AgenticSeek FAQ: the open-source alternative for a team
Direct answers on whether AgenticSeek is free, offline or production-ready, and how the open-source alternative Kortix runs the same work for a whole team.
Run Kortix on your own server
kortix self-host init --domain kortix.example.com --admin-email you@example.comkortix self-host startkortix self-host doctorThe same CLI installs, starts and checks a full Kortix stack on a server you control, so a team can keep its agents and its review flow in-house.
AgenticSeek, and what a team-ready alternative looks like
AgenticSeek is a local, single-machine AI agent. Its own README calls it a "100% local alternative to Manus AI" that browses the web, writes code and plans tasks on your hardware (AgenticSeek on GitHub). You run it from a git clone with Docker and Python 3.10, point it at a local model through Ollama, LM Studio or an OpenAI-compatible server, and give it a SearxNG service for search. There is no hosted service behind it: the maintainers describe AgenticSeek as a side-project with "zero roadmap and zero funding".
What it costs to run depends on the model, not a subscription. The README sizes local models by video memory: about 8 GB of VRAM for a 7B model, which it marks "not recommended"; 12 GB for 14B; and 24 GB or more for 32B. The README markets the setup as running "for the sole cost of electricity", which holds when your machine can load the model. If you would rather not buy a GPU, its config also points at cloud API providers that bill you per token.
AgenticSeek's documentation describes one person on one machine: a config.ini, a single work directory, and sessions saved and recalled on your computer, with no accounts, roles or shared state. That is a reasonable shape for a solo developer. For a team that needs each person to reach the same agents with their own access and a reviewed history of what changed, it is a hard edge.
Kortix is built for that team. It is the open-source AI Operating System: your agents, skills, company memory and every connector live in one git repo you own, and each session runs on its own cloud computer (Kortix). Work lands through a change request a person approves, and people reach the same agents from the web app, Slack or Microsoft Teams. It runs on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network (Kortix on GitHub).
AgenticSeek questions, answered
The facts a team weighs, from AgenticSeek's own docs and from Kortix.
Is AgenticSeek free?
AgenticSeek has no subscription. It is an open-source project you run yourself, so your cost is the machine and the electricity to run it, and its README lists cloud API keys as optional extras you would pay a provider for.
Does AgenticSeek run fully offline?
Yes for the models: AgenticSeek's README says Ollama, LM Studio and a self-hosted server run the language, speech-to-text and text-to-speech models on your own machine. Its web-browsing jobs still call a SearxNG search service, so a task that reads the web needs a network.
Do I need a GPU to run AgenticSeek?
For local models, yes. Its README's hardware table starts at 8 GB of VRAM for a 7B model and recommends 12 GB for 14B or 24 GB and up for 32B. Pointing its config at a cloud API provider removes the GPU requirement.
Is AgenticSeek ready for production?
Its README calls AgenticSeek an early prototype: agent routing "might not always allocate the right agent", form filling is experimental, and the project has "zero roadmap and zero funding". Treat it as a developer's local tool rather than something a team can govern.
Can several people share one AgenticSeek install?
The docs describe a single-machine setup: one config.ini, one work directory, and saved sessions on your computer, with no accounts, roles or per-person access. Teammates cannot each get their own governed access to the same install.
Which open-source AgenticSeek alternative fits a team?
Kortix. Its agents, skills, memory and connectors live in one git repo you own, and it adds per-resource permissions for people and agents, roles, groups, and an audit trail (Kortix).
Does Kortix run locally or self-hosted?
Yes. Kortix's self-hosting CLI installs the full stack as one Docker Compose project on a Linux server you control, and self-host is free. Sessions still run on a cloud sandbox provider, and the instance must be reachable from the internet so those sandboxes can call back, so plan a public server rather than an offline laptop.
Is Kortix open source?
Yes. Kortix's own line is "Open source. Read it, fork it, audit it." You can read the code, fork it, and self-host it for free (Kortix on GitHub).
Run your team's agents from one repo you own.
Open source, any model with your keys, self-hosted or on Kortix Cloud.