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Best Open Source AI & Machine Learning Tools

Ranked by GitHub stars — actual adoption, not editorial taste. All 10 are free, open source and self-hostable; license and last activity on every entry.

1. 1
   OpenClaw ★ 394K

   An AI assistant that acts, not just answers

   MIT TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
2. 2
   Hermes Agent ★ 260K

   Desktop AI agent with persistent memory across platforms

   MIT Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →
3. 3
   Ollama ★ 186K

   Run open-source LLMs locally on your own machine

   MIT Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
4. 4
   ponytail ★ 183K

   Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

   MIT JavaScript pushed 2026-10-29 details →
5. 5
   stable-diffusion-webui ★ 165K

   Stable Diffusion web UI

   AGPL-3.0 Python pushed 2026-03-02 details →
6. 6
   Dify ★ 160K

   Build and deploy AI agents and RAG pipelines visually

   NOASSERTION Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →
7. 7
   Open WebUI ★ 158K

   One interface for every AI model you run or connect

   NOASSERTION Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →
8. 8
   langchain ★ 149K

   The agent engineering platform.

   MIT Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →
9. 9
   ComfyUI ★ 145K

   The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.

   GPL-3.0 Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →
10. 10
    graphify ★ 141K

    Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini

    Apache-2.0 Python pushed 2026-11-02 details →

last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked

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