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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to vaelth

The local-dev proxy your AI agents can drive

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.

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    Proxy 1.0▲718

    Your AI Assistant that actually gets things done

    2025 · convergence.ai · its alternatives →

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    CtrlAI▲104

    Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy AI-generated apps to your own server with one command. Open source, sandboxed, automatic HTTPS. Built for non-engineers.

    Apr 2026 · openberth.io · its alternatives →

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    Private Telegram AI agents, live in under a minute

    Apr 2026 · deploy-hermes.com · its alternatives →

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    Props AI▲133

    Monitor & monetize your LLM applications

    2024 · getprops.ai · its alternatives →

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    Agent Sandboxfree tier, from $0.00025/mo▲97

    Your agent's personal remote computer and drive

    Feb 2026 · agentsandbox.co · its alternatives →

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    Local▲107

    Super excited to launch our new app Local today. What we’ve learned at Base Compute over the last months is that running AI directly on your laptop or workstation gives you maximum privacy and it’s free, but it’s also a massive headache to configure. So we’ve decided what matters is making the experience completely frictionless for users. Local analyses the hardware of your laptop, optimises the AI for it, and recommends the best models for your specific device. It let’s you do what you’re doing with cloud AI already, just for free and on your own machine: Chatting with PDF’s, Recording and…

    Aug 2026 · basecompute.co · its alternatives →

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    Automate Complex Workflows with AI Agents

    2025 · proxy.convergence.ai · its alternatives →

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    Kept▲104

    Your AI chats, saved as Markdown locally with no cloud

    May 2026 · kept.work · its alternatives →

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    Get paid when AI agents need someone in the real world.

    Feb 2026 · rentahuman.ai · its alternatives →

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    Willow▲31

    Own your personal AI agent. Runs locally.

    Jul 2026 · willowai.app · its alternatives →

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    Secure credential proxy for AI agents

    Mar 2026 · agentkeys.io · its alternatives →

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    The future runs local.

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Tunnels & webhooks for you and your AI agents

    Jul 2026 · otterkit.com · its alternatives →

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    The only way to go fast is full YOLO mode in your coding agent. I've got the local sandbox figured out (pro tip: Incus VMs work great) but I wanted to keep my agents from doing things like inadvertently blowing up my cloud services or chasing a prompt to POST to some random website. I struggle most with this on my side projects where my permission model isn't quite as robust as it is at the office. I started with a firewall on the Incus container but every time the agent needed access to something new, I was poking more holes in it - and it didn't differentiate between HTTP verbs. I've been…

    Jul 2026 · trollbridge.dev · its alternatives →

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    AI API security proxy

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Aether▲26

    Since coding agents like Claude Code and Codex came out, I've been pretty obsessed with them. It's hard not to when you're getting a 20x discount on inference. I've also been frustrated by them a lot. I hated walking around with my laptop lid open while connected to a hotspot on my phone, having to tediously accept commands so I don't lose my root directory, and running out of RAM when running multiple agents that were spinning up dev servers in different worktrees at once. A lot of people would say existing cloud agents are the solution to this, as none of the above problems apply to any…

    Jul 2026 · runaether.dev · its alternatives →

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    AI that actually controls your Windows/Mac desktop - clicks, types, automates workflows across any application. Native OS integration, not cloud APIs. Built this because I was tired of AI that could only chat. Free tier (Gemini) + paid tier (Claude) for reliable automation. The AI can automate complex workflows, manage files/emails, control browsers and native apps. Just launched 2 weeks ago. What workflows would you want automated?

    2025 · aioscompanion.com · its alternatives →

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    Credential proxy so AI agents never see secrets

    Aug 2026 · vultrino.com · its alternatives →

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    Rein▲2

    Control your AI agents from your pocket

    Jul 2026 · rein.build · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted AI proxy. Your data never leaves your network.

    Jul 2026 · tokenveil.eu · its alternatives →

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    We built two desktop apps for developers and data scientists who want AI assistance without subscription lock-in or API proxying, or to run against local models. - Calliope AI IDE: VSCode-based, full dev environment with AI chat, live coding, and autonomous agents - Calliope AI Lab: JupyterLab under the hood, with built-in AI chat and local Postgres Both free. No account. No login. BYOK (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Ollama). How it's different from Cursor/Continue/Windsurf/Antigravity: Your API keys stay local. Requests go direct to providers – we don't route through…

    Dec 2025 · calliope.ai · its alternatives →

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    Automate tasks with local LLMs, offline.

    May 2026 · librixsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, nice to meet you and I am a newcomer of HN. I have made a binary tool Aih that could communicate with Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama(HuggingChat) from the terminal. https://github.com/Databingo/aih Since CAPTCHA challenges and bots detecting have become increasingly difficult, I've changed my strategy from hacking the APIs to simulating a real browser's action. The tool first takes the logged-in cookies of Google, ChatGPT, Claude, and HuggingChat accounts from the real Chrome browser, then it opens an invisible instance of Chromium for communication, then…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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