Alternatives to Merlin

Claude

AI built for thoughtful work

ChatGPT

Conversational AI assistant

Midjourney

Imagine, then create

Perplexity

Where knowledge begins

v0

Generate UI with a prompt

AFFiNE

All in one Knowledge management OS

aider

AI pair programming in your terminal, supporting multiple LLM providers

AutoGPT

Platform for building, deploying, and running AI agents

Bing Image Creator

DALLE·3 based text-to-image generator with safety features

ChatGPT

Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work

Cline

AI Coding, Open Source and Open Choice

Crawl4AI

Open-source web crawler and scraper

ego lite

Fastest browser for AI agents

Jan

Jan runs open-source AI models on your own hardware or connects

Langflow

Build, deploy, and iterate on AI agents, RAG applications, and MCP servers

LibreChat

LibreChat is a free and open-source chat interface for assistant AIs

llama.cpp

C/C++ inference engine for large language models, supporting quantization

LobeHub

An open-source AI Agent Workspace

Ollama

Load and run large LLMs locally to use in your terminal or build your apps

Open WebUI

Run AI on your own terms

OpenClaw

Open-source personal AI assistant / agent framework

OpenCode

Open-source terminal-native AI coding agent

OpenHands

AI agent platform that runs autonomous coding agents to plan, write

Orca

Agent Development Environment that runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini

Paperclip

Manages teams of AI agents across business functions

pi

Terminal-based coding agent with a minimal core, 15+ LLM providers

vLLM

Inference and serving engine for large language models, built

Warp

Terminal built for running AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex

Zed

Your last next editor

1Panel

Comprehensive web-based tool for Linux server administration

Agno

Open-source platform that enables developers to create

AnythingLLM

A desktop and self-hostable AI app for chatting

AppFlowy

Open source collaborative workspace combining notes, databases, and AI

Buzz

Workspace that combines team chat, project planning, and git management

Chat2DB

DBMS 、BI 、Report 、 NL2SQL、NL2Report

Cherry Studio

Desktop AI client for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Chroma

Open-source vector database designed for AI applications

Continue

Open-source AI code assistant

CopilotKit

Integrate production-ready AI copilots into any product quickly and easily

Deep Nostalgia

Animates old photos using AI

Dyad

Free, Local, Open-Source AI App Builder

FastGPT

FastGPT is a free, open-source platform

GDevelop

Free, open-source game engine with visual event system, AI tutor

getleon

Leon is your open-source personal assistant who can live on your server

Grok

SpaceXAI's AI assistant (formerly xAI)

Keploy

Open source Tool for converting user traffic to Test Cases and Data Stubs

Khoj

Self-hostable AI assistant that connects to your docs and the web

Kilo Code

Open Source AI coding assistant for planning, building

Langfuse

Trace, evaluate, and improve AI agents with one open platform

Lightpanda

Purpose-built headless browser