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Alternatives to Cerbos
Cerbos: Authorization service that lets engineering teams define access policies in one place and check permissions for users and AI agents. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 13 have a free plan.
- Archestra
An open-source gateway between AI agents and company systems that enforces identity, tool policies and audit logs.
Since 2025
Security and passwords · Developers
- DashClaw
Holds risky actions from unattended AI coding agents until someone approves them from a dashboard or phone, and logs each decision.
Since 2026
Free trial · Security and passwords · Developers
- Preloop
Open-source gateway that tracks spend, sets budgets and requires approvals for AI coding agents and their tool calls.
Since 2026
Free · Security and passwords · Developers
- SigmaShake
Checks each tool call from AI coding agents against your rules and blocks or rewrites risky ones before they run.
Since 2026
Subscription · Security and passwords · Developers
- Vericto
Checks the SQL your AI agents write and blocks destructive queries, masks private columns and keeps a signed audit log.
Since 2026
Free plan · Security and passwords · Developers
- Metorial
Gives a company's AI agents one MCP address with role-based tool access, single sign-on and logs of every call.
Since 2025
Security and passwords · Software companies
- AgentGuard
A local app that blocks secrets and risky installs from AI coding agents and shrinks their token use.
Since 2026
Free · Security and passwords · Developers
- OneHuman
Detects AI agents logging into your SaaS app, masks private fields and asks the account owner before exports or payments.
Free trial · Security and passwords · Software companies
- 0sql
Model your data warehouse in YAML, then send business-term queries and get back one deterministic SQL statement.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- AgentDM
Gives each AI agent an alias so agents and people can message each other over MCP and A2A, with a Slack bridge.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AgentLine
Gives AI agents a US or Canadian phone number for calls and SMS, usable over MCP, REST or an agent skill.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AgentsProof
Traces AI agent runs, scores them against your own rules and test cases, and gives a shareable report link.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AgentWatch
A proxy that watches AI agent calls, spots runaway loops and blocks requests once a spending limit is hit.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- AI Commander
Lets AI assistants like Claude, Codex or ChatGPT run shell commands and background jobs on machines you own, with no inbound ports opened.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Antifailure
Gives each pull request a throwaway copy of production with masked data so teams and agents can test migrations and load first.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- APIndex
A catalog engineering teams host themselves to collect REST and SOAP specs, see which services depend on which, and try out endpoints.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- BlitzGraph
A hosted graph backend that AI coding agents can query with typed JSON instead of SQL, reachable over MCP.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Compute
Run GPU jobs from a CLI or an AI agent on several cloud providers, paying provider cost plus a small fee.
Since 2026
Pay as you go · Developer tools · Developers
- display.dev
Publish HTML or Markdown made by coding agents to a private link where your team can comment and see each version.
Since 2026
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Agencies
- DreamFactory
Creates secured REST APIs from existing databases so apps and AI tools can read data without direct database access.
Developer tools · Developers
- Failproof AI
Traces AI coding agent runs, spots where they fail and enforces rules that stop repeat failures as they happen.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- fastCRW
An API that searches, scrapes and crawls web pages into clean data for AI agents, with a free tier and self-hosting.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Fiwano
One API for sending and receiving WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger messages from your CRM, helpdesk or AI agent.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Agencies
- InstaVM
Gives AI agents isolated cloud VMs with snapshots, storage and egress rules, driven by an API or CLI.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers