GPT Researcher Review 2026: Open-Source Deep Research Agent
Ever needed a thorough research brief on a topic — competitive analysis, literature review, tech stack comparison — and ended up chain-opening 30 browser tabs, copy-pasting scraps into a doc that never gets written? Yeah, me too. That’s exactly the pain GPT Researcher solves. GPT Researcher is an open-source autonomous research agent that crawls multiple sources, aggregates findings, and generates structured reports with citations — all without human babysitting. 15K GitHub stars, active development, MIT licensed. And the kicker? You can run it on a $6/mo VPS instead of paying $200/mo for OpenAI Deep Research. ...