AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Burnwatch
Catch your AI agent before it drains your wallet
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, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Your AI agent hits an infinite loop and racks up $2000 in API charges overnight. This happens weekly to AI developers. AgentGuard monitors API calls in real-time and automatically kills your process when it hits your budget limit. How it works: Add 2 lines to any AI project: const agentGuard = require('agent-guard'); await agentGuard.init({ limit: 50 }); // $50 budget // Your existing code runs unchanged const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({...}); // AgentGuard tracks costs automatically When your code hits $50 in API costs, AgentGuard stops…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Agentcard for companiesfree tier▲189Agentcard gives every user of your product a wallet their agent can spend from. Cards go in once. Purchases come out priced, approved, and paid.
Jul 2026 · agentcard.sh · its alternatives →
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No one’s got money for another AI subscription. So we made our browser agent totally FREE. What's the catch? Just ads while Retriever AI fetches you leads, does your exams, applied to jobs, and sends connection requests. Think like a Claude Code or Clay level tool in your browser, but free for everyone! After 35K+ users and 7M+ workflows, we spent the last few months attacking the cost of every agent step: - switching to DeepSeek Flash - Code Mode to one shot complex workflows - optimizing for 80%+ token cache hits So that now just an ad impression covers the entire cost of the agent (LLM…
2025 · rtrvr.ai · its alternatives →
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SecAIQ Watch▲70What are your AI tools really doing on your machine?
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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delegare▲70Hi guys, am building SecureLend.ai and when working on our underwriting agents (free trial, paid after) I had issues with seamless payment options. Of course I looked at x402 which I believe is a great protocol but not a fan of a) sharing private keys with the agent b) having a human in the loop or c) similar workaround e.g. pre-funded wallets So I started building out a solution. For my use case it was important to not only have stablecoins but also a fiat rail which is now implemented using Stripe. Initially I build a mandate system internally but am very glad and big shoutout to the guys…
Apr 2026 · delegare.dev · its alternatives →
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DCP▲104Give your AI agents encrypted permission and keys
May 2026 · dcpagent.com · its alternatives →
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AgentGuard▲71Scan AI agent Skills for risks before you install them
15d ago · agentguard-sigma-five.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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burnban▲1Meter and cap AI agent spend on your own machine
Jul 2026 · burnban.dev · its alternatives →
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The AI agent firewall: catches hijacks that pass every rule
Jul 2026 · agentguard-dusky.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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The Missing Financial Layer for AI Agents
Feb 2026 · tonatisp.github.io · its alternatives →
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We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day. How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it creates a project for our team of autonomous AI Agents. You'll get notifications (email + app) when significant events matching your criteria are detected. For short-term projects, you'll be notified when your analysis is ready. Behind the scenes: When you give the AI Assistant a request to monitor an entity (like a stock or group of stocks), an AI Project Manager plans the project and breaks the project down into manageable…
2024 · decodeinvesting.com · its alternatives →
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AgentWatch▲12Hi HN, I’m a solo developer and built AgentWatch to solve a problem I kept running into while building AI agents: preventing runaway loops and unexpected LLM spend before requests reach the model. AgentWatch sits in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Groq, and others to enforce budgets and runtime policies. I’d really appreciate your feedback. If you’re building AI agents, does this solve a problem you’ve experienced? I’d also love to hear what you’d improve or challenge.
Jun 2026 · agent-watch.dev · 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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Stop burning money blind on LLM API calls
Feb 2026 · agentpulses.com · its alternatives →
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Local security & compliance scanner for AI agents
Jul 2026 · safeclaude.net · its alternatives →
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Know the minute a new AI model drops.
Jul 2026 · artificialwatch.com · its alternatives →
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The financial stack for the Agentic AI economy
2024 · skyfire.xyz · its alternatives →
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The only way to go fast is full YOLO mode in your coding agent. I've got the local sandbox figured out (pro tip: Incus VMs work great) but I wanted to keep my agents from doing things like inadvertently blowing up my cloud services or chasing a prompt to POST to some random website. I struggle most with this on my side projects where my permission model isn't quite as robust as it is at the office. I started with a firewall on the Incus container but every time the agent needed access to something new, I was poking more holes in it - and it didn't differentiate between HTTP verbs. I've been…
Jul 2026 · trollbridge.dev · its alternatives →
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The guard that can actually stop an AI agent when it matters
Jun 2026 · veto-ai.com · its alternatives →
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27 security checks for your AI agent. 2 minutes. Free.
Apr 2026 · thepitstop.ai · its alternatives →
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