The Deep Research Tool List

A curated list of tools similar to OpenAI's Deep Research tool/model, released in February 2025. Deep Research is a new approach to AI-powered research that combines web crawling, document analysis, and information synthesis. ## Deep Research Implementations | Tool | Description | Link | |------|-------------|------| | OpenAI Deep Research | The original implementation using GPT-4, focused on academic research and synthesis. It has since evolved. | [Learn More](https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research) | | HuggingFace Deep Research | Open source replica of the Deep Research model with additional tools | [View Blog](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/open-deep-research.md) | | Firecrawl | Open source clone using Firecrawl's extraction engine for web data processing | [GitHub](https://github.com/nickscamara/open-deep-research) | | OpenDeepResearcher | Python framework implementing Deep Research with multiple LLM backend support | [GitHub](https://github.com/mshumer/OpenDeepResearcher) | | Node-DeepResearch | Node.js implementation with neural search capabilities | [GitHub](https://github.com/jina-ai/node-DeepResearch) |

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