{"id":100181,"title":"OpenWork - The open source alternative to Claude Cowork","tagline":"An enterprise-ready alternative to Claude Cowork","body":"Hi! This is Ben from OpenWork.\n\nWe're building an **open source, enterprise-ready alternative to Claude Cowork** that companies can deploy internally — with **their own LLMs, their own infrastructure, and their own compliance posture**.\n\nWe launched 3 months ago, and already have 14k GitHub stars and 150k+ downloads.\n\nOpenWork is:\n\n\\- **Desktop** that you can provide to your non-technical employees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=100181\u0026key=user_uploads/571092/b4e8acf0-097b-4320-88f2-aca59afd8b42)\n\n\\- **Cloud** that lets you administer which skills, plugins, mcps your users have access to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=100181\u0026key=user_uploads/571092/ed1de3e2-31bf-4a27-b1b8-7326cf2aef92)\n\nSome advantages over Claude Cowork:\n\n\\- **Deploy it where you want.** Use our cloud, or self-host on-premise, in your cloud, or hybrid. Companies with stricter requirements keep everything inside their trust perimeter.\n\n\\- **Model-independent, cost-controlled.** Bring your own: self-hosted, Bedrock, Azure, Vertex, or any of 50+ providers. Route per task so you only pay frontier prices when it actually matters.  \n\n\\- **Reuses what you have.** Internal MCPs, runbooks, scripts, and docs become agent capabilitie    \n\n\\- **Shared across the team.** Technical and non-technical teammates use the same agents from the UI, Slack, or Telegram.\n\nOpen source. No lock-in on infra or models.\n\nWays to get started:\n\n1\\. Try the desktop app - no sign-in required\n\n2\\. Sign in to our cloud\n\nor:\n\nbook a demo:\n\n\u003chttps://cal.com/team/openwork/enterprise\u003e\n\n    ","slug":"Q3p-openwork-the-open-source-alternative-to-claude-cowork","created_at":"2026-04-23T23:20:48.418Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:43:18.476Z","total_vote_count":31,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q3p-openwork-the-open-source-alternative-to-claude-cowork","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=100181\u0026key=user_uploads/571092/ed1de3e2-31bf-4a27-b1b8-7326cf2aef92","company":{"id":31505,"name":"OpenWork","slug":"openwork","url":"https://openworklabs.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79f117b2c0a8e5660f929ae9a8070ce8dd61d0ff.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31505"}}