Agents & Automation

Skywork alternatives

Explore 8 options alongside Skywork (Kunlun Tech), a product in Agents & Automation.

Candidates share an existing guide group, a comparison, or specific tags within the same category. This shortlist is not a ranking or a test result.

Devin

Listed together in guide “AI agents and automation”

Autonomous AI software engineer that plans and completes end-to-end development tasks in its own sandboxed workspace.

Paid

Use cases

  • Clearing well-scoped tickets and bug fixes autonomously
  • Code migrations and dependency upgrades
  • Prototyping features that engineers then review and refine

Pricing: Devin is a paid product with subscription plans; usage is metered by agent working time.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Manus

Editorial suggestion — not a checked fact

General-purpose autonomous AI agent that runs multi-step tasks and now ships as Manus 2.0 with its own cloud computer.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Research reports compiled from many web sources
  • Data collection, cleaning, and analysis tasks
  • Generating documents, slide decks, and simple sites end to end

Pricing: A free tier with daily credits is available; paid plans add more credits and concurrent tasks. Manus Flex lets paid users run the workspace on their own API key, and there are separate Team and API offerings.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

AutoGPT

Listed together in guide “AI agents and automation”

Open-source framework for building and running autonomous AI agents that chain tasks toward a goal.

Open (open weights/source) MIT (classic) / Polyform Shield (platform)

Use cases

  • Automating multi-step research and web tasks
  • Experimenting with autonomous agent design
  • Building custom agents without heavy coding

Pricing: Self-hosting the core is free under the repository's license terms; the hosted cloud platform is a paid subscription with usage credits and no free tier.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

goose

Listed together in guide “AI agents and automation”

Open-source, extensible AI agent from Block that runs on your machine as a desktop app, CLI, and API, using any LLM and MCP extensions.

Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0

Use cases

  • Local coding, research, and automation without a locked-in cloud agent
  • Connecting internal tools through MCP servers
  • Running an open agent in CI or custom distributions

Pricing: goose itself is free and open source under Apache-2.0. Usage cost depends on the model provider you configure, including free local models.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

Activepieces

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Workspace combining AI agents, visual flows, tables and application connections.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Combine agents and automation flows in one workspace
  • Route support triage, invoice intake and lead handling through flows

Pricing: Free lists 1,000 monthly credits and up to five users. Paid plans add credits and controls; own model keys, overage pricing and self-hosted enterprise options have separate terms.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

Agenta

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Team workspace for creating AI coworkers and scheduled or event-triggered automations through chat.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Hobby gives 75 daily free credits on up to 10 days per month, plus a one-time 500-credit signup bonus. Starter is USD 29 per month with 2900 credits; credits cover included models and runtime, and paid plans do not charge per seat.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

Agentforce

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Salesforce's enterprise AI agent platform for building, testing, and running autonomous agents across service, sales, and employee workflows.

Paid

Use cases

  • Always-on customer service that resolves cases and escalates when needed
  • Sales development agents that answer product questions and book meetings
  • Employee support agents that automate routine internal tasks

Pricing: Salesforce customers can start with Agentforce through Salesforce Foundations. Paid options include Flex Credits, resolutions, and per-user licensing.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-04.

Agno

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Agent SDK and AgentOS runtime for combining agents into durable services, teams and workflows.

Open (open weights/source)

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Self-hosting the open-source project and buying the hosted platform are separate choices. The hosted service has its own plans and usage limits; self-hosting still requires infrastructure and any model-provider charges.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

Switching to Manus

Editorial suggestion — not a checked fact

Choose it when: You want a general agent that also operates a browser and its own cloud workspace, not only one that produces office deliverables.

What changes: Prompts and reference files carry over; agent runs and saved deliverables do not.

What you give up: Tasks execute in the vendor's cloud workspace, so data handling depends on that hosted environment.

Switching to Genspark

Editorial suggestion · cites a checked fact

Choose it when: The output you need is research-backed documents, slides and sheets from a tool that started as an answer engine.

What changes: Prompts transfer; credits and saved deliverables do not.

What you give up: Paid tiers are credit-based, and Genspark publishes its plan prices in USD on its help centre — Free $0; Plus $24.99/month, or $19.99/month billed annually at $239.99/year; Pro $249.99/month, or $199.99/month billed annually at $2,399.99/year; Team $35 per seat/month; Enterprise custom (annual figures are monthly equivalents, not month-to-month rates). An earlier /pricing route returned HTTP 403; that is recorded as an observation, with no cause asserted. The help-centre page that states these prices is readable.

Evidence: Verified 2026-10-13 Genspark — 24.99 USD/month Applies to: Plus plan billed monthly; from 10,000 monthly credits and 50 GB of AI Drive storage www.genspark.ai ↗

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