AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Factory
Agent-native development on Web, IDE, CLI, Slack and mobile
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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MakersClaw▲418Hire AI employees that live in your Slack, Teams, Telegram
Jun 2026 · makersclaw.com · its alternatives →
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D-ID Agents▲439Create and deploy digital people that work for you
2024 · d-id.com · its alternatives →
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Build no-code agents to target markets untouched by AI
2024 · its alternatives →
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SOTA SWE▲121State of the art AI agent in your VSCode
2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to corbt/agent.exe development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Droidrun▲383Give AI native control of physical & virtual phones.
2025 · droidrun.ai · its alternatives →
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I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Devstral 2▲190SOTA open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent
Dec 2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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Openbasefree▲216Manage your team of AI agents by voice, from anywhere
Jul 2026 · openbase.cloud · its alternatives →
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Build production agents with harness and sandbox
Apr 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
- 11Android CLI▲127
Build high quality Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Apr 2026 · android-developers.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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AgentConnect▲145Tag any agent, wherever work happens.
Aug 2026 · agentconnect.md · its alternatives →
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Hi! I’m Nathan: an ML Engineer at Mozilla.ai: I built agent-of-empires (aoe): a CLI application to help you manage all of your running Claude Code/Opencode sessions and know when they are waiting for you. - Written in rust and relies on tmux for security and reliability - Monitors state of cli sessions to tell you when an agent is running vs idle vs waiting for your input - Manage sessions by naming them, grouping them, configuring profiles for various settings I'm passionate about getting self-hosted open-weight LLMs to be valid options to compete with proprietary closed models. One…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Our team lives in Slack, but we don’t have access to the Slack MCP and couldn’t find anything out there that worked for us, so we coded our own agent-slack CLI * Can paste in Slack URLs * Token efficient * Zero-config (auto auth if you use Slack Desktop) Auto downloads files/snippets. Also can read Slack canvases as markdown! MIT License
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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ADE▲99Use any coding subscription you already pay for, in one synced app that runs on web, desktop, terminal, and mobile. All your chats stay synced between all ade surfaces. Run agents from your laptop, continue the conversation from your phone at dinner, then later finish it off from another computer by simply using the web client. All subs, all in one place. Fully free and open source!
Jul 2026 · ade-app.dev · its alternatives →
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Velane▲95n8n is built for humans dragging nodes on a canvas. That breaks down at B2B scale (embedding in a product, multi-tenant scalability, etc). n8n does have an MCP server so agents can create workflows too, but it outputs raw JSON. That's fine for n8n's engine, but painful for a coding agent (or a human reviewing its output) to read, write, diff, or debug. I'm building an alternative where workflows are authored by a coding agent in [a more dev-legible format] instead of JSON blobs, and execute it at scale.
Jul 2026 · velane.sh · its alternatives →
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DroidCTX▲7Hi HN, I'm Siddarth, co-founder at DrDroid. We build tooling for engineering teams to detect and debug production issues faster. Our product is an always-on autonomous AI agent that listens to alerts, investigates issues and escalates where necessary, before an engineer even picks them up. While building that, we noticed something: our agent debugged issues significantly faster (and more accurately) when it had pre-built context about the infrastructure. Which services exist, which dashboards track what, what the DB schema looks like. Without it, agents spend the first stretch of every…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate boring work. Extensible and free desktop AI agent.
Aug 2026 · agent-one.dev · its alternatives →
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Open-source 2D IDE for managing AI agents in native CLIs, terminal, gits, beads issues, and files across multiple projects and machines. Self-host on a single machine via localhost OR host on a cluster via Tailscale OR connect to app.49agents.com (coming soon) - alpbahadur/49-IDE
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been tinkering with what a “multi-agent IDE” should look like if your day-to-day workflow is mostly in terminal (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.). The more I played with it, the more it collapsed into three fundamentals: * A good TUI: Terminal is the center stage, with other stuff (CodeEdit, Diff, Review) baked on the side. I don’t like piping Agent’s output through some electron wrapper, here you get to run CC/Codex/Droid/Amp/etc directly. * Isolation: agents shouldn’t step on each other’s toes. The simplest primitive I’ve found is Git worktrees. It is not as…
Jan 2026 · agentastic.dev · its alternatives →
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