Task Machine vs AutoGPT

AutoGPT started as the open-source project that let a model chase a goal on its own. Today it also sells a hosted team of AI specialists. Task Machine runs recurring work as explicit workflows, with every consequential decision waiting for you in one Inbox.

What AutoGPT does well

AutoGPT's pitch is "Meet your AI team." Its Experts are AI specialists for content, sales, research, and recurring work that you brief in plain English, and an agent called Otto coordinates them. Nothing has to be configured before the first result.

Its open-source roots remain: the project has 187,000+ GitHub stars, and the visual builder can still be self-hosted with your own infrastructure and models. Hosted plans start with a 7-day trial, then Pro at $50 a month or Max at $320.

Prices and features were checked against each vendor's own pages on 6 October 2026.

How Task Machine differs

AutoGPT's Experts run a job the way they understand your brief, and you review the results. Approvals before something goes out are yours to organize.

Task Machine makes each recurring job an explicit workflow with branch conditions, Human approval and Ask human steps, and verifier checks. You decide in Chat, approve in the Inbox, and steer in Tasks, and every run keeps a step-by-step history, so you can read what happened and change one step without rewriting the brief.

What you get with Task Machine

Approval before work goes out. A Human approval step holds a send, a publish, or a payment until you approve it in the Inbox.

Checks on every result. Verifier checks hold each output to its requirements and send failed work back with feedback.

A starting point for each job. A catalog of 140 playbooks, each with a guide, installs the agents, workflows, and documents for jobs such as content, outreach, and reporting.

From $99 a month. Agents run in the Cloud by default, or on a computer you connect, and pricing starts at $99 a month. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your accounts.

When each fits

Choose AutoGPT if you want a team of AI specialists you brief in plain English, or the open-source builder you can host yourself.

Choose Task Machine if recurring work should follow a process you can read, with approvals and checks before anything ships and every decision in one Inbox.

Common questions

Is AutoGPT still open source? Yes. The AutoGPT project and its visual builder remain open source and self-hostable, and the company also sells hosted Experts.

How does Task Machine keep work controlled? Recurring work runs as workflows with Human approval and Ask human steps and verifier checks, and every decision arrives in one Inbox.

Do I need to build agents to use Task Machine? No. You start from playbooks and describe work in Chat.