AI Tool Alternatives

Programmable account and virtual wallets for the agentic Internet, combining stablecoin micropayments, delegated identity, and policy-based spending controls.

MIT agent runtime. Pay model API only. Live Flash peak $0.44/$1.32 per 1M, not the old $0.14/$0.28 row.

Stripe's agent stack: MCP at mcp.stripe.com, installable skills, CLI plugins, token metering, and agentic commerce docs. GitHub repo is stripe/ai.

Coinbase wallet infrastructure for AI agents: TEE-protected keys, spend limits, KYT screening, and x402 payments.

Coinbase CDP toolkit that gives agents wallets and onchain actions on EVM and Solana. Open-source AgentKit, framework-agnostic, still maintained.

Preview MIT agent filesystem on Durable Objects. Not production. Pay Workers usage, not a $0 computer SKU.

A self-custodial wallet for AI agents with immutable spending policies, transaction protection, gas abstraction, and support for autonomous onchain activity.

DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

A non-custodial agent finance layer spanning wallets, fiat onramps, swaps, x402 payments, virtual cards, and multichain automation.

Alibaba Qwen3.8 2.4T MoE with 95B active, 1M context, multimodal input. Coder $0.14/$0.80; 397B $0.29/$1.20.

Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense companion to Qwen3.8-Max: Apache 2.0 license, multimodal image-text input, built for local deployment and small-batch inference.

Deterministic shell hooks in Claude Code. Run commands on edit, stop, and permission events, plus optional prompt-based and HTTP hooks.

Versioned Claude Code bundles of skills, agents, hooks, and MCP. Install from the official marketplace with /plugin or enabledPlugins.

Claude Code skills are SKILL.md packages that extend the agent on demand. Custom slash commands merged into skills; follows the Agent Skills standard.

Specialized Claude Code workers with their own context, tools, and permissions. Use them so research and logs do not flood the main session.

ByteDance's consumer AI assistant. Chat, writing, coding, and Seedance video in one app. Official homepage currently offers Seedance 2.0 for free after login.

Google DeepMind's Veo video model, now presented as Veo 3.1: cinematic video with native audio, plus 1080p and 4K output on the official model page.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna: fast affordable GPT-5.6 tier, 128k context, $1/$6 per 1M tokens.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra: balanced daily driver in the 5.6 family, 400k context, $2.50/$15 per 1M tokens.

OpenAI flagship GPT-6 Astra: 1.05M context, computer-use SOTA, $10/$50 per 1M tokens. API id gpt-6-astra.

Manus is an action engine for slides, sites, design, research, and browser tasks. Official banner: it will soon operate as an independent company again.