GPT Researcher is listed under Deep Research & Documents, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Planner and executor agents gather from 20+ web sources. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
GPT Researcher is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
GPT Researcher needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on self-hosting and an API.
GPT Researcher does 4 things the catalog singles out: Planner and executor agents gather from 20+ web sources; produces cited reports exported as pdf, word or markdown; also researches local pdfs, text and excel files; works with many llm providers; apache 2.0.
MiroThinker is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Deep Research & Documents sub-category and is free. STORM (Stanford), Tongyi DeepResearch and ima.copilot (Tencent ima) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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