Find alternatives to popular AI assistants

Town suits people who want an assistant with its own email address. Other products offer voice calls, wider knowledge work, autonomous projects or shared company context.

Viktor gives Slack and Microsoft Teams users a hosted agent with broad tool access. The alternatives below cover private personal help, knowledge search, defined automation and self-managed infrastructure.

Manus runs complex work inside a cloud sandbox and charges through credits. Other products focus on daily continuity, cited research, software engineering, team projects or self-managed agents.

Perplexity Computer coordinates several models for research and production workflows. These alternatives cover desktop file work, daily assistance, company knowledge, local control and app-specific help.

Claude Cowork suits focused file and document work inside the Claude desktop app. Other products offer recurring assistance, self-managed agents, web research or shared team workspaces.

OpenClaw gives technical users broad channel support and control over a self-hosted agent. The alternatives range from managed assistants to lighter runtimes and developer frameworks.

Hermes Agent gives developers control over models, backends and self-managed execution. These alternatives include hosted assistants, broader channel products and frameworks for specific development stacks.