AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to APort
First Passport + Guardrail 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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Venn.ai▲336Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
Mar 2026 · venn.ai · its alternatives →
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Configurable safety control for enterprise agent deployment.
Apr 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Arcjetfree tier, from $25/mo▲430Secure the AI agents you're building at runtime
Sep 2026 · arcjet.com · its alternatives →
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CtrlAI▲104Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Firstwork▲139Agentic AI for frontline hiring and onboarding
May 2026 · firstwork.com · its alternatives →
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Align API▲87Plug-and-play guardrails for your AI application
2023 · alignapi.com · its alternatives →
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An information-flow policy engine for LLM agents.
24d ago · openappa.com · its alternatives →
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Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue
Aug 2026 · neatproxy.com · its alternatives →
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We build runtime security for AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own guardrails. But we kept finding the same types of vulnerabilities because we think about attacks a certain way. At some point you need people who don't think like you. So we open-sourced it. Each challenge is a live agent with real tools and a published system prompt. Whenever a challenge is over, the full winning conversation transcript and guardrail logs get documented publicly. Building the general-purpose agent itself was probably the most fun part. Getting it to reliably use…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been developing Portkey Gateway, an open-source AI gateway that's now processing billions of tokens daily across 200+ LLMs. Today, we're launching a significant update: integrated Guardrails at the gateway level. Key technical features: 1. Guardrails as middleware: We've implemented a hooks architecture that allows guardrails to act as middleware in the request/response flow. This enables real-time LLM output evaluation and transformation. 2. Flexible orchestration: The gateway can now route requests based on guardrail verdicts. This allows for complex logic like fallbacks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?” Rules weren’t cutting it, and we needed a scalable, agentic-native STANDARD I could count on. There wasn’t one. So I built one. Here are two open-source protocols that extend A2A, granting AI agents behavioral contracts and runtime integrity monitoring: - Agent Alignment Protocol (AAP): What an agent can do / has done. - Agent Integrity Protocol (AIP): What an agent is thinking about doing / is allowed to do. The problem:…
Feb 2026 · mnemom.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built Agent Passport, an open-source identity verification layer for AI agents. Think "Sign in with Google, but for Agents." The problem: AI agents are everywhere now (OpenClaw has 180K+ GitHub stars, Moltbook had 2.3M agent accounts), but there's no standard way for agents to prove their identity. Malicious agents can impersonate others, and skill/plugin marketplaces have no auth layer. Cisco's security team already found data exfiltration in third-party agent skills. Agent Passport solves this with: - Ed25519 challenge-response authentication (private keys never leave the…
Feb 2026 · agent-passport-red.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Check if your AI API usage complies with provider ToS
Mar 2026 · apiguardrails.com · its alternatives →
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Lineation▲10Real-time guardrails for agentic AI and enterprise workflows
Jul 2026 · lineation.ai · its alternatives →
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Fast and adaptive security guardrail for AI agents
2025 · guardion.ai · its alternatives →
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Open-source pre-execution security for AI coding agents - FvdHMBAI/guardrail
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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