MetaGPT is an open-source multi-agent framework that takes a one-line software requirement and runs it through simulated product manager, architect, project manager, and engineer agents to output user stories, system design, and working code. Chenglin Wu, who founded parent company DeepWisdom in Shenzhen, China in 2019 after roles at Huawei and Tencent, released MetaGPT publicly in June 2023.
Rather than one model attempting an entire build in a single pass, MetaGPT encodes standard operating procedures from real software teams into its agent roles, so a product-manager agent produces a PRD before an architect agent designs a system, mirroring how a human team would sequence the same work. Generating a full example project with analysis and design costs roughly $0.20 in API credits, and a complete project runs around $2.00, since MetaGPT itself is free but calls out to paid LLM APIs.
MetaGPT suits developers and technical teams comfortable running a Python framework who want automated scaffolding from requirements to code rather than a chat-based coding assistant. The framework is free and open source under an MIT license with over 31,000 GitHub stars; DeepWisdom also sells a separate commercial product, MGX (MetaGPT X), built on the same underlying approach.
