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24 alternatives to AgentKeys

Secure credential proxy for AI agents

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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    AgentAuth▲462

    Connect your AI Agents with your Accounts

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Today we're launching Agent Vault - an open source HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents. Repo is at https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault, and there's an in-depth description at https://infisical.com/blog/agent-vault-the-open-source-crede.... We built Agent Vault in response to a question that been plaguing the industry: How do we give agents secure access to services without them reading any secrets? Most teams building agents have run into this exact problem: They build an agent or agentic system and come to realize at some point…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentKeyfree tier▲400

    One-stop live data marketplace for your agent

    Jul 2026 · agentkey.app · its alternatives →

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    Latchkey▲122

    Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Proxy 1.0▲718

    Your AI Assistant that actually gets things done

    2025 · convergence.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…

    Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →

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    Cred▲97

    OAuth credential delegation for AI agents

    Apr 2026 · cred.ninja · its alternatives →

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    DCP▲104

    Give your AI agents encrypted permission and keys

    May 2026 · dcpagent.com · its alternatives →

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    CtrlAI▲104

    Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been experimenting with AI agents lately, and one problem kept coming up: they either get a raw API key with full access or nothing at all. That’s risky, especially if you’re testing agents that can make arbitrary calls. So I hacked together a tiny package called Kage Keys - https://github.com/kagehq/keys It lets you wrap agent actions with scoped, short-lived tokens instead of handing over your real API keys. Example: ```js import { withAgentKey, getLogs } from "@kagehq/keys"; async function main() { await withAgentKey("github:repos.read", async () => {…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Credential Butler for Agents

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Give AI agents identity, secrets vault & analytics

    Feb 2026 · nervepay.xyz · its alternatives →

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    We built OneCLI because AI agents are being given raw API keys. And it's going about as well as you'd expect. We figured the answer isn't "don't give agents access," it's "give them access without giving them secrets." OneCLI is an open-source gateway that sits between your AI agents and the services they call. You store your real credentials once in OneCLI's encrypted vault, and give your agents placeholder keys. When an agent makes an HTTP call through the proxy, OneCLI matches the request by host/path, verifies the agent should have access, swaps the placeholder for the real…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tag any agent, wherever work happens.

    Aug 2026 · agentconnect.md · its alternatives →

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    Share API keys with AI agents. Encrypted. No server needed.

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    We built the Kontext CLI because AI coding agents need access to GitHub, Stripe, databases, and dozens of other services — and right now most teams handle this by copy-pasting long-lived API keys into .env files, or the actual chat interface, whilst hoping for the best. The problem isn't just secret sprawl. It's that there's no lineage of access. You don't know which developer launched which agent, what it accessed, or whether it should have been allowed to. The moment you hand raw credentials to a process, you've lost the ability to enforce policy, audit access, or rotate without pain. The…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Managed auth and 10,000+ tools across 3,000+ APIs for the agents you’re building — and a secure gateway for the AI tools your company uses.

    2012 · apiaxle.com · its alternatives →

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    AIProxy▲32

    Protect your OpenAI key in 5 min with a fully managed proxy

    2024 · aiproxy.com · its alternatives →

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    Your AI agent asks. You decide. From your phone.

    May 2026 · agentlock.net · its alternatives →

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    Stop giving AI agents your API keys in plaintext > Use Vault

    Mar 2026 · tryvault.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Credential proxy so AI agents never see secrets

    Aug 2026 · vultrino.com · its alternatives →

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    AI API security proxy

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your agent team, on your machine. Open-source harness for multi-user Claude agents. - yaodub/cast

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    over this weekend myself and two of my friends took part in a hackathon and built this side-project. we have been diving into computer-use recently and developed an sdk to make it easy to implement for devs like us. one feature we were missing though, was the agent being able to log into services. anthropic understandably blocks this capability with their guardrails, and you wouldn't want your credentials to end up in any model context anyways. so we added a keychain service to the vm that the agent is using. it was built using the pass cli (https://www.passwordstore.org/).…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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