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DeepTutor alternatives (2026)
DeepTutor is a personal agents tool: Open-source personalized AI tutoring agent from HKU that turns your materials into guided explanations, practice and long-term learning support. Pricing, as the maker states it: Open source. Its GitHub repo has 41,594 stars. We found 87 tools in the directory that do overlapping work (personal assistance, memory for agents); 50 of them are open source and 15 list a free or freemium plan. Below are the 10 closest, ranked by how many tasks and sub-tasks they share with DeepTutor, then by GitHub stars.
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Quick comparison Top 10 of 11 listed below. Pricing as the maker states it; blank means we don't have it.
| Tool | Pricing | Best for | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
 Nanobot | Open source | Build an agent | Yes |
 Rowboat | Open source | Give agents memory | Yes |
 Osaurus | Open source | Build an agent | Yes |
 Mercury Agent | Open source | Give agents memory | Yes |
 Memmy | Open source | Give agents memory | Yes |
 Jarvis | Source-available | Control a computer | Source-available |
 CORE | See site | Give agents memory | |
 Dodaios | Open source | Write code | Yes |
 Akeru Bot | Open source | Control a computer | Yes |
 Guaca | Open source | Write code | Yes |
- Nanobot (Open source): Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal agent framework in Python with a web UI, tools, memory and MCP support. Consider it because it is aimed at developers who want to build on it; it also covers agent frameworks and SDKs and local and self-hosted; it has more GitHub stars (49,096 vs 41,594).
- Rowboat (Open source): AI coworker with memory that works alongside you and your team. Consider it because it does the same job with a different approach (open source).
- Osaurus (Open source): Native macOS harness for AI agents with any model, memory and autonomous execution. Consider it because it also covers agent frameworks and SDKs.
- Mercury Agent (Open source): Self-hosted personal AI agent with a written personality, local memory, permission-gated tools and token budgets, reachable via CLI or Telegram. Consider it because it also covers agents in chat apps and guardrails and policies.
- Memmy (Open source): A local-first personal AI agent with a self-evolving long-term memory that its desktop app, CLI and your other AI agents can all share. Consider it because it also covers computer and desktop control and local and self-hosted.
- Jarvis (Source-available): Private, local-first desktop AI assistant with voice and text chat, personal memory, dictation and MCP tools. Consider it because it also covers voice and phone agents and computer and desktop control.
- CORE (See site): Always-on personal AI that builds a memory graph from your email, meetings and tools, then plans and runs tasks like opening a pull request. Consider it because it also covers code review and planning and task tracking.
- Dodaios (Open source): Open-source desktop agent OS for Windows, macOS and Linux (formerly Personal Jarvis): talk to it and it runs your coding CLIs side by side, your browser and your apps, with offline Whisper speech, a local wiki memory and support for Ollama, Claude or ChatGPT subscriptions. Consider it because it also covers running many agents in parallel and voice and phone agents.
- Akeru Bot (Open source): Open-source alternative to Grok Bot for named AI teammates: local-first desktop, web and mobile clients where each bot has its own tools, instructions and memory. MIT-licensed independent fork of T3 Code. Consider it because it is aimed at developers who want to build on it; it also covers computer and desktop control and local and self-hosted.
- Guaca (Open source): Desktop workspace inspired by Grok Bot where AI agents collaborate, write code and use tools; runs locally or on your own server, with shared conversations, persistent memory and MCP plugins. AGPL-3.0. Consider it because it is aimed at developers who want to build on it; it also covers computer and desktop control and local and self-hosted.
DeepTutor vs alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Pricing | Open source / licence | GitHub stars | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 DeepTutor | Open source | Apache License 2.0 | 41,594 | personal assistance, memory for agents |
| Nanobot | Open source | MIT | 49,096 | building AI agents, personal assistance |
| Rowboat | Open source | Apache License 2.0 | 18,025 | personal assistance, memory for agents |
| Osaurus | Open source | MIT | 8,052 | building AI agents, personal assistance |
| Mercury Agent | Open source | Yes | 3,433 | coding in the terminal, personal assistance |
| Memmy | Open source | Yes | 2,125 | coding in the terminal, personal assistance |
| Jarvis | Source-available | No | 2,097 | controlling a computer, building voice agents |
| CORE | See site | No | 1,999 | reviewing pull requests, writing and managing email |
| Dodaios | Open source | Apache License 2.0 | 244 | writing code, browsing the web |
| Akeru Bot | Open source | Yes | 101 | controlling a computer, personal assistance |
| Guaca | Open source | Yes | 46 | writing code, personal assistance |
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Alternatives are picked from directory data only: same category plus shared tasks and sub-tasks. Pricing is as each maker states it; GitHub stars as recorded on each listing.