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GPT Researcher

Open-source autonomous research agent that searches multiple sources and writes cited reports.

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Pricing

GPT Researcher is free and open source under the MIT License; provider and retriever costs are separate.

Overview

GPT Researcher is an open-source autonomous research agent for multi-source questions. It plans subtopics, runs parallel searches, crawls and validates sources, builds research context, and writes reports with inline citations. It can run as a Python package, self-hosted service, or MCP server and supports multiple language models and retrieval providers.

Key features

  • Planner-driven deep research
  • Parallel multi-source search
  • Source crawling and validation
  • Quick search mode
  • Markdown, PDF, DOCX, JSON, and text output
  • Inline citations and source lists
  • MCP server
  • Streaming through WebSocket and SSE

Use cases

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Last updated 2026-09-16