Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to iAsk
The smarter assistant
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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. iAsk launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, We are Sandeep and Naresh, the creators of Aide. We are happy to open source and invite the community to try out Aide which is a VSCode fork built with LLMs integrated. To talk through the features, we engineered the following: - A proactive agent Agent which iterates on the linter errors (powered by the Language Server) and pulls in relevant context by doing go-to-definitions, go-to-references etc and propose fixes or ask for more files which might be missing in the context. - Developer control We encourage you to do edits on top of your coding sessions. To enable this, we built a…
2024 · aide.dev · its alternatives →
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C1 by Thesys▲629Make AI apps respond with interactive UI in real-time
2025 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →
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AI Assistant▲455A simple Go package for unified AI chat management across OpenRouter, OpenAI, Google GenAI, and more, with support for tool calling and S3-compatible user sessions
2023 · aichat.fm · its alternatives →
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Evidently AIfree▲382Open-source evaluations and observability for LLM apps
2024 · evidentlyai.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! This is Tim from AnythingLLM (https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm). AnythingLLM is an open-source desktop assistant that brings together RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), agents, embeddings, vector databases, and more—all in one seamless package. We built AnythingLLM over the last year iterating and iterating from user feedback. Our primary mission is to enable people with a layperson understanding of AI to be able to use AI with little to no setup for either themselves, their jobs, or just to try out using AI as an assistant but with *privacy by…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Combine the best AI/LLMs to build your Custom ChatGPT
2023 · edenai.co · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bring reliable AI virtual assistants to your app
2024 · scoopika.com · its alternatives →
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Aggregate uptime monitoring across OpenAI, Claude, and more
Apr 2026 · tools.lamatic.ai · its alternatives →
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MakeHub.ai▲118LLM Provider arbitrage to get the best performance for the $
2025 · makehub.ai · its alternatives →
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Libby▲89The intelligent knowledge assistant for Workplace by FB
2018 · getflip.com · its alternatives →
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Personal knowledge space
2020 · aws.dendron.so · its alternatives →
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OmniChat ▲11A universal API for LLMs to build smarter apps.
2024 · tryomni.chat · its alternatives →
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Promptly▲13An AI Cost Optimization Infrastructure for LLM Applications
Mar 2026 · getpromptly.in · its alternatives →
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BrowserAI▲20Open source SDK: Run LLMs directly in browser with 3 lines
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Finally a tool for training specialist LLMs. Fully open-source. Add documents and click a button. Augmentoolkit is a production-ready way to train AI subject matter experts. It lets you update an LLM's knowledge cutoff and put new facts into its brain, without any retrival needed. You can then do reinforcement learning to improve its performance in any task you can imagine. It includes: - Factual finetuning: A massive data pipeline which, given some documents, will automatically generate training data that teaches an LLM the facts inside. It also handles training for you. - Data generation…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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