- Build: 0.12.6 Commit: fa700c113e Built at: 2026-09-29 19:21:38 UTC
Vellum by Vellum
Open-source personal AI assistant with long-term memory, proactive check-ins and sandboxed tool use that takes actions across your apps. Runs on Vellum Cloud or self-hosted, reachable from macOS/Windows apps, web, iOS, voice, email, Telegram and Slack, and extensible with plugins and custom skills.
General-purpose AI agents
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 8, 2026Personal AI assistantOpen source · MITFree to start
Price
Free + $30/mo
free tier available
Popularity
#14 in General
Gid Score 22 / 100 · #166 of 271 overall
Trend
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about +4 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 0.12.6, 9d ago
Community
1,395 GitHub stars
public signals
What Vellum does
Key facts
| Maker | Vellum |
|---|---|
| Type | Personal AI assistant |
| License | MIT |
| Interfaces | Desktop app, Web app, CLI, Telegram, Mobile app |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 176 |
Pricing
Free to start and free to self-host (no platform fee); Vellum Cloud plans Mighty $30/mo, Super $100/mo and Ultra $200/mo (Super/Ultra plus $10/mo platform fee), and custom plans.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 8, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Where you use itDesktop app, Web app, CLI, Telegram, Mobile app
- Closest alternativeOpenClaw · all alternatives
Get started with Vellum
Setup instructions are in the official documentation.
Vellum alternatives
Best Vellum alternatives compared · All general-purpose AI agents
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |
OpenClawOpenClaw Foundation (nonprofit); created by Peter Steinberger |
80 | 4.8M | up 40.6% | up 27.0% | — | 392K+165/day | 2026.9.85d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 14 |
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62 | 402K | down 22.4% | — | — | 245K+656/day | — | Free | ||
| 29 |
Hermes AgentNous Research |
55 | 47.4K | up 18.9% | down 36.5% | — | 252K+266/day | 2026.9.2414d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 39 |
ManusButterfly Effect Pte. Ltd. (Manus AI), Singapore |
52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $20/mo | ||
| 64 |
GensparkGenspark Inc. (MainFunc) |
45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $24.99/mo | ||
| 86 |
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40 | 13.9K | up 15.3% | up 32.1% | — | 48.8K+27/day | 0.3.523d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Vellum news
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13 agents added to AgentGid
CodeGPT, Traycer, Command Code, Lemonade, Vellum, Agent Zero, ZCode, openJiuwen, Do Browser, PostQode, Ito, Mira and 1 more
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Vellum 0.12.6 released
Build: 0.12.6 Commit: fa700c113e Built at: 2026-09-29 19:21:38 UTC
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Vellum 0.12.5 released
Build: 0.12.5 Commit: 0b7013321b Built at: 2026-09-25 06:44:36 UTC
What changed: recent Vellum releases
23 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Build: 0.12.5 Commit: 0b7013321b Built at: 2026-09-25 06:44:36 UTC
- Build: 0.12.4 Commit: 5cfeff4780 Built at: 2026-09-23 01:49:56 UTC
- Your assistant can now create documents straight from the conversation or the Library, Telegram plays nicely with groups, and computer-use screenshots stick around in chat. Plus TinyFish search,…
- Create documents without leaving the chat. Your assistant can now mint brand-new documents, and you can start one from the conversation menu or straight from the Library. The blank page problem…
- TinyFish search and fetch are built in. Two new providers bring TinyFish search and page fetching to your assistant's toolkit, one more way to reach the live web.
- Telegram groups, officially. The assistant now joins group and supergroup conversations when messages address it directly, setup copy explains how addressing works, and photos over Telegram's 10…
- Computer-use screenshots stay in the conversation. Screenshots your assistant takes during computer use are now preserved and displayed in chat, so you can review the whole run without replaying it.
- Memory you can actually read. Recall and remember now report structured results, and the tool drawer renders them as readable views instead of JSON soup. Memory also holds onto its stable prefix…
- Live voice now runs the call end to end, computer use reports what it sees at every step, and phone callers can interrupt whenever they like. Plus read-aloud everywhere, a dockable call bar, and a…
- Ask out loud to end or mute the call. During a live voice session you can now say things like "end the call" or "mute for a second" and your assistant just does it, no button hunting required. And…
- "Take a look" turns on your camera or screen share. Ask your assistant to look at something mid-call and it switches on screen share or the camera itself, so showing beats describing.
- Voice turns can drive the computer. Desktop voice conversations can now start with computer use already active, so "find that invoice and open it" works without touching the keyboard.
- Phone callers can interrupt a thinking turn. Sustained-speech barge-in now guards phone calls too, so a caller can jump in with "actually, wait" while the assistant is mid-thought and be heard.
- The call bar docks anywhere and holds everything. The companion call bar now snaps to any edge of your display, picks the microphone and the voice right from the bar, shows a call's background…
- A small patch release with one focused fix for setups where the assistant hands work to child processes.
- What's fixed Credentials now survive child-process handoffs. Some tools run their work through sanitized child processes, and those processes were coming up without the HTTP credentials they…
Vellum popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 1,395 stars, 200 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.12.6, published Sep 29, 2026; there were 8 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: vellum.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption27
Community6
Attention0
Momentum58
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Vellum FAQ
How much does Vellum cost?
Free to start and free to self-host (no platform fee); Vellum Cloud plans Mighty $30/mo, Super $100/mo and Ultra $200/mo (Super/Ultra plus $10/mo platform fee), and custom plans.
Is Vellum open source?
Yes. Vellum is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Vellum?
The GitHub repository has 1,395 stars, 200 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.12.6, published Sep 29, 2026; there were 8 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Vellum?
The latest stable release we track is 0.12.6, published on Sep 29, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Vellum?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenClaw, DeepSeek Harness, Hermes Agent, Manus.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. Site rank: vellum.ai on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: vellum.ai, github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com.