AI agents that help you build a chatbot or assistant for your business
9 AI agents and agent tools that help you build a chatbot or assistant for your business. Ranked by momentum this week, with setup difficulty for each.
Ranks for week 44 (Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026). Data as of Nov 2, 2026.
In short
- Gaining the most momentum this week: qq-bridge, AstrBot, and Ekko Studio.
- Easiest to start with (nothing to install, or adds to an AI app you already use): Sim.
- #1
qq-bridge
qq-bridge is a self-hosted agent app that links QQ chats to a DeepSeek agent for group and private replies.
- #2
AstrBot
AstrBot is an open source agent chatbot platform that runs AI assistants inside chat apps like QQ, Telegram, Slack, and Discord for individuals and teams.
- #3
Ekko Studio
Ekko Studio is a local-first workspace that runs multiple AI agents for chat, coding, and visual workflows for people who want to manage agents in one place.
- #4
ODS
ODS is a self-hosted AI server stack that installs local models, chat, voice, workflows, and document search on your own computer for people who want private AI at home.
- #5
MaxKB
MaxKB is an open-source platform that builds enterprise agents for customer service and internal knowledge bases.
- #6
FastGPT
FastGPT is a platform that builds AI agents and question-answering systems over your own documents for teams that want a visual setup.
- #7
Sim
Sim is a workspace that lets you build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and workflows without much code.
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WAHA
WAHA is a self-hosted WhatsApp HTTP API that lets software send and receive WhatsApp messages for businesses and developers.
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PipesHub
PipesHub is an open-source platform that connects a company's Slack, Drive, GitHub and other business systems to AI agents, with each person's permissions respected, for teams that want self-hosted company search.