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Eigent is an Apache-2.0, Electron-based desktop app for building and running AI agent workforces, specialized worker agents executing tasks in parallel on the CAMEL-AI framework, with a large built-in MCP integration catalog, browser and terminal toolkits, human-in-the-loop escalation, and automations, positioned as the free and local alternative to Claude Cowork.

Eigent is the only Cowork-style desktop in this category with a permissive license and a real multi-agent architecture, and its history includes a corrected benchmark claim that should calibrate how much of the pitch you take on faith.

What it is
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A TypeScript Electron frontend over a Python FastAPI backend, organized as Space, Session, Task, with two modes: a single-agent harness and a multi-agent Workforce where specialized workers execute in parallel (built on the founder’s CAMEL-AI framework). Tools include an extensive MCP integration catalog, a skills system, browser and terminal toolkits, and human-in-the-loop escalation; automations cover scheduled, event, and app triggers. Model-agnostic: BYOK cloud APIs, Eigent Cloud credits, or local models via Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, and SGLang; full self-hosting with a local backend is documented. macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux. By Eigent AI (EIGENT UK LTD), founded by Guohao Li, who also founded CAMEL-AI; funding undisclosed.

Status
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Active and maturing: 15,523 stars and 1,855 forks as of 2026-10-14, created 2025-07-29, 257 open issues with the last push on 2026-11-10 as of 2026-11-11, v1.0.7 (2026-10-30) the latest release.

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The smallest community of the Cowork trio, and the launch thread matters: the “ranked top 1 on GAIA benchmark” claim referred to the predecessor project OWL, the founder acknowledged it, and 1-karma accounts posted praise.

Strengths
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  • Apache-2.0 with a documented full self-hosting path, cleaner than the custom licenses around it.
  • The CAMEL-based Workforce is a genuine multi-agent architecture, not a single harness with a spinner.
  • Model and deployment freedom: BYOK, an extensive MCP tool catalog, local inference, no subscription required to use it.
  • Cross-platform with an enterprise tier already offered.

Cautions
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  • The marketing-claim history above, plus self-reported revenue figures and undisclosed funding.
  • “Local and free” needs qualification: the quick-start path connects to Eigent cloud and requires an account; fully local is a separate, more involved setup.
  • Heavy stack (Electron plus Python) and a smaller community than its direct rivals.
  • Teams tier still marked coming soon.

Pricing
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Free: BYOK and local models; the notice that free credits for new accounts were temporarily paused left the pricing page by 2026-11-11, and the Free card no longer states the 1,000 registration credits in the page text. Plus $19.99/month (2,000 task credits) and Pro $99.99/month (10,000 credits), each after a 7-day free trial shown on the pricing page, with annual billing options now shown (Plus $199.90/year, Pro $999.90/year, both marked 2 months free), Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom with local deployment. Ten percent of subscriptions is pledged to CAMEL-AI.org.

Price history
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Date Plan Change Source
2026-09 Plus, Pro Baseline: Free (BYOK, 1,000 registration credits), Plus $19.99/mo (2,000 task credits), Pro $99.99/mo (10,000 credits), Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom. eigent.ai/pricing
2026-10-16 Plus, Pro Annual billing options appeared on the pricing page (Plus $199.90/year, Pro $999.90/year, both marked 2 months free); the monthly prices, the 7-day trial, and the Teams-coming-soon state unchanged. eigent.ai/pricing
2026-10-25 Free Free registration credits temporarily paused for new accounts while the team addresses recent misuse; the paid tiers, trials, and annual options confirmed unchanged in the page source. eigent.ai/pricing
2026-11-11 Free The free-credits-paused notice left the pricing page, and the Free card no longer states the 1,000 registration credits in the page text; the paid tiers (Plus $19.99, Pro $99.99), the 7-day trials, the annual options, and the Teams-coming-soon state confirmed unchanged. eigent.ai/pricing

Compared to
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  • OpenWork: the larger, OpenCode-based Cowork alternative with an MCP portability story; choose Eigent for true multi-agent workforces and the permissive license, OpenWork for ecosystem and skills portability.
  • OpenClaw: the messaging-first always-on assistant; choose OpenClaw for phone-driven personal assistance, Eigent for desktop-supervised work on files and tasks.
  • Claude Cowork: polished, sandboxed, subscription-tied, and as of 2026-09-16 merging into Claude chat itself, so the baseline is now Claude the app (Anthropic’s help center now bills the product as “Claude Cowork is now just Claude”, rolling out gradually); choose it for turnkey managed assistance, Eigent for model freedom, local deployment, and parallel agent teams.

Bottom line
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Recommended for engineers who want to visually run parallel specialist agents on their own hardware under a permissive license. Not for buyers who need vendor accountability history, and not for the quick-start path if local-only is the requirement, because that path phones home.

Changes
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  • 2026-08-30 - Created as the assistant-runtimes note on the CAMEL workforce desktop, with the unverified built-in-tools count dropped.
  • 2026-09-07 - Cowork reference moved to claude.com/product/cowork.
  • 2026-09-18 - Recorded Claude Cowork merging into Claude chat itself (announced 2026-09-16), refreshing the comparison baseline and adoption numbers.
  • 2026-09-20 - Added the Price history section tracking price changes in a table, per the new owner rule.
  • 2026-09-27 - Recorded v1.0.5 (released 2026-09-25), the first release since v1.0.4, with refreshed adoption numbers.
  • 2026-10-07 - Added the eigent-ai/eigent star history chart to the Status section.
  • 2026-10-07 - Recorded Anthropic’s rename of Claude Cowork to just Claude in the comparison baseline, with refreshed adoption numbers and the pricing tiers re-checked unchanged.
  • 2026-10-16 - Rotation re-verification: recorded v1.0.6 (2026-10-16) as the latest release and the annual billing options on the pricing page (Price history row), with every cited URL re-fetched live and the monthly tiers unchanged.
  • 2026-10-21 - Rotation re-verification: every cited URL re-fetched live (repo and README, the pricing page, the about page, the launch thread, both Claude Cowork pages), v1.0.6 confirmed still the latest release, the tiers (Free BYOK, Plus $19.99, Pro $99.99, Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom) and annual options unchanged, and the GAIA-correction thread and the Claude-just-Claude comparison baseline intact.
  • 2026-10-25 - Recorded the pricing page’s notice that free registration credits are temporarily paused for new accounts during a misuse cleanup (Price history row), with the paid tiers confirmed unchanged in the page source and refreshed adoption numbers.
  • 2026-10-31 - Rotation re-verification: every cited URL re-fetched live (repo and README, the pricing page, the about page, the launch thread, both Claude Cowork pages), recorded v1.0.7 (2026-10-30) as the latest release, and the free-credits-paused notice, the tiers, the GAIA-correction thread, and the Claude-just-Claude comparison baseline all intact.
  • 2026-11-07 - Rotation re-verification: every cited URL re-fetched live (repo and releases APIs, the README, the pricing page, the about page, the launch thread via Algolia, both Claude Cowork pages), v1.0.7 (2026-10-30) confirmed still the latest release, the tiers (Free BYOK, Plus $19.99, Pro $99.99, Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom), the annual options (the Monthly/Yearly toggle still marked 2 months free), and the free-credits-paused notice all unchanged, with refreshed adoption numbers.
  • 2026-11-11 - Recorded the pricing page’s free-credits-paused notice leaving the page and the Free card no longer stating the 1,000 registration credits in the page text (Price history row), with the paid tiers, trials, annual options, and Teams-coming-soon state unchanged in the same fetch, and refreshed adoption numbers.

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