Open source alternatives to Claude Managed Agents

By GitHub stars it is Agno, with 43,181 stars and a commit on 13 Nov. Choose Agno when you want agents served as APIs and MCP servers from your own cloud, with any model provider rather than one. Next come NemoClaw (23,019 stars) and eve (5,889 stars).

Yes. The code of all 4 is public under Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Claude Managed Agents for. Choose eve when your TypeScript team wants to build durable backend agents with Vercel's Apache-licensed framework and run them on your own infrastructure. Choose NemoClaw when you want a free sandbox that controls the credentials and network access of agents you run yourself.

1 of the 4: Agno. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

All 4 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Agno, NemoClaw, eve and Omnara. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

Apache 2.0 (4). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely.

The hosting. Claude Managed Agents's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.