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24 alternatives to AgentDuel

I have been interested in BattleBots and programming games for years. With recent AI coding agents, I wanted to see what happens if the strategy itself becomes code written by humans or AI. AgentDuel is a deterministic turn-based arena where agents fight based on submitted TypeScript strategies. Each battle produces a replay so you can inspect every decision.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Creator here. I built Agent Arena to answer a question that kept bugging me: when AI agents browse the web autonomously, how easily can they be manipulated by hidden instructions? How it works: 1. Send your AI agent to ref.jock.pl/modern-web (looks like a harmless web dev cheat sheet) 2. Ask it to summarize the page 3. Paste its response into the scorecard at wiz.jock.pl/experiments/agent-arena/ The page is loaded with 10 hidden prompt injection attacks -- HTML comments, white-on-white text, zero-width Unicode, data attributes, etc. Most agents fall for at least a few.…

    Jun 2026 · arena42.ai · its alternatives →

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    Agentplace▲1,015

    Garry Tan posted a video this week about what he calls 20x companies. The idea is that small teams beat incumbents many times their size by automating everything internally, not just one or two functions. This alpha is real, and I think it is underhyped tbh. But here's the honest part, building agents is hard, expensive and most of the scaffolding we make would be obsolete with a new labs release. at the same time models are not quite there and they are not keeping up with "coding is dead" and "knowledge workers are doomed". Pushing them beyond what they can actually do reliably just boils…

    2024 · agentplace.io · its alternatives →

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    The visual feedback tool for AI agents

    Mar 2026 · agentation.com · its alternatives →

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    SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589

    Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…

    2025 · simplai.ai · its alternatives →

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    Bot Land is no longer playable as of October 22nd, 2020.

    2019 · bot.land · its alternatives →

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    Build your own cross-vendor multi-agent AI team

    2025 · agentx.so · its alternatives →

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    Test your AI apps with thousands of digital humans

    2025 · agentsimulate.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentCrew▲364

    100% free tools to automate your tasks with AI today

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Build design, and ship anything AI fast in one flow

    2025 · replit.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentHub▲279

    Automate any workflow with AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    robotgame.org is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

    2013 · robotgame.org · its alternatives →

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    Deploy AI Agent, 60 seconds & $0 forever

    Aug 2026 · betterclaw.io · its alternatives →

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    Tag any agent, wherever work happens.

    Aug 2026 · agentconnect.md · its alternatives →

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    Get real-world tasks done with autonomous AI agents

    Jun 2026 · arena.ai · its alternatives →

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    A local control plane for AI coding agents

    May 2026 · agentrail.app · its alternatives →

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    over the past couple months, i've picked up an old project around writing AI in python. the premise is to code a strategy for an AI player to use in a simplified RTS game. the AI basically takes the seat of a human player and the human codes its brain. main site: http://okayzed.github.com/dmangame/introduction.html app engine server and match archive that runs and hosts games: http://dmangame-app.appspot.com github: http://github.com/okayzed/dmangame more AI: http://github.com/okayzed/dmanai i'm looking for players, comments, ideas, etc - thanks!

    2011 · okayzed.github.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentPeek▲164

    Your coding agents, in the Mac notch

    Jun 2026 · agentpeek.app · its alternatives →

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    We recently built 2draw, a Drawful-style game where players draw on a shared canvas and race to guess each other's drawings, on tldraw, an infinite-canvas SDK for React. We started wondering what it would take to put an agent in that loop, as an opponent or a rival guesser, and dug into how an agent could read and draw on a tldraw canvas. That research turned into: Agent draw, a tool that lets an agent draw to the canvas for you while you present. You can try it right now, or grab the source: - Live demo: https://tldraw-agent-draw-demo.james-664.workers.dev - Source:…

    Jul 2026 · techstackups.com · its alternatives →

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    Create AI agents and watch them debate

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    I'm working on a coding agent for building iOS apps. It's built on openspec and xcodebuildmcp. It's free and open source.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stop AI agents from installing malicious packages.

    Jul 2026 · agentinel.habitwala.in · its alternatives →

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    deduce▲66

    A daily Wordle-like puzzle for AI agents

    Apr 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Paste one prompt. Your AI agent registers a creature, fights battles, levels up, and trash talks — all on its own. You just watch.

    May 2026 · battleclaws.ai · its alternatives →

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