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.
Kortix is open source and Eigent is open source. They split on where the work runs and who owns the config.
Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System. Your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector live in one git repo you own, and each session runs on its own cloud computer.
Eigent is an open-source Cowork desktop application. It is built on CAMEL's multi-agent framework and ships as an Electron app that runs local-first on your machine. Its own README calls it "the open source Cowork desktop application" (Eigent on GitHub).
Kortix runs the platform on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Every session gets its own isolated sandbox, on its own branch, and sessions never share one machine.
Eigent runs agents on your own desktop. Its README lists a local deployment with a local backend, local model integration, and no cloud account as the recommended setup. A managed cloud plan is offered for teams that prefer hosted infrastructure (Eigent).
Kortix keeps the configuration in files inside a git repo you own. Agents and skills are markdown, memory is files, and kortix.yaml declares the machine image, the connectors, and the triggers. You can read any of it and diff a change before it lands.
Eigent keeps the setup inside the desktop app. You package the agents, skills, and connectors your team relies on into a Space profile and reuse it, with secrets bound to your machine (Eigent).
In Kortix, session work reaches main through a change request. Merge is default-deny for agents, so a person reads the diff and decides. You can list and merge change requests from the CLI with kortix cr ls and kortix cr merge.
Eigent lets you follow an agent's progress, inspect sources and file changes, and then approve the result or ask for revisions. Review happens inside the desktop app rather than as a git change request.
Choose Eigent if you want a single Cowork app on your own machine, with private keys and local models.
Choose Kortix if you want the platform a whole team runs on: one repo that holds the agents, skills, memory, and connectors, sessions on their own cloud computers, and every change landing as a reviewable change request. Teams that need their own VPC or on-prem network, per-resource permissions, and SAML 2.0 SSO are the ones Kortix is built for. Try Kortix and keep the config in your own repo.
For the wider field, read Kortix vs Eigent vs Kuse AI and Open-source AI agent platform.
1project (git repo + kortix.yaml)2└─ session ──> isolated sandbox on branch "<uuid>"3└─ agent commits + pushes4└─ change request ──> merge ──> default branchFrom the Kortix docs overview. Each session runs on its own sandbox and branch, and reaches the default branch through a change request.
Yes. Eigent calls itself the open source Cowork desktop application, built on CAMEL. Kortix is open source too. The difference is where the work runs and who owns the config, not whether the code is open.
Kortix runs each session on its own cloud sandbox, and you can self-host the platform on your own VPC or on-prem network. Eigent runs agents locally on your desktop. Pick Eigent for a single desktop app; pick Kortix for a platform a team runs from one repo.
In Kortix, session work reaches main through a change request, and merge is default-deny for agents, so a person reads the diff first. In Eigent you watch the agent's progress and approve the result or ask for revisions inside the app.
Kortix: free is $0 with 200 credits per month and 1 project; the team plan is $40 per seat per month with 2,500 pooled credits per seat, and self-host is free. Eigent has a free tier with your own keys, then paid plans at $19.99 and $99.99 per month after a seven-day trial. Prices checked October 2026; confirm both on each vendor's pricing page.
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