GPT Researcher

GPT Researcher is an open-source LLM agent designed for deep, structured research on any topic using web and local sources. It produces detailed reports with citations by running parallel research agents, scraping relevant sources, filtering content, and synthesizing findings. Supports local document research, customizable report formats, and multiple LLM backends including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama.

GPT Researcher is currently grouped under Vision / Multimodal, which makes it easier to evaluate through workflow fit instead of isolated features alone. Based on the available data, it leans most heavily toward Parallel research agents scraping and synthesizing multiple web sources simultaneously and Automating deep research reports on any topic with sourced citations. The listed license is Apache-2.0, which is useful when adoption constraints matter. It also shows measurable community traction with 27.7k GitHub stars.