Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

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 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. Bot Detection API launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   guilds.runfree tier, from $19/mo▲202

   The open-source Grok Bot alternative

   12d ago · guilds.run · its alternatives →

2. 2
   There Is A Bot For That▲219

   Search engine for bots

   2017 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Wit.ai Bot Engine (Beta)▲186

   Helping developers make bots great again

   2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

4. 4CT
   Captcha to detect bots with a simple question▲5

   Apr 2026 · joshryandavis.github.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Recast.AI 2.0▲164

   The ultimate end-to-end collaborative bot platform

   2017 · recastai.com · its alternatives →

6. 6SA
   Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs▲179

   2016 · spotbot.qa · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Botson▲92

   Detect bots in your twitter feed.

   2017 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Spam-Detecting AI by OpenAI▲73

   Spam detection in the physical world

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Botframe▲157

   A playground to design & validate bots

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Lots of Bots – find and compare mobile robots▲6

    2019 · lotsofbots.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    GEIO▲102

    A FPS battle bot with visual recognition

    2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Pentesting Bot▲54

    A powerful automated security testing tool

    2024 · geneau.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    API BOT▲73

    Builds APIs from existing SQL/MYSQL database schemas

    2021 · its alternatives →

14. 14TU
    The useful library to simplify your work with Telegram Bot Api [Node.js]▲6

    2016 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

15. 15OS
    Open source bot framework that works with all major messengers▲8

    2016 · blog.smooch.io · its alternatives →

16. 16
    O'Reilly Bots - #4 - Cathy Pearl on voice user interfaces for bots▲61

    The basics of VUI design

    2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →

17. 17TT
    Trump Tracker Bot▲9

    2017 · sentieo.com · its alternatives →

18. 18ML
    My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API▲9

    2010 · polyglossy.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Cheap Bots, Done Quick! - a free twitterbot platform▲5

    2015 · cheapbotsdonequick.com · its alternatives →

20. 20RS
    Roundtable – Survey fraud and bot detection API▲21

    Hi HN, we're Mayank and Matt of Roundtable (https://www.roundtable.ai). We launched our Survey Simulator as part of YC S23 (see Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865625), and ultimately decided to pivot because we couldn't convince users to trust our results and our value proposition wasn't clear. We conducted tons of user discovery interviews, and a lot of big players talked about the pain of manual QC and bot detection. We launched a survey fraud and bot detection API (Alias; docs.roundtable.ai) that determines whether a bot is answering your survey…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    SmarterChild▲15

    An intelligent bot

    2014 · en.wikipedia.org · its alternatives →

22. 22BC
    Bot curator bot. So meta▲5

    2016 · bothunterbot.com · its alternatives →

23. 23TA
    Tutorials, articles, datasets and other resources for bot makers▲5

    2015 · botwiki.org · its alternatives →

24. 24BB
    Bottr – Bot Framework for Node.jsfree▲5

    2016 · bottr.co · its alternatives →

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