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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Firetower

Run coding agents on your own servers, from anywhere

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 4 we have checked on their own sites, 4 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Runtimefree tier, from $99/mo▲303

    Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on your team

    May 2026 · runtm.com · its alternatives →

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    The shared workspace for humans and coding agents

    3d ago · boringinfra.company · its alternatives →

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    Replicas▲239

    Hey HN! I'm Connor, creator of Replicas. I'm a heavy Codex/Claude Code user, and I wanted to hand off tasks to agents like I would to an engineer - kick something off before work, let it scaffold while I'm at lunch, even come back to a ready PR. The problem: existing alternatives use workspace VMs that are black boxes. I have no access to any of them - they can't run tests, read logs, or use tools like the Playwright MCP (which I use to verify agents actually fixed what they claim to fix). Replicas gives agents real cloud workspaces where they can: - Run your test suite and read the…

    Jun 2026 · replicas.dev · its alternatives →

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    Grovefree tier, from $5/mo▲101

    One terminal for you and your AI agent

    Sep 2026 · grove.publishstudio.one · its alternatives →

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    Polylanefree tier, from $80/mo▲191

    AI Agent that monitors your code so you're not on call

    3d ago · polylane.com · its alternatives →

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    Put Codex or Claude Code on your own cloud machine

    5d ago · codexremote.io · its alternatives →

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    hob▲91

    The professional workspace for your whole agent stack

    23d ago · hob.dev · its alternatives →

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    M9R▲56

    Multiplayer space for your AI coding agents and teams

    15d ago · app.m9r.workers.dev · its alternatives →

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    Run your guild in one place, inside Discord

    15d ago · guildmanager.app · its alternatives →

  10. 10SC
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    Run and supervise teams of coding agents from planning to merge. Any harness (Claude code, codex, +25 more). Desktop, web, mobile, and cloud agents. - Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator

    Aug 2026 · aoagents.dev · its alternatives →

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  14. 14CW

    2015 · coding.net · its alternatives →

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    ClawCloudfree▲8

    Each agent runs on its own cloud computer/isolated container

    Feb 2026 · runlobster.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16AO
  17. 17DB
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    Your coding agents, untethered.

    Mar 2026 · agentcompanion.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21PA
  22. 22SC
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    Self-hosted control plane for your fleet of coding agents

    Aug 2026 · sagewright.dev · its alternatives →

  24. 24FT

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