AI · alternatives · 2026

Clink is a platform that lets developers use their existing AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini, or Z.ai GLM) to build, preview, and deploy web applications in an isolated container. Users connect their… 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.

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   agents-cli▲145

   The CLI your coding agent uses to ship agents

   Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent 37▲401

   Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

   Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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   Cline Desktop Appfree tier▲265

   An open-source app for open-weight models

   Sep 2026 · cline.bot · its alternatives →

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   Open-source CLI coding framework using Claude▲84

   AI powered cli coding agent that monitors your dev/test server and fixes errors and adds features - vysakh0/dravid

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs▲138

   I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs. When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its work. Today that all happens on your local machine. This works fine for a single task, but the agent is sharing your computer: your ports, RAM, screen. If you run multiple agents in parallel, it gets a bit chaotic. Docker helps with isolation, but it still uses your machine's resources, and doesn't give the agent a browser, a desktop, or a GPU to…

   Feb 2026 · cloudrouter.dev · its alternatives →

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   Cline CLI 2.0▲298

   Parallel agents & headless CI/CD in your terminal

   Feb 2026 · cline.bot · its alternatives →

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   Agent Runners▲185

   Build and ship with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini in Netlify

   2025 · netlify.com · its alternatives →

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   Freebuff▲310

   Free coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin

   Aug 2026 · freebuff.com · its alternatives →

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   Gemini CLI▲224

   A simple weekend project, to check if chat conversation could be used on CLI. Uses Google Gemini's gemini-2.0-flash model. Configs will make it nicer, but I wanted to keep it simple to test and launch for now. I can add things for you :) Please give it a try!

   2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Parallel Code▲159

    I kept running into a structural problem with AI coding tools. You try one agent. It makes changes. You try another. Now you're manually diffing branches and cleaning up experimental commits. The tools are powerful, but the workflow isn’t designed for comparison. So I built Parallel Code. It runs Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI natively (no API wrapper, no feature abstraction), but isolates each agent in: its own terminal its own Git worktree its own feature branch The workflow becomes: Spawn N worktrees Assign one AI agent per worktree Let them implement independently Compare diffs Merge…

    Mar 2026 · parallelcode.app · its alternatives →

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    Vibe Pocket▲135

    Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile

    Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →

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    VibeKit CLI▲153

    The safety layer for your coding agent

    2025 · vibekit.sh · its alternatives →

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    ShioriCode▲119

    Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code

    May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →

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    CLI Manager▲105

    One dashboard to run and organize multiple AI CLI agents

    Dec 2025 · solhun.com · its alternatives →

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    A CLI to use any model in your coding agent▲5

    Hi everyone, I've been working on a CLI tool that can help to easily run any model in claude, Codex, Gemini, Pi, and OpenCode. It's also an API keys manager, supports multiple providers or OpenAI/Claude/Gemini accounts. You can add openrouter, poe, Vercel AI gateways etc. It has a built-in provider that is free to all, which is using Deepseek-V4, no login or API key required, add your own when you're ready. After installation you can try claude instantly (No config, no login): aivo claude Hope it's useful to someone.

    Apr 2026 · getaivo.dev · its alternatives →

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    Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents▲109

    Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip). Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jthcU705k Docs start at…

    Feb 2026 · docs.smooth.sh · its alternatives →

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    DexCode▲94

    Your AI Agent builds the Deck & you never leave the terminal

    Mar 2026 · co-r-e.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Clai - Vendor agnostic Claude Code/Gemini CLI written in Go▲11

    Clai allows you to pipe files into practically any AI model, local or remote, and then stores the output as conversations locally. Supports tooling calls for many convenient bash tools, also supports writing local files. You can also pre-prompt with the new profiles, which enables convenient swapping between custom tool + prompt configurations. Personally I use clai practically all the time. It auto-generate unittests in seconds, can analyze huge complex codebases, interpret confusing output + syntax, etc. It's a tool, like a hammer, so you need to know how to use it. But once you do it…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Code▲20

    Hey HN, Today we're launching Code, a community-driven, open-source coding agent for your terminal. It's a fork of OpenAI's codex with a focus on developer ergonomics and local control. Key features: - Browser integration – attach to your Chrome via CDP or use a built-in headless browser. You can browse pages, run the CLI in a browser session, and even take screenshots from the terminal. - Multi-agent commands – /plan, /solve and /code orchestrate multiple models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to propose and implement solutions, with consensus or race options. - Diff viewer – see…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Give Claude Code control of your browser (open-source)▲10

    As I started to use Claude Code to do more random tasks I realized I could basically build any CLI tool and it would use it. So I built one that controls the browser and open-sourced it. It should work with Codex or any other CLI-based agent! I have a long term idea where the models are all local and then the tool is privacy preserving because it's easy to remove PII from text, but I'd definitely not recommend using this for anything important just yet. You'll need a Gemini key until I (or someone else) figure out how to distill a local version out of that part of the pipeline. Github link:…

    2025 · cli-agents.click · its alternatives →

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    CLOR – Share your YC application with investors▲19

    At my last job I spent a year building an agentic coding platform used by hundreds of thousands of people. Along the way I tried building a hosting service on OpenClaw, and also ran Hermes myself for a while. Both projects have some great feature ideas, but when I tried to use them for real work they failed more often than not, and their security models worried me. I just couldn't see either one becoming something I'd trust enough for myself/friends/family. After a lot of exploration I realized that what I really wanted all along was to create automations using the coding agent I…

    2018 · clor.com · its alternatives →

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    Aether▲26

    Since coding agents like Claude Code and Codex came out, I've been pretty obsessed with them. It's hard not to when you're getting a 20x discount on inference. I've also been frustrated by them a lot. I hated walking around with my laptop lid open while connected to a hotspot on my phone, having to tediously accept commands so I don't lose my root directory, and running out of RAM when running multiple agents that were spinning up dev servers in different worktrees at once. A lot of people would say existing cloud agents are the solution to this, as none of the above problems apply to any…

    Jul 2026 · runaether.dev · its alternatives →

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    Agents, run any coding agent on your subscription not API costsfree▲6

    Hi HN. I'm the founder of Phoenix Labs (ex TikTok, Applied AI) and we're open sourcing our internal tooling today which is like a toolchain / meta-harness for CLI agents useful for really scaling eng and creative work. We are a very small team who's building a very ambitious product so we had to find ways to squeeze every ounce of efficiency that we could get our hands on. Harness strengths of different models (Claude, GPTs) and CLI-harnesses (Claude Code, Codex), safe/robust browser integration to speed up UX/QA testing, teams cli to speed up security reviews and parallelize…

    May 2026 · agents-cli.sh · its alternatives →

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    Maestro▲20

    Bloomberg Terminal for CLI agents

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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