OpenDots

OpenDots is CopilotKit's open answer to OpenAI's Dots, launched the same day: a web app where you spin up always-on AI coworkers, each with a role, permissions, its own sandboxed computer, a Slack presence and voice calls. The app code is MIT. The part that makes chat work is not.

Conversations run through CopilotKit Intelligence, a proprietary backend. You either use CopilotKit's hosted service, run a local evaluation in Docker Desktop on macOS that wants 12 GiB of RAM and expires every 30 days, or buy a self-hosted license. Bring your own OpenAI-compatible model key; voice calls only work through OpenAI's Realtime API. Dot computers need OpenBot's container services (CopilotKit/OpenBot).

The free Developer tier covers one developer with 3-day thread retention. Pro is $39 a month, Team is $100 per seat a month for up to 5 seats, and Team is the cheapest plan that includes self-hosting. Solo tinkerers can try it free. Teams eyeing production should price Team or Enterprise before forking anything. n8n (n8n-io/n8n) and Dify (langgenius/dify) self-host end to end if the lock-in bothers you.

The catch: it's an alpha template with no releases, single-owner by design (no shared editing yet), and telemetry is on by default. Open source here means the front of the house.