of open-source alternatives to Eigent, the local desktop Cowork app. It recommends Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System, for the platform a team owns.</subtitle>
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    <title>Open Source Eigent Alternative: Kortix, the AI Operating System</title>
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    <summary>Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System, an Eigent alternative for teams: your agents, skills, memory and connectors in one repo you own.</summary>
    <content type="text">Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System, the Eigent alternative for teams that need a platform rather than one desktop app. Your agents, skills, company memory and every connector live in one git repo you own, and each session runs on its own cloud computer.</content>
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    <title>Open Source Eigent Alternatives for a Team That Owns Its AI</title>
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    <summary>Compare open-source Eigent alternatives: Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System, with agents, models and connectors in one repo you own.</summary>
    <content type="text">Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System, the Eigent alternative that runs a whole team. The open-source field splits between local desktop Cowork apps and a platform a company owns, and the difference shows up in where agents run, which models they use and how work is reviewed.</content>
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    <title>Kortix vs Eigent: Open Source Platform vs a Desktop Cowork App</title>
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    <summary>Kortix and Eigent are both open source. Kortix runs every session on a cloud sandbox from a repo you own; Eigent is a desktop Cowork app.</summary>
    <content type="text">Kortix is open source, and so is Eigent. The difference is where the work runs and who owns the configuration. Kortix runs every session on a cloud sandbox from a git repo you own. Eigent runs a Cowork desktop app on your machine.</content>
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    <title>Self-Host an Open Source Eigent Alternative</title>
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    <summary>Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System you can self-host for free. It runs as one Docker Compose stack, with sessions on your own sandbox provider.</summary>
    <content type="text">Kortix is open source, and self-host is free, so the whole platform runs on a Linux box you control. Eigent runs a Cowork desktop app on your machine. Three commands start it, and each session runs on a separate sandbox provider.</content>
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    <title>Eigent Pricing: Free, Paid, and the Open Source Alternative</title>
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    <summary>Eigent is free with your own model keys and paid from $19.99 per month; Kortix is the open source AI Operating System, free to self-host.</summary>
    <content type="text">Eigent is free when you bring your own model keys or run a local model, and its managed cloud is billed monthly with task credits (checked October 2026). Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System: self-host it free, or run a managed cloud billed per seat.</content>
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    <title>Eigent FAQ: What It Is and the Open Source Alternative</title>
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    <summary>Eigent is an open-source desktop Cowork app; Kortix is the open source AI Operating System you can self-host or run as managed cloud.</summary>
    <content type="text">Eigent is an open-source desktop Cowork app that runs agents on your own machine. Kortix is the open source AI Operating System you can self-host or run as managed cloud, with each session on its own cloud computer.</content>
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