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24 alternatives to Reka Edge

Hi HN, We built something new! It is an AI agent that can: - iterate through up to a dozen sources (web or GDrive) - reason between hops in natural language (exposed in the trace) - generate structured JSON so downstream code can consume results deterministically It not only delivers state-of-the-art performance on both SimpleQA and Reka Research-Eval, but also shatters the notion that cutting-edge AI must come at a premium, being significantly more affordable than alternatives. Tech stack highlights - Base model: Reka Flash 3.1 (trained from scratch, post-trained with RL on verifiable…

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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    Hey HN, We are Winston, Edward, and James, and we built Meka Agent, an open-source framework that lets vision-based LLMs execute tasks directly on a computer, just like a person would. Backstory: In the last few months, we've been building computer-use agents that have been used by various teams for QA testing, but realized that the underlying browsing frameworks aren't quite good enough yet. As such, we've been working on a browsing agent. We achieved 72.7% on WebArena compared to the previous state of the art set by OpenAI's new ChatGPT agent at 65.4%. You can read more about it here:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Reka Research: Knowledge Made Accessible

    2025 · app.reka.ai · its alternatives →

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    MoE vision-language, now easier to access

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ship AI agents like web apps, in minutes.

    Jun 2026 · pages.edgeone.ai · its alternatives →

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    GenAI powered search for your app and website

    2024 · devrev.ai · its alternatives →

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    Intelligence Made Visible

    2025 · reka.ai · its alternatives →

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    Rerun▲301

    The easiest way to build AI agents for all your tasks

    Jul 2026 · rerun.build · its alternatives →

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    Skillkit▲252

    It's an open-source project that lets you create, translate, and work with multiple agents at the same time, and more.

    Feb 2026 · agenstskills.com · its alternatives →

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    The open-source era of 1M context intelligence

    Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    KREV▲257

    AI creative agents for ecommerce brands

    Apr 2026 · krev.ai · its alternatives →

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    The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol. Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day. A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship…

    Mar 2026 · georgelarson.me · 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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    No one’s got money for another AI subscription. So we made our browser agent totally FREE. What's the catch? Just ads while Retriever AI fetches you leads, does your exams, applied to jobs, and sends connection requests. Think like a Claude Code or Clay level tool in your browser, but free for everyone! After 35K+ users and 7M+ workflows, we spent the last few months attacking the cost of every agent step: - switching to DeepSeek Flash - Code Mode to one shot complex workflows - optimizing for 80%+ token cache hits So that now just an ad impression covers the entire cost of the agent (LLM…

    2025 · rtrvr.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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    I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it. * Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily. * Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings. * Populate info from clients you control. I wanted…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your AI-Powered Coding Partner for Windows

    Feb 2026 · rekall-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    AI agents can generate code, but still struggle to understand what they build. Reticle brings Jev-style machine-native runtime perception to web & desktop applications. - reticlehq/reticle

    2d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Craft AI-Powered Agent-Based Workflows in Minutes!

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    I'm one of the creators of The Edge Agent (TEA). We built this because we needed a way to deploy agents that was verifiable and robust enough for production/edge cases, moving away from loose scripts. The architecture aims to solve critical gaps in deterministic orchestration identified by *Prof. Claudionor Coelho Jr. (Stanford alum, ML/DL Faculty at Santa Clara Univ., and Senior Fellow for AI at Majestic Labs)* during our work on the Kiroku project. *Key Technical Features:* * *Neurosymbolic Native:* We integrated Prolog to logically validate LLM outputs. This combines neural…

    Jan 2026 · fabceolin.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Alex and Zack from Nexa AI here. We are excited to share a project our team has been passionately working on recently, in collaboration with Jiajun from Meta, Qun from San Francisco State University, and Xin and Qi from the University of North Texas. Running AI models on edge devices is becoming increasingly important. It's cost-effective, ensures privacy, offers low-latency responses, and allows for customization. Plus, it's always available, even offline. What's really exciting is that smaller-scale models are now approaching the performance of large-scale closed-source models for…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hika▲31

    AI search for deeper thinking, not just find answers

    2024 · hika.fyi · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! When implementing an AI-powered feature for a project, we—and many people we've talked to—often reach a point where we have to choose an AI model but aren’t sure which one best fits our constraints or where to even start. Unfortunately, the advice to "just use chatgpt" is not always a good one. What if I want an open-source model? What languages does it support? What about context window size or the number of parameters? There are thousands of AI models already out there and many of them are perfect for certain problems. That’s why we’ve carved out this part of our product as a free…

    2024 · app.elementera.ca · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Alex and Zack here from Nexa AI. We're excited to share something we've been working on. Our journey began with the Octopus series --- action models for mobile AI agents (https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/Octopus-v2). We focused on making sub-billion parameter models excel at function calling, making high accurate and fast function-calling possible on mobile and edge devices. But as we delved into developing full-fledged on-device applications, we hit a roadblock. We realized that optimizing for function calling (tool-use) alone wasn't enough. Building powerful…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Automated research is the next big step in AI, with companies like OpenAI aiming to debut a fully automated researcher by 2028 (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/20/1134438/openai-i...). However, there is a very real possibility that much of this corporate research will remain closed to the general public. To counter this, we spent the last month building Enlidea---a machine-to-machine ecosystem for open research. It's a decentralized research hub where autonomous agents propose hypotheses, stake bounties, execute code, and perform automated…

    Mar 2026 · enlidea.com · its alternatives →

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