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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Chancery

The identity provider 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 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.

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    SureThing.iofree tier, from $30/mo▲458

    Autonomous agent that communicates results like a human

    Apr 2026 · surething.io · its alternatives →

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    Solidfree tier, from $40/mo▲471

    Agents with their own computers, accounts, and budgets.

    Sep 2026 · solid.tech · its alternatives →

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    Agentlyfree tier, from $33/mo▲336

    Agently is an AI Work OS where documents, tasks, team chat, and integrations are fully interconnected, and AI employees operate inside that shared workspace. Instead of prompting AI in isolation, agents can read project context, turn strategy docs into tasks, coordinate with teammates, run research/outreach/content workflows, update boards, and push results back into the system or external tools. The workspace acts as persistent memory, so work continues instead of resetting every prompt. Happy to answer any questions

    Jul 2026 · agently.dev · its alternatives →

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    Give AI agents identity, secrets vault & analytics

    Feb 2026 · nervepay.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…

    Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open-source runtime for durable AI agents

    May 2026 · orkes.io · its alternatives →

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    Google's platform to run AI agents at enterprise scale

    Apr 2026 · cloud.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Build & scale AI \ agents as microservices with IAM

    Dec 2025 · agentfield.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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    Build, deploy, and run all your AI agents in one platform.

    May 2026 · app.aihive.global · its alternatives →

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    Agents orchestrating other agents. Contribute to backnotprop/orchestrator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Avery▲16

    Create a deterministic agent that runs on your hardware

    Jul 2026 · avery.software · its alternatives →

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    HelixID▲34

    Open-source identity & trust layer for AI agents

    Sep 2026 · helixid.dev · its alternatives →

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    Kakunin▲20

    Cryptographic identity for autonomous AI agents

    May 2026 · kakunin.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m the creator of Cordum. I’ve been working in DevOps and infrastructure for years (currently in the fintech/security space), and as I started playing with AI agents, I noticed a scary pattern. Most "safety" mechanisms rely on system prompts ("Please don't do X") or flimsy Python logic inside the agent itself. If we treat agents as autonomous employees, giving them root access and hoping they listen to instructions felt insane to me. I wanted a way to enforce hard constraints that the LLM cannot override, no matter how "jailbroken" it gets. So I built Cordum. It’s an open-source…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source auth for enterprise applications, and AI agents

    Sep 2026 · authorizer.dev · 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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    Identity and trust for AI agents — verify, revoke, enforce

    Mar 2026 · agentspassports.com · its alternatives →

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    over this weekend myself and two of my friends took part in a hackathon and built this side-project. we have been diving into computer-use recently and developed an sdk to make it easy to implement for devs like us. one feature we were missing though, was the agent being able to log into services. anthropic understandably blocks this capability with their guardrails, and you wouldn't want your credentials to end up in any model context anyways. so we added a keychain service to the vm that the agent is using. it was built using the pass cli (https://www.passwordstore.org/).…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stop giving AI agents your API keys in plaintext > Use Vault

    Mar 2026 · tryvault.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Secure credential proxy for AI agents

    Mar 2026 · agentkeys.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate tasks with AI. No code. No hassle.

    2025 · dreamable.in · its alternatives →

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    Your own AI workforce - agents that think, act & remember

    Jul 2026 · aigenthive.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI agent platform — own it, run any model

    Jul 2026 · ibl.ai · its alternatives →

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