OpenMontage by OpenMontage, Inc.

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Open-source agentic video production system that plans, generates and assembles videos locally using your own AI agent and provider accounts

Video assembly and rendering Open source

Is OpenMontage free for commercial use? Yes with conditions →

Website License

Price

Free

Open-source code (AGPLv3) runs locally; the Studio...

Commercial use

With conditions

GNU AGPL v3 (code); Terms of Service for Studio and library music

Credit the author

Per item

Credit depends on the item

Agent access

Download only

OpenMontage popularity

Gid Score

55 /100

same scale as developer tools

GitHub stars

70.8K

9,150 forks · calesthio/openmontage

Downloads

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PyPI, last 7 days, None

Downloads from the package registry, stars and forks from GitHub, checked Oct 22, 2026. How the Gid Score is calculated.

Rules for your agent

- OpenMontage (Video assembly and rendering). Open-source agentic video production system that plans, generates and assembles videos locally using your own AI agent and provider accounts. Price: free; commercial use with conditions; credit depends on the item; ship inside your app with conditions.
  Connect: download from https://www.openmontage.video/ (no API).
  Rule: Code is AGPLv3: if you modify it and offer it on a network server, provide the modified source to its users.
  Rule: Library tracks marked CC-BY need a credit; keep the auto-generated credit in the video or its description.
  Rule: Do not sell, share or distribute a library track on its own or inside a music collection.
  Rule: Check the license of any third-party library or stock asset, since those stay under their own licenses.
  License: https://github.com/calesthio/openmontage/blob/HEAD/LICENSE (checked 2026-10-21; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/openmontage/)

Paste it into your prompt or AGENTS.md. It is built from the license and API terms below.

License

License	GNU AGPL v3 (code); Terms of Service for Studio and library music
Commercial use	Commercial use with conditions “we give you a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to use it in productions you make with the Services, including commercial ones” openmontage.video/terms.html
Credit	Credit depends on the item “CC-BY, AUTO-CREDITED” openmontage.video
Inside your app or game	Ship inside your app with conditions “As between you and OpenMontage, you own your inputs and outputs, and we assign to you any rights we have in outputs.” openmontage.video/terms.html
AI training	Not stated
Bots and bulk downloads	Not stated
Rules	Code is AGPLv3: if you modify it and offer it on a network server, provide the modified source to its users. Library tracks marked CC-BY need a credit; keep the auto-generated credit in the video or its description. Do not sell, share or distribute a library track on its own or inside a music collection. Check the license of any third-party library or stock asset, since those stay under their own licenses.

Connect it to an agent

MCP server	None found
API	No public API: download by hand
GitHub	calesthio/openmontage

Pricing

Free	Open-source code (AGPLv3) runs locally; the Studio desktop app is in private alpha with a waitlist
Paid from	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	Added automatically: 70,579 GitHub stars. License read from the official pages.

Sources

Read on Oct 21, 2026: openmontage.video, openmontage.video/terms.html, openmontage.video/terms, github.com/calesthio/openmontage/blob/HEAD/LICENSE, github.com/calesthio/openmontage.

Not legal advice. Check the license page before you ship.

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