Octop is Tencent Cloud's self-hosted multi-user, multi-agent assistant platform: one instance across web, CLI, chat apps and cron, on your own LLM keys.
Yes, Octop is open source under the MIT license.
Octop is free to use.
Yes, Octop can be self-hosted (the source is available under the MIT license).
MIT self-hosted AI assistant platform from Tencent Cloud (Python) that runs multi-user, multi-agent for a household or small team from a single instance. One process serves a web dashboard, a CLI, chat channels (Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, Discord, WeCom), an HTTP/SSE/WebSocket API, IDE integration over ACP, and cron automation, all sharing the same agents and data on your own machine. You bring your own LLM provider (OpenAI, DashScope, Ollama and others), and nothing core requires a paid Tencent service.
Most team AI assistants are a hosted product that also holds your team's conversations and context. Octop is the self-hosted version: one instance your agents live in, reachable from the web, a terminal, the chat app your team already uses, an API, the IDE and cron, on models you choose and data you keep. For a GTM team that wants agents in the flow of work without shipping that flow to someone else's cloud, that ownership is the point, and 3.9k stars with ~481 commits behind a Tencent Cloud repo is real weight. The honest read: you still pay for the model provider, the chat integrations skew toward Chinese platforms plus Discord, and the sheer number of surfaces is both the appeal and the setup cost, so turn on only the channels you will use.