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Octop by Tencent Cloud

A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

General-purpose AI agents New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 14, 2026Open source · MITFree to start

Recently added on Oct 14, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.

Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#7 in General
Gid Score 47 / 100 · #49 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
Gaining stars fast
about +196 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.0.2, 3d ago
Community
10.3K GitHub stars
public signals

Usage data: latest readings Oct 20, 2026, last checked Oct 20, 06:30 UTC. Date of each number

What Octop does

It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.

Key facts

MakerTencent Cloud
First releasedJuly 2026
LicenseMIT
Main languagePython
Open issues and PRs862

Pricing

Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.

, checked Oct 14, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.

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Octop news

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  1. Data AgentGid data

    Octop passes 10K GitHub stars

  2. Release GitHub Releases

    Octop 1.0.2 released

    两台 Octop 可以连起来用:通过云端协同使用对方的专家,能聊天,也能改对方工作区里的文件; 专家可以组队。主持人负责分派任务和收尾总结,成员的回复会回到聊天,也会同步到即时通讯; 新连接器:企查查、OpenAlex、语雀、Obsidian、Agent Mail,以及钉钉命令行(设备码登录后可查通讯录、日程和文档)

  3. Release GitHub Releases

    Octop 1.0.2b9 released

    聊天侧栏置顶专家;业务流程专家;技能与技能包导出 ZIP; 记忆页可手改用户档案与强记忆,冲突转入审核; 技能、工具与团队的决策模型;通道插件;模型健康切换

  4. New on AgentGid AgentGid

    10 agents added to AgentGid

    Octop, Corsair, OpenSandbox, Trail-Code, Chat ON Steroids, holaOS, Trueforge, EverOS, dsh-TUI, FrontierAgent

What changed: recent Octop releases

13 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog

1.0.2
  • 两台 Octop 可以连起来用:通过云端协同使用对方的专家,能聊天,也能改对方工作区里的文件
  • 专家可以组队。主持人负责分派任务和收尾总结,成员的回复会回到聊天,也会同步到即时通讯
  • 新连接器:企查查、OpenAlex、语雀、Obsidian、Agent Mail,以及钉钉命令行(设备码登录后可查通讯录、日程和文档)
  • 可以用公司的 LDAP 账号登录。Telegram 机器人可以限定哪些用户能跟它说话
  • 记忆可以手改「用户档案」和「强记忆」。和已有记忆打架时先请你确认,不会悄悄覆盖;也可以备份和恢复
  • 技能和技能包可以导出成一个 ZIP,换一台机器再导入。技能包可以关掉别人的打包下载
1.0.2b9
  • 聊天侧栏置顶专家;业务流程专家;技能与技能包导出 ZIP
  • 记忆页可手改用户档案与强记忆,冲突转入审核
  • 技能、工具与团队的决策模型;通道插件;模型健康切换
  • 对外 Agent MCP 网关;ONNX 模型可离线加载
  • 无路径搜索不再打满主机内存;失败回合会正常结束
  • 云端专家结束态、未安装插件提示,以及对端模型与知识库显示
Earlier releases
1.0.2b8
  • 对话 mid-turn steering
  • 当前专家记忆备份、恢复与存储维护
  • Telegram 可限制允许的用户 ID
  • Windows 记忆备份恢复;微信旧库定时任务与重启后推送
  • 审批放通、Steer 续跑,以及历史加载中消息消失
  • 知识库上限为 0、本地索引内存、技能集缺包、WPS / 旧版 Word
1.0.2b6
  • Agent Mail 连接器(授权、邮件工具、新邮件任务)
  • LDAP 目录登录
  • 专家默认对话模式;输入栏「+」菜单;未开审批时隐藏批准入口
  • 飞牛 ARM 安装包与多架构镜像
  • octop-harness 升到 1.0.1;飞牛安装改为建账号向导
  • 会话「放通所有 / 放通这些工具」后后续 execute 仍弹审批
1.0.2b5
  • Octop↔Octop 云端桥接,经隧道使用远程专家
  • 内置助手可回答产品与使用问题
  • 可配置 Ollama 本地模型下载目录
  • 账号可自定义侧边栏;角色字段改为存储模板 id
  • 媒体预览 CSP、Langfuse 环境变量、IM 附件元数据
  • CLI 状态文件原子读写;移动端采集失败后停止 JPEG 流

Octop popularity and usage data

The GitHub repository has 10.3K stars, 6,125 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.2, published Oct 18, 2026; there were 10 stable releases in the past 30 days.

GitHub starsrunning total 10.3K

Download the raw daily series: octop.csv

Gid Score breakdown

Adoption—
Community42
Attention—
Momentum100

Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.

How fresh these numbers are

NumberLatest readingLast checked
GitHub starsOct 20, 2026Oct 20, 06:30 UTC

We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.

Octop FAQ

How much does Octop cost?

Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.

Is Octop open source?

Yes. Octop is open source, released under the MIT license.

How popular is Octop?

The GitHub repository has 10.3K stars, 6,125 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.2, published Oct 18, 2026; there were 10 stable releases in the past 30 days.

What is the latest version of Octop?

The latest stable release we track is 1.0.2, published on Oct 18, 2026.

What are the alternatives to Octop?

The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, DeepSeek Harness, Manus.

For the makers of Octop badges, corrections

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Where these numbers come from

GitHub: tencentcloud/octop. Site rank: octop.cloud on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.

Product facts and pricing were checked against: octop.cloud, github.com.