jan Alternatives (2026)
As of September 2026, the top alternatives to jan are cherry-studio, LibreChat, anything-llm, gemini-cli, nanoclaw, CowAgent, DeepTutor and QwenPaw — ranked open-source Chatbot & Conversational agents on The Agentic Leaderboard.
Ranked by overall score on reliability, tool selection quality, autonomous iteration, efficiency, and community mindshare. Updated weekly.
| Rank | Alternative | Score | vs jan |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | cherry-studio by CherryHQ | 86.6 | +0.4 |
| #28 | LibreChat by danny-avila | 85.2 | -1.0 |
| #49 | anything-llm by Mintplex-Labs | 84.5 | -1.7 |
| #56 | gemini-cli by google-gemini | 84.3 | -1.9 |
| #59 | nanoclaw by nanocoai | 84.2 | -2.0 |
| #83 | CowAgent by zhayujie | 83.5 | -2.7 |
| #93 | DeepTutor by HKUDS | 83.2 | -3.0 |
| #96 | QwenPaw by agentscope-ai | 83.2 | -3.0 |