AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Athena
Simple browser workflow automation
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Athena launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Automate your work on any website
2021 · browserflow.app · its alternatives →
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Asteroid▲673AI browser agents for your back office, built in seconds
2025 · asteroid.ai · its alternatives →
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Athena▲147Microsoft's AI dev agent, right inside Teams
2025 · devblogs.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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An orchestrator agent for your entire commerce stack
Jul 2026 · shoplaza.ai · its alternatives →
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Simplex is an SDK that provides low-level functions you can use to create reliable web automations using code and natural language. Here's a quick video to show you how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8d27d0f9e0f34c77a81b0ac770151c12 A couple weeks ago, we needed a way to automatically find 3D assets from the internet for one of our work contracts. We didn’t need an AI to choose all the steps for us autonomously — we knew generally what the flow to find items should be and just needed some intelligence to handle different webpage formats. Playwright couldn’t easily…
2025 · simplex.sh · its alternatives →
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A local command room for AI coding agents.
Jun 2026 · luckeysystems.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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AutoFlow▲8Intelligent automation platform for everyone
2025 · youagent-autoflow.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're Alexi and Jonas the co-founders of Autotab (https://autotab.com). Autotab is a chrome-based browser you can teach to do complex tasks, with a simple API for running them from your app or backend. Here is a walkthrough of how it works: https://youtu.be/63co74JHy1k, and you can try it for free at https://autotab.com by downloading the app. Why a dedicated editor? The number one blocker we've found in building more flexible, agentic automations is performance quality BY FAR…
2024 · its alternatives →
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LemonLime▲169Automates your existing workflows with a single prompt.
Jul 2026 · lemonlime.com · its alternatives →
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Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM. Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduction. We spent a year building and maintaining browser automations for EHR and payer portal…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Athena — an AI-native data platform w/ multi-modal analysis
2024 · its alternatives →
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Open Comet▲117The autonomous AI browser agent for deep research & tasks
Apr 2026 · opencomet.onrender.com · its alternatives →
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Automated▲89Automate any workflow by recording a demo
Mar 2026 · useautomated.com · its alternatives →
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Pipecat▲66Build AI workflows and assistants for your business
May 2026 · app.pipecat.in · its alternatives →
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