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24 alternatives to SwarmWatch – Live view of your coding agents at work

SwarmWatch is an activity monitor and control plane for your AI coding swarms. Works seamlessly across all major coding agents and platforms.

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 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Swarm 5.0▲426

    Keep up & meet up w/ your friends (pre-launch)

    2017 · swarmapp.com · its alternatives →

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    The Swarm▲698

    Relationships. Are. Back.

    2025 · theswarm.com · its alternatives →

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    relaydfree tier, from $5/mo▲101

    I kept missing when my Codex agents finished, so I built relayd — a mobile dashboard that sends push notifications and lets me continue agents from my phone. Free tier available. Would love feedback.

    Jan 2026 · relayd.dev · its alternatives →

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    The visual feedback tool for AI agents

    Mar 2026 · agentation.com · its alternatives →

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    Swarm▲4

    Run 1–10 AI coding agents from one browser tab

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project (Agents Observe) started as an exploration into building automation harnesses around claude code. I needed a way to see exactly what teams of agents were doing in realtime and to filter and search their output. A few interesting learnings from building and using this: - Claude code hooks are blocking - performance degrades rapidly if you have a lot of plugins that use hooks - Hooks provide a lot more useful info than OTEL data - Claude's jsonl files provide the full picture - Lifecycle management of MCP processes started by plugins is a bit kludgy at best The biggest takeaway is…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m a solo developer and built AgentWatch to solve a problem I kept running into while building AI agents: preventing runaway loops and unexpected LLM spend before requests reach the model. AgentWatch sits in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Groq, and others to enforce budgets and runtime policies. I’d really appreciate your feedback. If you’re building AI agents, does this solve a problem you’ve experienced? I’d also love to hear what you’d improve or challenge.

    Jun 2026 · agent-watch.dev · its alternatives →

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    Swarm 4.0▲286

    Compete with friends based on the places you go

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    AgentWatchfree tier, from $4.99/mo▲3

    Monitor and control AI coding agents from your phone

    Jun 2026 · agentwatch.jocoding.io · its alternatives →

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    Runtimefree tier, from $99/mo▲299

    Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on your team

    May 2026 · runtm.com · its alternatives →

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    Swarm▲114

    Exhibition website builder

    2025 · swarm.danilvladimirov.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    AgentPeek▲164

    Your coding agents, in the Mac notch

    Jun 2026 · agentpeek.app · its alternatives →

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    We built an ant colony simulation as an internal hiring challenge at Moment and decided to open it up publicly. You write a program in a custom assembly-like (we call it ant-ssembly) instruction set that controls 200 ants. Each ant can sense nearby cells (food, pheromones, home, other ants) but has no global view. The only coordination mechanism is pheromone trails, which ants can emit and sense them, but that's it. Your program runs identically on every ant. The goal is to collect the highest percentage of food across a set of maps. Different map layouts (clustered food, scattered,…

    Mar 2026 · dev.moment.com · its alternatives →

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    A visualization tool that replays coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase. - cosmtrek/mindwalk

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An AI agent rewriting your codebase looks like scrolling text in a terminal. Agent Monitor shows you what it

    Feb 2026 · agentmonitor.io · its alternatives →

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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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    Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    No-code marketplace for multi-AI agent workflows.

    May 2026 · swarmseller.com · its alternatives →

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    Some time ago I built a simple app to run swarms of coding agents — I call it fleet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256389). It's based on centralized beads with a Python orchestrator and can run any coder (Claude, agy, Codex). Recently I added a UI to manage the whole agent lifecycle: adding new tasks, monitoring running ones, and a chat interface built on MCP with a centralized SQLite DB. From the UI I can spawn agents to run in any directory, define dependencies on other tasks, and specify which coder/model should do the job. Today I can run 10–15 agents…

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Visual debugging, tracing, and replay for agent workflows

    Apr 2026 · agenticlens.in · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've recently been finding productivity in running parallel CLI coding agents(after not believing in them initially). After having to do a ton of git stashing and branch fumbling, I decided I needed to something to more ergonomically run these agents in their own dedicated spaces. I tried a lot of the existing products but they either were too convoluted or flat out didn't work. Some of them also seem to roll their own chat UI which I don't think is the right approach, I wanted to something to lightly wrap my terminal sessions. So I built FleetCode! It uses git worktrees and let's you…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your Company Agentic Operating System. Contribute to desplega-ai/agent-swarm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A local control plane for AI coding agents

    May 2026 · agentrail.app · its alternatives →

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