AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Velvet
Make everyone a data engineer
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Velvet launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1
- 2
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 →
- 3
- 4
Hey, I'm Marc one of the co-founders of Fabi! We've all seen the "chat with your data" or the "AI-as-an-assistant" when building reports, but we felt like this wasn't quite right. So we decided to build a system that allowed users to: * Connect any data source to the AI * Purely chat with the AI and their data (so we show the output right in the chat before you even apply the changes) * Convert that chat to a repeatable analysis with a data app or workflow * Toggle back to chat mode without missing a beat Basically this means that if you're a data person, you don't have to go through these…
2025 · fabi.ai · its alternatives →
- 5
- 6
The fastest way to build your data warehouse
2023 · weld.app · its alternatives →
- 7
- 8
Hi HN, We're Luke and Phillip, and we're building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable runtime, built in Rust and powered by Apache DataFusion to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse or data lake. Phillip and I first introduced Spice on Show HN in September 2021. Since then, we’ve been schooled and humbled in every way building 100TB+ data and ML systems for the https://spice.ai cloud platform. Along with our customers, we struggled with getting fast, low-latency, high-concurrency SQL query within a budget, accessing and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9
GemmaStat▲33Stop hiring analysts . Start deploying AI agents
Jan 2026 · salusgemmalabs.com · its alternatives →
- 10
Ascend.io▲149Advanced AI for building & running agentic data & workflows
2025 · ascend.io · its alternatives →
- 11
Ask data anything, charts, KPIs and insights in seconds
2023 · its alternatives →
- 12
The AI agent for synthetic data generation
Nov 2025 · tonic.ai · its alternatives →
- 13
Ask Viable▲185Transform feedback into PRDs, FAQs, reports & more in mins
2023 · askviable.com · its alternatives →
- 14
Make your AI-native products Better
2023 · tryalign.ai · its alternatives →
- 15
- 16
- 17
queryinside▲134Powerful AI-based data searching and system monitoring tool
2025 · queryinside.com · its alternatives →
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
Make machine learning work for you, not the other way around
2022 · amazonasweb.ro · its alternatives →
- 24
Hi HN! I'm Nicolas, co-founder of Lume, a seed-stage startup (https://www.lume.ai/). At Lume, we use AI to automatically transform your source data into any desired target schema in seconds, making onboarding client data or integrating with new systems take seconds rather than days or weeks. In other words, we use AI to automatically map data between any two data schemas, and output the transformed data to you. We are live with customers and are just beginning to open up our product to more prospects. Although we do not have a sandbox yet, here is a video walkthrough of how…
2023 · lume.ai · its alternatives →
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →