AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Vela - Access Control for the AI Era
Introducing RBAC for AI-Powered Apps on Postgres/Others
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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VELA▲74Securely execute AI-generated & untrusted code
Jun 2026 · vela-secure.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - hasura/graphql-engine
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hasura delivers accurate, fast, and secure data access for AI and digital experiences. Trusted by data leaders and developers at Fortune 100 companies and high-growth AI and digital natives.
2017 · hasura.io · its alternatives →
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Vela OS▲691KuzuDB was archived in 2025. Vela Partners — a leading quant VC — forked it with concurrent writes for multi-agent AI. Benchmarks: 374x faster than Neo4j.
2024 · vela.partners · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’re Emma and Chris, founders of Velvet (https://www.usevelvet.com). Velvet proxies OpenAI calls and stores the requests and responses in your PostgreSQL database. That way, you can analyze logs with SQL (instead of a clunky UI). You can also set headers to add caching and metadata (for analysis). Backstory: We started by building some more general AI data tools (like a text-to-SQL editor). We were frustrated by the lack of basic LLM infrastructure, so ended up pivoting to focus on the tooling we wanted. So many existing apps, like Helicone, were hard to use as power…
2024 · usevelvet.com · its alternatives →
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SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Venn.ai▲336Delegate real work to AI agents with safety guardrails
Mar 2026 · venn.ai · its alternatives →
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Tracciafree tier, from $99/mo▲197AI applications are becoming agents, which has started to take autonomous decisions. There are plenty of tools and platform available to trace, and observe what an agent or llms calls does. They are good in what they do, but tracing and observability isnt enough for AI agents era. We need a solution that can help you observe, evaluate, create run time policies to govern and finally audit the actions of the agent. We built Traccia to solve this problem. The good part, all of these can be achieved by just writing few lines of code. Traccia has an open-sourced sdk that can work with your…
Aug 2026 · traccia.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Jiasheng, co-creator of ZenStack. Access control usually ends up scattered across app code instead of living with the data model — and that's riskier when the code is written by an agent, since it's easy to ship a query with a missing or incomplete authorization check. ZenStack enforces policy (RBAC/ABAC/relation-based) directly at the ORM layer, on top of Kysely, so every query gets checked the same way regardless of who wrote it and who is calling it. Postgres RLS is an option too, but it's hard to maintain and scale, and it's Postgres-only — ZenStack's approach is…
Jul 2026 · zenstack.framer.website · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - I'm Venkat, founder of Stayflexi (YC), CMU CS grad and Ex-Oracle Query Engine team (patents in core databases) DeepSQL started as an internal tool to stop our own databases from becoming the bottleneck they were becoming (13,000+ hotels in production). It worked well enough that we're releasing it. DeepSQL is an AI agent that operates a database the way a senior DBA and Data Engineer would 1. Fixes slow queries (we cutdown DB spend by 4x) 2. Fixes DB bloat (blocks unnecessary schema changes, in vibecoded setup) 2. BI dashboards(we removed spend on tableau, retool and appsmith) 3.…
Jul 2026 · deepsql.ai · its alternatives →
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Trigger serverless functions on database events.
2018 · hasura.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We are Zain and Ashish, founders of Vanna AI. We recently embarked on an experiment to see if large language models (specifically LLMs) could help in generating SQL queries for real-world datasets. We initially started this project as a web app but realized that it was most useful and had broadest applicability as a Python package since you can then incorporate it into an existing workflow (Jupyter notebook, Slackbot, etc). We've had some good success with customer datasets but we've generally heard a lot of skepticism so we decided to write a paper about the methodology we're using…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postquel▲70A fast, native PostgreSQL client for macOS, with an AI assistant that uses the Claude Code, Codex or Cursor account already on your Mac.
18d ago · frizky.dev · its alternatives →
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Open-source security gateway & static scanner for AI agents. Enforce role-based access control (RBAC), human-in-the-loop approvals, segregation of duties, and cryptographically signed, offline-verifiable audit logs. - makerchecker/MakerChecker
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Polygres▲58Polygres turns the Postgres you already run into internal search for AI agents. Rows, relationships, and embeddings: one hybrid query, one ranked answer.
Jul 2026 · polygres.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Been hacking on a simple way to run agents entirely inside of a Postgres database, "an agent per row". Things you could build with this: * Your own agent orchestrator * A personal assistant with time travel * (more things I can't think of yet) Not quite there yet but thought I'd share it in its current state.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI-Powered Database Management For PostgreSQL
Jun 2026 · psqlcarbon.com · its alternatives →
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