- Support compact mode for the desktop interface
- Improve startup retries when the workspace is locked
- Exclude manually typed closing brackets from block reference search
- [Support auto-closing [[ and completing block references by typing ]]](
- Support configurable image OCR tooltips
- Improve editor settings grouping
Siyuan
An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间，让人与智能体在此协作
Agent tooling for cost, context and memory
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 13, 2026Open source · AGPL-3.0Free to start
Recently added on Oct 13, 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
#43 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 33 / 100 · #43 of 65 ranked agent tools
Trend
Gaining stars
about +20 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 3.8.8, yesterday
Community
46.9K GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 20 to Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:39 UTC. Date of each number
What Siyuan does
It is free and open source (AGPL-3.0); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | SiYuan |
|---|---|
| First released | August 2020 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 6 |
Pricing
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 13, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Closest alternativeOpenShell · all alternatives
Siyuan alternatives
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| 1 |
OpenShellNVIDIA |
77 | 101K | down 14.1% | up 381.4% | 16.8K+103/day | 0.1.5yesterday | Free (OSS) | |||
| 2 |
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72 | 22.9M | up 4.3% | — | 61.7K+79/day | 1.104.5today | Free (OSS) | |||
| 3 |
NVIDIA NemoClawNVIDIA |
69 | — | — | — | 22.8K+10/day | — | Free (OSS) | |||
| 4 |
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64 | 9.5M | down 17.1% | up 17.7% | 36.1K+48/day | 4.66.0yesterday | Free + $29/mo | |||
| 5 |
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64 | 2M | down 19.8% | up 0.3% | 194K+350/day | 2.11.04mo ago | Free + $16/mo | |||
| 6 |
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60 | 3.2M | down 14.5% | up 21.9% | 14.5K+21/day | 2.11.2yesterday | Free + $150/mo | |||
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Siyuan news
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Siyuan 3.8.8 released
Support compact mode for the desktop interface; Improve startup retries when the workspace is locked; Exclude manually typed closing brackets from block reference search
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Siyuan 3.8.7 released
Support database automations; Improve super block creation and local column insertion; Improve database checkbox size and calendar interaction
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10 agents added to AgentGid
Browser Harness, Vane, TencentDB-Agent-Memory, Distilly, Codex With Chatgpt, Siyuan, Planning With Files, AionUi, PageIndex, Anatomy
What changed: recent Siyuan releases
- Support database automations
- Improve super block creation and local column insertion
- Improve database checkbox size and calendar interaction
- Support binding blocks from database panels and item menus
- Support global default fonts for dynamic icons
- Improve dynamic icon color selection
Earlier releases
- Support saving and restoring new window layouts
- Support double-clicking parent document titles to open them
- Support expanding list mind maps by level
- Improve outline expansion controls by grouping them in the level menu
- Improve cleanup of outdated installer packages
- Improve block alias input
- Improve publish service
- Support duplicating documents with sub-documents
- Support database calendar view
- Update LXGW WenKai font and clean up obsolete bundled fonts
- Support database list view
- Support Anthropic Messages API
- Improve focused list items to temporarily expand folded content
- Improve undo and redo support for database operations
- On-screen keyboard appears during document navigation on tablets
- Support high-value contextual commands in the Command Palette
- Support multiple shortcuts and context-aware shortcut conflict resolution
- Improve typography optimization for HTML blocks in blockquote task lists
- The doc tree supports using the scroll wheel to scroll the position when dragging
- The editor supports using the scroll wheel to scroll the position when dragging
- Support opening and annotating PDF assets internally on mobile
- Improve wrapping behavior for code, tag, and kbd elements
- Database text fields support block and inline elements
- Improve dragging pinned document tabs
Siyuan popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 46.9K stars, 560 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 3.8.8, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: siyuan.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption18
Community70
Attention—
Momentum51
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, 06:32 UTC |
| Website rank (Tranco) | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:39 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.
Siyuan FAQ
How much does Siyuan cost?
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Siyuan open source?
Yes. Siyuan is open source, released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
How popular is Siyuan?
The GitHub repository has 46.9K stars, 560 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 3.8.8, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Siyuan?
The latest stable release we track is 3.8.8, published on Oct 20, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Siyuan?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenShell, LiteLLM, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Langfuse.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: siyuan-note/siyuan. Site rank: b3log.org on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: b3log.org, github.com.