GPT Researcher
GPT Researcher is an agent that runs deep web and local document research and writes cited reports for people who need factual summaries.
What it is good for
- Writing detailed research reports with citations from many web sources
- Researching a topic across web pages and local documents
- Summarizing long research into a report with sources
- Adding deep research to Claude through a skill
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude, Google Gemini, Tavily, LangSmith, Docker, OpenAI
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 30,427
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is GPT Researcher free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use GPT Researcher?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does GPT Researcher work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude, Google Gemini, Tavily, LangSmith, Docker, and OpenAI.
- What is GPT Researcher good for?
- Writing detailed research reports with citations from many web sources, researching a topic across web pages and local documents, summarizing long research into a report with sources, and adding deep research to Claude through a skill.
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