- Import .science packages straight from your browser. A download page can now hand a research package to the desktop app in one click — the app receives and validates it automatically, then you…
- Updates you can follow — and trust, especially on Windows. Downloading, readiness and installation preparation now stay in one dialog with independently scrollable release notes, instead of…
- Security fixes for MCP OAuth credential handling. Stored OAuth credentials are now bound to the authorization server they were issued for before use, and refreshed third-party security patches are…
- Sessions waiting on you always show as waiting. A session paused for your approval or answer no longer flashes back to Running — across Home, the sidebar, workspace actions and the conversation…
- The PDC connector retrieves public case-level clinical metadata — demographics, diagnoses, tumor information and sample references — for the latest study version or a specific one. (#3614)
- Skill selection can now take the images attached to your current message into account, not just the text. (#3595)
Open Science by AIPOCH
The open-source AI research workbench for scientific research and agent workflows. Local-first, model-agnostic desktop app with extensible skills, MCP tools and connectors, Python/R execution and traceable artifacts for reproducible research on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Recently added on Oct 15, 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
#11 in Research
Gid Score 24 / 100 · #184 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
Gaining stars fast
about +70 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.0.1, yesterday
Community
5,315 GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 20 to Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:33 UTC. Date of each number
What Open Science does
It is free and open source (Apache-2.0); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | AIPOCH |
|---|---|
| First released | July 2026 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 54 |
Pricing
Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 15, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Closest alternativeConsensus · all alternatives
Open Science alternatives
Best Open Science alternatives compared · All AI research agents
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 |
ConsensusConsensus |
43 | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $20/mo | |||
| 69 |
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43 | — | — | — | 42.5K+16/day | 3.0.010mo ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 83 |
Autoresearchkarpathy |
40 | — | — | — | 98.3K+65/day | — | — | |||
| 87 |
DexterVirat Singh |
40 | — | — | — | 27.7K+8/day | 1.1.028d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 108 |
ElicitElicit |
36 | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $49/mo | |||
| 113 |
SciSpace AgentPubGenius Inc. |
36 | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $20/mo | |||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Ratings from people who use Open Science
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Open Science news
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Open Science 1.0.1 released
Import .science packages straight from your browser. A download page can now hand a research package to the desktop app in one click — the app receives and validates it automatically, then you…; Updates you can follow — and trust, especially on Windows…
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10 agents added to AgentGid
Pyod, Rakazo, OpenExecutive, Skill Recorder, Fuxi, Open Science, Casdoor, Tutti, Zvec Grep, Financial-API
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Open Science 1.0.0 released
Projects and conversations: organize research in projects and sessions, explore message branches and side chats, fork a session to continue another research path, and follow plans, clarification…; Models and agents: choose Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, or…
What changed: recent Open Science releases
62 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Projects and conversations: organize research in projects and sessions, explore message branches and side chats, fork a session to continue another research path, and follow plans, clarification…
- Models and agents: choose Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, or CodeBuddy; connect compatible cloud providers, custom endpoints, or supported Claude/Codex subscription logins. Configure models and…
- Skills, specialists, and connectors: install and update research skills and specialists from their marketplaces, create or import your own, delegate work to specialists, and access scientific…
- Python, R, and compute: run code in persistent Notebook environments, inspect variables and execution history, manage packages, and export .ipynb files. Run background work locally or use…
- Literature and PDFs: manage references, collections, tags, notes, and duplicates; find open-access full text; screen papers against research criteria; read and annotate PDFs and extract figures…
- Files and artifacts: preview scientific tables, sequences, molecular structures, PDFs, Office documents, images, and code. Edit supported text formats and retain immutable artifact versions with…
Earlier releases
- Recovers from runtime trouble on its own. Startup repairs backend, settings and network failures without a reinstall; runtime failures are isolated so the app keeps responding; and a runtime…
- Large session and notebook snapshots transfer reliably, so restoring or moving heavy workspaces no longer stalls or fails partway. (#3533)
- The Linux command line now also ships as standalone .deb and .rpm packages alongside the existing archives. (#3491)
- Help Center links and search in Settings are localized together with the rest of the interface. (#3489)
- The web surface stays responsive under heavy agent activity — event bursts are bounded with a shared send queue, and runtime event batches are capped by encoded size. (#3530, #3524)
- Redirected backend logs are compacted, keeping diagnostic folders small. (#3535)
- PDF fidelity restored. Structure extraction keeps complete figures with their captions and legends, reconstructs ruled tables that sit next to formulas without rejecting them, and preserves native…
- A quieter, more robust Windows experience. The desktop CLI works from non-ASCII installation paths, PDF translation handles Windows drive paths, and Notebook kernels and environment captures no…
- Desktop installers and the standalone runtime shed unused payloads — duplicate bundled dependencies, unused model-runtime and tokenizer assets, and platform libraries the app never loads —…
- A spaced panel reference in running prose no longer splits a figure into separate raster and vector crops, and detector padding below a table's closing rule no longer causes the whole table to be…
- Native PDF extraction keeps caption and graphics ownership with the right element, recovers independently bounded table records with grouped headers and row groups, and retains cell source…
- The desktop CLI no longer misreads its launcher under legacy code pages when the installation path contains Chinese characters, and preserves the caller's code page and exit code
- A standalone Node backend. The shared services behind the desktop, web, CLI and Notebook now run in an ordinary Node process — the command line and headless mode no longer need a windowless…
- Connector reach. A new built-in ENCORI connector brings miRNA–target and RNA–RNA interaction evidence, ChEMBL adds assay details and bioactivity pagination, and ClinVar adds individual submission…
- Fidelity for scientific PDFs. PDF translation preserves native reading order, nested ActualText labels verify correctly, and structure extraction keeps source-owned figures and complete table…
- Calmer Notebook approvals and capture. Ready default runtimes no longer double-prompt, mixed environments report accurately, and package build metadata stays visible. (#3380, #3398, #3385)
- Standalone Node backend for shared services — open-science start runs without Electron, and the desktop app connects as a native client (#3358)
- ENCORI connector with ten tools for miRNA targets, RNA–RNA interactions, regulatory evidence, reference tables and bulk datasets (#3376)
- Reviewable Notebook execution. Every Notebook run is screened for destructive or risky code before it executes; risky runs surface a focused review card with source-line context and a durable…
- Resumable shared PDF translation. Translate a full PDF with paragraph-level checkpoints, switch between original, translation, and side-by-side compare reading modes, and resume across sessions —…
- Connector reach. A new PDC connector brings cancer proteomics study, biospecimen and file discovery, and the Genomes connector gains population-specific linkage-disequilibrium queries. (#3335, #3337)
- Claude Haiku 5.5. The bundled Anthropic catalog adds Claude Haiku 5.5 with its 1M-token context window. (#3333)
- Reviewable Notebook execution with per-run risk analysis and durable review receipts (#3336)
- Resumable full-document PDF translation with original/translation/compare reading modes (#3334)
Open Science popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 5,315 stars, 1,284 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.1, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 15 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 6 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: open-science.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community30
Attention3
Momentum66
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 UTC |
| Hacker News mentions | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 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.
Open Science FAQ
How much does Open Science cost?
Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Open Science open source?
Yes. Open Science is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.
How popular is Open Science?
The GitHub repository has 5,315 stars, 1,284 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.1, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 15 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 6 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Open Science?
The latest stable release we track is 1.0.1, published on Oct 20, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Open Science?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are Consensus, BettaFish, Autoresearch, Dexter.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: aipoch/open-science. Site rank: aipoch.com on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: aipoch.com, github.com.