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AgenticOS vs ChatGPT Enterprise

Your team’s AI.
One place to work.

Bring agents, company knowledge and the work they produce into a shared workspace your team operates.

See it with your team Explore the product

Apache-2.0 · self-hosted · built on Pydantic AI

AgenticOSYour company workspace
The Approvals tab of the Activity page, with approved, rejected and expired example requests and their decision history.
Real AgenticOS interface · illustrative demo data

Work together

People and agents in shared Projects

Build around your work

Knowledge, tools, workflows and apps

Choose how it runs

Your infrastructure and model providers

AgenticOS vs ChatGPT Enterprise

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise give every employee OpenAI's assistant, plus workspace agents for shared tasks, in OpenAI's cloud. AgenticOS is for the agents your company owns: it runs on your infrastructure, uses the model you choose and answers on your website, in your chat tools and through your API.

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What you could put to work

Pick a job.
See it in action.

A useful agent should leave you with something you can use. Explore three examples from the AgenticOS product.

Research & operations

Ask the specialists. Get one brief.

Let a lead agent bring together research and analysis from specialist agents. In this example, the brief names its sources and flags the missing financial inputs instead of inventing a margin.

  1. 1.Define the question
  2. 2.Connect specialist agents
  3. 3.Review the combined brief
Explore shared Projects
A Chief of Staff agent's pricing review brief, written from what the Sales Researcher and Finance Analyst agents found.
AgenticOS product capture · illustrative demo data. Inspect the output against your own task and sources. View full-size screen ↗

Make the platform fit the work

Build for your team.
Run it your way.

01

An agent your customers can reach

OpenAI's developer page says a workspace agent's response cannot currently be retrieved through its API, and its pages list no website widget. An AgenticOS agent answers through an HTTP API that returns the result, a widget on your site, a hosted page, and Slack, Telegram and Mattermost bots.

02

The model is your decision

ChatGPT runs OpenAI models. AgenticOS reaches 28 providers, OpenAI and Azure OpenAI among them, plus Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Bedrock and models on your own hardware. Change one model profile and every agent on it moves, with no republish.

03

Enterprise controls in the open-source product

On ChatGPT, SCIM, role-based access, the Compliance API and data residency are Enterprise-only. AgenticOS ships directory group mappings, roles with per-resource grants, a tamper-evident audit log and retention per data class in every deployment. SAML and SCIM are not there yet.

04

A platform that does not move under you

OpenAI is shutting down Agent Builder, the Evals platform and saved prompt objects on 30 November 2026. A self-hosted platform changes when you upgrade it, and the agent spec is versioned and only moves forward, so a spec exported today still loads after an upgrade.

The software is Apache-2.0. Your team still owns hosting, model usage, updates and the policies it configures. Self-hosting alone does not mean zero outbound data.

The Spend tab of the Activity page: spend in the window, month to date, cost per run, the agent spending the most and a bar chart of spend per day.
What every agent spent, in your provider's currency, day by day. Product capture with illustrative data.
At a glance

ChatGPT Enterprise and AgenticOS, side by side.

  • Where it runs

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    OpenAI's cloud; storage residency in ten regions on Enterprise
    AgenticOS
    Your infrastructure

  • Source

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    Proprietary
    AgenticOS
    Apache-2.0

  • Models

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    OpenAI only
    AgenticOS
    28 providers, OpenAI included, and local models

  • Building agents

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    Workspace agents, in research preview, with versions and sharing
    AgenticOS
    Published agents with versions, environments and YAML export

  • Surfaces for an agent

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    ChatGPT, Slack, schedules, an API trigger
    AgenticOS
    Web chat, widget, hosted page, API, WebSocket, Slack, Teams, Telegram, Mattermost and browser voice

  • API

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    The trigger queues a run; the answer cannot be retrieved through the API
    AgenticOS
    The run API returns the run and its answer

  • Spend control

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    Credit pools and overage limits
    AgenticOS
    A budget per agent and per organization, checked before each model request

  • Identity and audit

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    SAML SSO on Business; SCIM, role-based access and the Compliance API on Enterprise
    AgenticOS
    OIDC SSO, LDAP and Kerberos, roles with per-resource grants and a tamper-evident audit log, in every deployment

  • Pricing

    ChatGPT Enterprise
    Business from $20 per seat a month, billed annually; Enterprise custom; agent work paid in credits
    AgenticOS
    No licence fee; model usage at your provider's rates
Choose the operating model

Choose ChatGPT Enterprise when it fits the job.

  • You want the assistant, deep research and Codex in one seat, with nothing to run.
  • You need OpenAI's certifications, key management or Compliance API partners.
  • You need SAML or SCIM today, which AgenticOS does not have yet.
Choose AgenticOS

Run the platform. Make it your own.

  • Your team wants to operate the platform and choose its infrastructure and model providers.
  • You want shared Projects, configurable specialist agents and explicit workflows in one workspace.
  • You want open-source software you can inspect and extend, and accept responsibility for operating it.

Before changing your setup

Keep ChatGPT for employees' own work, and use AgenticOS for the agents that serve customers, run behind your API or need a budget and an approver. Your own agents can run on your ChatGPT subscription instead of an API key, and the coding agent hands software work to Codex in a sandbox.

FAQ

What people ask before they switch.

Is AgenticOS a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT Enterprise?

For agents your organization owns, yes. It runs on your infrastructure, uses OpenAI or any other provider, and publishes each agent to configured surfaces with its own budget and run history. It does not replace ChatGPT as an assistant for every employee.

Can AgenticOS use OpenAI models?

Yes. Add a model profile for OpenAI or Azure OpenAI. You can move an agent to another provider later without republishing it.

What does AgenticOS cost compared with ChatGPT Enterprise?

AgenticOS has no seat or licence fee: you pay your model provider and run a host with 4 vCPU and 8 GB of RAM. ChatGPT Business starts at $20 per seat a month billed annually, and Enterprise is priced by OpenAI's sales team.

What replaces OpenAI's Agent Builder after it shuts down?

OpenAI points users to the Agents SDK or ChatGPT workspace agents. AgenticOS is an alternative if you want a builder you host yourself, with a spec format that keeps loading across upgrades.

Make the choice on your own task

One useful agent.
Start there.

Bring a handbook question, a recurring report or a small research task. Build one agent and decide whether this is the workspace you want to run.

Book a working demo Explore the source

Try it on your own infrastructure

Start with the installation guide and a model connection. No software licence fee; infrastructure and model usage are separate.

Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vstorm-co/agenticos/main/scripts/quickstart.sh | bash
Read the installation guide

Comparison by Vstorm, the team building AgenticOS. Vendor sources checked 21 October 2026.

Documented capabilities, not a head-to-head benchmark. Read the sources and comparison scope.

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