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24 alternatives to Reagent – graph based framework for building AI agent with UI

Hey HN! I'm excited to share Reagent, an open source Javascript framework to build UI rich AI agents using graph based workflow. Github: https://github.com/reagentai/reagent There are already amazing tools for building agents but most of them seem to be focused on building the AI workflow on the backend with markdown as final output. There is generative UI in AI SDK from vercel but it seems to work only with server components afaik. So, I created a framework for building AI agents with interactive UI components; you can render any component from LLM tool, update it's…

Reagent is an open-source JavaScript framework for building AI agents with interactive user interfaces using graph-based workflows. Instead of backend-only processing with markdown output, it lets developers render UI… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reagent – graph based framework for building AI agent with UI launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Browser-based AI agents - unlimited runs, fixed cost

    2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Title: Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app Hi HN, I'm building PageAgent, an open-source (MIT) library that embeds an AI agent directly into your frontend. I built this because I believe there's a massive design space for deploying general agents natively inside the web apps we already use, rather than treating the web merely as a dumb target for isolated bots. Currently, most AI agents operate from external clients or server-side programs, effectively leaving web development out of the AI ecosystem. I'm experimenting with an "inside-out" paradigm instead. By…

    Mar 2026 · alibaba.github.io · its alternatives →

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    OpenAgents - The collaboration OS for AI agents. Contribute to openagents-org/openagents development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · open-agents.dev · its alternatives →

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    Build AI agents that respond with UI instead of text

    Feb 2026 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →

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    VoltAgent▲162

    Hi HN, I'm founder of VoltAgent, a new open-source TypeScript-based framework for building AI agents. We know there are many frameworks out there. Our short story of why we built VoltAgent goes like this: We were developing an AI application ourselves. Initially, we tried existing frameworks. We also explored different flows using no-code tools. We noticed something interesting: the visual approach of tools like n8n made AI workflows much clearer and easier to understand. Building flows visually was neat and provided great visibility. However, we quickly ran into problems with no-code tools:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Backend and Frontend for your AI Agents

    2025 · xpander.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build AI-powered Agents -- in Minutes

    2025 · langflow.org · its alternatives →

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    The fastest way to design & build a website with AI

    2023 · relume.ai · its alternatives →

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    Data visualizations are the bridge between user and data. But building AI agents that can generate visualizations reliably can be very tricky: - simple chart specs can be reliable, but generated charts are often of low quality due to reliance on system defaults; - complex chart specs with explicit details can produce good-looking charts, but they are verbose and agents can struggle with reliability We figured out it is a limitation on the language issue (not just AI capability thing) -- current visualization languages are a bit too low-level for AI agents, requiring them to explicitly make…

    Jul 2026 · microsoft.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Build design, and ship anything AI fast in one flow

    2025 · replit.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we’re Sam, Shane, and Abhi, and we’re building Mastra (https://mastra.ai), an open-source JavaScript SDK for building agents on top of Vercel’s AI SDK. You can start a Mastra project with `npm create mastra` and create workflow graphs that can suspend/resume, build a RAG pipeline and write evals, give agents memory, create multi-agent workflows, and view it all in a local playground. Previously, we built Gatsby, the open-source React web framework. Later, we worked on an AI-powered CRM but it felt like we were having to roll all the AI bits (agentic workflows, evals,…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Emergent▲582

    Advanced AI app builder that ships full-stack apps

    2025 · app.emergent.sh · its alternatives →

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    Flowise▲258

    Build AI agents, visually

    2025 · flowiseai.com · its alternatives →

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    Transforms ideas into fully-functional apps

    2024 · docs.replit.com · its alternatives →

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    Pixelagent — Multimodal stateful agents. Contribute to pixeltable/pixelagent development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build AI browser agents in plain english

    2025 · skyvern.com · its alternatives →

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    Build AI agents. Share org-wide. 100+ Tools&MCP

    2025 · docs.zencoder.ai · its alternatives →

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    Generative AI powered Master Agent Developer Framework

    2023 · floatbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    The shadcn/ui component library for building AI-native apps

    2025 · elements.ai-sdk.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I've been working on an open-source framework for creating AI agents that evolve, communicate, and collaborate to solve complex tasks. The Evolving Agents Framework allows agents to: Reuse, evolve, or create new agents dynamically based on semantic similarity Communicate and delegate tasks to other specialized agents Continuously improve by learning from past executions Define workflows in YAML, making it easy to orchestrate agent interactions Search for relevant tools and agents using OpenAI embeddings Support multiple AI frameworks (BeeAI, etc.) Current Status & Roadmap This is…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We’ve been building browser agents for a while. In production, we kept converging on the same pattern: deterministic scripts for the happy path, agents only for edge cases. So we built Demonstrate Mode. The idea is simple: You perform your workflow once in a remote browser. Notte records the interactions and generates deterministic automation code. How it works: - Record clicks, inputs, navigations in a cloud browser - Compile them into deterministic code (no LLM at runtime) - Run and deploy on managed browser infrastructure Closest analog is Playwright codegen but: - Infrastructure…

    2025 · notte.cc · its alternatives →

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    Today we are launching YourGPT 2.0, an update focused on making support, sales, and operational workflows work together more smoothly in one system. This release improves how workflows are built, how the platform connects to external tools, and how context is maintained across long, multi-channel interactions. AI Studio now makes it much easier to create and refine workflows. You can describe the process you want in natural language and the system generates the full workflow for you. It can also help debug issues by showing what happened at each step and explaining where things went off…

    Nov 2025 · yourgpt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Velane▲95

    n8n 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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    Open-source runtime for durable AI agents

    May 2026 · orkes.io · its alternatives →

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