kortix-ai/suna

**The open-source AI Operating System**
**The leading open-source alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work.**
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Agents that deliver finished work — reports, decks, code, replies, deployed changes — are now a
product category. Every version of it runs inside a model lab, on that lab's model, with your
company's brain on their side of the wall.
**Kortix is the one you own.** It's an open-source **AI Operating System**: your agents, the
skills they share, your company memory, and every connector live in one git repo — versioned,
diffable, and shared by the whole company. The agents work on real **cloud computers** — an
isolated sandbox per session, on its own branch — and land what they produce through a **change
request** a human approves.
Any model, your own API keys, your own infrastructure or our managed cloud.
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Kortix is right for you if
- ✅ You want an **open-source, self-hosted alternative to Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work** for your whole team → details
- ✅ You want **AI agents in Slack or Microsoft Teams** that use your tools and reply in the thread → details
- ✅ You want **background coding agents in the cloud**: a sandbox and a branch per task, and a change request you review → details
- ✅ You want to **replace Zapier-style automations with AI agents** that run on a schedule or a webhook → details
- ✅ You want an **"AI employee"** that does the work and waits for a person's approval before it acts → details
- ✅ Your security team needs **governed agents**: per-tool rules, approval gates, an audit trail, SAML SSO, your own VPC → details
- ✅ You want an **AI Operating System to run a company with agents**: every agent, skill, memory file and connector in one git repo → details
Kortix is probably **not** the right fit if you want a visual flowchart of fixed steps (a workflow
builder such as n8n does that well), or only a chat window over your documents (Onyx, Open WebUI or
LibreChat).
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How it compares
| | Claude Cowork | ChatGPT Work | **Kortix** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Source** | Closed | Closed | **Open source — read it, fork it, audit it** |
| **Models** | Anthropic only | GPT-5.6 only | **Any provider, your own API keys** |
| **Where it runs** | Anthropic's cloud, or Bedrock / Google Cloud / Microsoft Foundry — no self-host | OpenAI's cloud, no self-host | **Our cloud, your VPC, or your own on-prem network** |
| **Your configuration** | In their product | In their product | **Files in a git repo you own** |
| **Access** | Paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) | Paid plans, usage-metered | **Self-host free · managed cloud from $20/mo in credits, unlimited members** |
Competitor rows reflect publicly documented behavior as of July 2026.
Kortix and other open-source tools
| If you are looking at… | Pick it when | Pick Kortix when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **n8n** (workflow automation) | The job is a fixed flowchart: the same steps, in the same order, every time. | The job is open-ended work an agent does on its own computer (research, a report, a fix), with the configuration in git and a person approving what it changes. |
| **OpenHands** (coding agents) | You want a coding-agent control center for an engineering team. | Coding is one of many jobs: the same agents also work in Slack, on schedules and across 3,000+ apps, and every session is a sandbox on its own branch. |
| **Paperclip** (agent orchestration) | You already run agents such as Claude Code or Codex and want an org chart, budgets and a task board on top of them. | You want the platform to run the agents too: each session on its own cloud computer, from one repo that holds the agents, skills, memory and connectors. |
| **Onyx, Open WebUI, LibreChat** (chat and search) | You want a chat window or search over company documents. | You want agents that return finished work and take real actions in your tools, not only answers. |