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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Cargoship

Curated open-source AI models for web developers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cargoship launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    APIPark▲719

    Your open source AI gateway & API developer portal

    2024 · apipark.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, easily create ready-to-use ML models for NLP

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    https://the-pocket.github.io/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge/

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Opengeni▲341

    Ship AI agents within minutes. Infrastructure for Agents

    Sep 2026 · opengeni.ai · its alternatives →

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    opencode▲393

    Your terminal's AI agent, with any model you want

    2025 · opencode.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Jakub, a solo founder based in Warsaw. I’ve been building GoModel since December with a couple of contributors. It's an open-source AI gateway that sits between your app and model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic or others. I built it for my startup to solve a few problems: - track AI usage and cost per client or team - switch models without changing app code - debug request flows more easily - reduce AI spendings with exact and semantic caching How is it different? - ~17MB docker image - LiteLLM's image is more than 44x bigger ("docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:latest" ~…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zoo▲234

    A free, open-source playground for AI image models

    2023 · zoo.replicate.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, my name is Maria, and I’m a co-founder of Maritime. We started Maritime at MIT to build infrastructure for companies that need to run thousands of isolated AI agents for their customers. Imagine you set up an agent like OpenClaw, or a personal assistant agent with a custom framework, and want to give a separate version of it to every customer/friend. Each customer needs their own agent running in an isolated microVM, with persistent state, secrets, triggers, and sleep/wake behavior. Building such scalable and secure infra will take you months and will cost hundreds of…

    Mar 2026 · maritime.sh · its alternatives →

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    Trace-AI▲146

    Know What You Ship. Secure What You Depend On.

    Oct 2025 · trace-ai.dev · its alternatives →

  10. 10RL

    Hello Hacker News! We're Yangqing, Xiang and JJ from lepton.ai. We are building a platform to run any AI models as easy as writing local code, and to get your favorite models in minutes. It's like container for AI, but without the hassle of actually building a docker image. We built and contributed to some of the world's most popular AI software - PyTorch 1.0, ONNX, Caffe, etcd, Kubernetes, etc. We also managed hundreds of thousands of computers in our previous jobs. And we found that the AI software stack is usually unnecessarily complex - and we want to change that. Imagine if you are a…

    2023 · lepton.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source homeserver OS with a built-in AI agent

    Jul 2026 · livinity.io · its alternatives →

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    Integrate pretrained machine learning models in minutes.

    2021 · pretrained.ai · its alternatives →

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    All your machine learning data needs under one roof

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Extend your product to train ML models on distributed data

    2022 · integrate.ai · its alternatives →

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    Synapis▲126

    Build & deploy AI models online – no code or hardware needed

    2025 · synapis.io · its alternatives →

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    One API 100+ AI models

    2024 · aimlapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Use open-source AI in your Node.js apps, up to 67x faster

    2023 · energeticai.org · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to access frontier AI models.

    Aug 2026 · tokenharbor.ai · its alternatives →

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    The open-source OS for deploying AI

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy AI-generated apps to your own server with one command. Open source, sandboxed, automatic HTTPS. Built for non-engineers.

    Apr 2026 · openberth.io · its alternatives →

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    Cluster▲72

    Automagically create docs for your open source project

    2023 · getcluster.ai · its alternatives →

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    Call open-source generative AI models with low costs

    2024 · friendli.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI enhanced container observability.

    2024 · oslabs-beta.github.io · its alternatives →

  24. 24DA

    Hey HN! We're excited to launch https://depot.ai today - depot.ai is an open-source Docker registry that makes it easy to embed public models from Hugging Face in your Docker images using a `COPY`: # Copy all files from the model repo to the current WORKDIR COPY --link --from=depot.ai/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 / . # COPY just one file from the model repo to the current WORKDIR COPY --link --from=depot.ai/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 /v1-5-pruned.ckpt . To optimize build speed, cache hits, and registry storage, we're building each image…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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