GPT Researcher

🖼️ Tool Name:
GPT Researcher

🔖 Tool Category:
Science & Research — it falls under autonomous research tools that automate multi-source data collection, summarization, and reporting.

✏️ What does this tool offer?
GPT Researcher is an autonomous agent designed to perform in-depth online research on any topic. By accepting a user-defined research question, it performs a multi-step process: generating sub-questions, performing web searches, extracting and filtering content, summarizing findings, and finally producing a coherent research report in multiple exportable formats. It enables users to automate the research process similar to how a human researcher would.

⭐ What does the tool actually deliver based on user experience?
• Automatically generates structured research reports from scratch
• Gathers and synthesizes information from multiple web sources
• Detects and minimizes bias using a "fact repetition" filter
• Produces exportable documents (PDF, Markdown, DOCX, etc.)
• Offers an easy-to-use interface for both technical and non-technical users
• Supports language model integration (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Ollama)
• Great for knowledge workers, analysts, students, and professionals

🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes — the entire research workflow is automated:
• Question analysis and sub-question generation
• Web crawling and document extraction
• Context filtering and summarization
• Report synthesis and formatting
• Optional self-hosting and background execution

💰 Pricing Model:
Open-source — Free

🆓 Free Plan Details:
• 100% free and open-source under the MIT license
• No API key required to start (can use local LLMs)
• Fully customizable and self-hostable
• Works offline when using local models (e.g., GPT4All, Ollama)

💳 Paid Plan Details:
• None — no commercial or subscription plans available

🧭 Access Method:
• Install via GitHub or Docker
• Run locally or on a private server
• Compatible with APIs like OpenAI, Claude, or local LLMs
• Offers a simple web interface or command-line control

🔗 Experience Link:

https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher