AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Vela — Meet, Chat & Vibe
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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 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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Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…
2024 · recurse.chat · its alternatives →
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Meta AI App▲266Create and chat with AI in Instagram, Messenger & WhatsApp
2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Nayla▲190The all-in-one AI browser & workspace that works for you
2025 · nayla.ai · its alternatives →
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A simple mobile web app inspired by Fuzzy-Search/realtime-bakllava that uses llama.cpp server backend with multimodal mode to describe and narrate what the phone camera sees. I built this thing in a few hours using a single ChatGPT thread to generate most things for me and iterate on this project. Here's the workflow: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea84ec69-5617-45e8-8772-ac2dcf...
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this! I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beni AI▲78Hi HN, I built Beni (https://thebeni.ai ), a web app for real-time video calls with an AI companion. The idea started as a pretty simple question: text chatbots are everywhere, but they rarely feel present. I wanted something closer to a call, where the character actually reacts in real time (voice, timing, expressions), not just “type, wait, reply”. Beni is basically: A Live2D avatar that animates during the call (expressions + motion driven by the conversation) Real-time voice conversation (streaming response, not “wait 10 seconds then speak”) Long-term memory so the character…
Feb 2026 · thebeni.ai · its alternatives →
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Verlyfree tier, from $29.99/mo▲37AI agents that resolve customer support across channels
Feb 2026 · verlyai.xyz · its alternatives →
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AI chatbot that adapts, educates, entertains & inspires
2023 · sassyluna.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing RBAC for AI-Powered Apps on Postgres/Others
2025 · vela-access.app · its alternatives →
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Soulmaite IO ▲16Enjoy AI-driven virtual relationships & real conversations
2025 · soulmaite.io · its alternatives →
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VelAI▲1Smart AI assistant with real web search & image generation
May 2026 · vel-ai.net · its alternatives →
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Loqara▲12AI chat and voice agents that turn conversations into sales
Jul 2026 · loqara.com · its alternatives →
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Ai-communicate, because your words matter
2025 · vedspaceai.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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AI companions that remember, evolve, and feel personal
Aug 2026 · velineai.com · its alternatives →
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