# OpenAI Dots Alternative

> An independent comparison of OpenAI Dots and the open-source alternatives that give an always-on agent its own machine, recommending Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System.

Every page has a markdown twin (linked below) and the whole site is in [llms-full.txt](https://openaidotsalternative.com/llms-full.txt).

## Pages

- [Home](https://openaidotsalternative.com/index.md): An OpenAI Dots alternative you can host: Kortix is open source, each agent gets its own cloud computer, and the rules live in a repo you own.
- [What Dots is](https://openaidotsalternative.com/what-are-openai-dots.md): OpenAI Dots are always-on agents on a cloud computer OpenAI runs: what a dot does, and how the open-source way to run that work keeps the machine.
- [Cost](https://openaidotsalternative.com/openai-dots-cost.md): A dot has no published unit price: it comes with a ChatGPT plan. What a dot costs, and what open source charges for the same work.
- [Open source](https://openaidotsalternative.com/open-source-openai-dots.md): Open-source Dots projects split into a UI template, a wrapper and a runtime. Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System that ships the runtime.
- [vs Kortix](https://openaidotsalternative.com/openai-dots-vs-kortix.md): Dots live inside an OpenAI plan. Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System that keeps the machine and the rules in your repo.
- [Self-hosting](https://openaidotsalternative.com/self-hosted-always-on-agent.md): What self-hosting an open-source AI agent takes: the documented install, the sandbox that stays outside your server, and the upkeep it adds.
- [For teams](https://openaidotsalternative.com/openai-dots-for-teams.md): OpenAI dots give a team agent its own identity and credentials; Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System, keeps those grants in a diffable file.

## Kortix

- [Kortix](https://kortix.com): The open-source AI Operating System.
- [Kortix docs](https://kortix.com/docs): installing, self-hosting and configuring Kortix.
- [Source](https://github.com/kortix-ai/suna): the open-source repository.