AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CtrlAI
Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Proxy 1.0▲718Your AI Assistant that actually gets things done
2025 · convergence.ai · its alternatives →
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Venn.ai▲336Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
Mar 2026 · venn.ai · its alternatives →
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Align API▲87Plug-and-play guardrails for your AI application
2023 · alignapi.com · its alternatives →
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Intercept, protect, and transform AI prompts and responses
Jan 2026 · ctrlpnl.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again. A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applying guardrails to make sure unsafe or off-topic requests don’t get through. You’re clarifying vague…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing Braintrust's latest feature: an AI proxy that lets you use open source models like LLaMa 2 and Mistral, as well as all of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, behind a single interface with caching, security, and API key management built in.
2023 · braintrustdata.com · its alternatives →
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Blocks.ai▲53Launched Blocks.ai today - the control plane and network layer for agents. One outbound connect, zero-trust security, and A2A protocols built in. Connect your agent to any frontend you build or any specialist agents you need regardless of runtime without tons of messy middleware. I work to solve agentic problems with Blocks.ai AMA :)
Jul 2026 · blocks.ai · its alternatives →
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Your agent team, on your machine. Open-source harness for multi-user Claude agents. - yaodub/cast
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An information-flow policy engine for LLM agents.
23d ago · openappa.com · its alternatives →
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CTRL KAI▲14a small AI chatbot, resizable and draggable, that answers with the current webpage in context, free requests with Mistral small, paid for stronger models
2025 · ctrlkai.com · its alternatives →
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TokenVeil▲12Self-hosted AI proxy. Your data never leaves your network.
Jul 2026 · tokenveil.eu · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been developing Portkey Gateway, an open-source AI gateway that's now processing billions of tokens daily across 200+ LLMs. Today, we're launching a significant update: integrated Guardrails at the gateway level. Key technical features: 1. Guardrails as middleware: We've implemented a hooks architecture that allows guardrails to act as middleware in the request/response flow. This enables real-time LLM output evaluation and transformation. 2. Flexible orchestration: The gateway can now route requests based on guardrail verdicts. This allows for complex logic like fallbacks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Runtime firewall for AI coding agents.
Aug 2026 · contextfence.dev · 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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Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue
Aug 2026 · neatproxy.com · its alternatives →
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Agentinel▲18Stop AI agents from installing malicious packages.
Jul 2026 · agentinel.habitwala.in · its alternatives →
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Managed auth and 10,000+ tools across 3,000+ APIs for the agents you’re building — and a secure gateway for the AI tools your company uses.
2012 · apiaxle.com · its alternatives →
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Mitigate the use of unauthorized AI tools
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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aiBlock▲6Blocks useless AI integrations into websites.
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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