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AI agents: the tech stack of 81 real products

Agents that carry out multi-step work on their own — research, operations, browsing, back-office tasks.

What sets them apart

Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.

React RouterFrontend Framework2.7×as often as overall20 of the AI agents that show frontend framework (37%)Google Cloud PlatformHosting2.2×as often as overall6 of the AI agents that show hosting (17%)Amazon BedrockLLM API2.0×as often as overall5 of the AI agents that show LLM API (9%)SQLiteDatabase2.0×as often as overall10 of the AI agents that show database (24%)

The typical stack

The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.

DecisionMost common pickShareAt default usage
LLM APIOpenAI API39 of 56 · 70%$10/mo · GPT-6 Luna
Frontend FrameworkReact35 of 54 · 65%—
DatabasePostgreSQL22 of 42 · 52%—
Backend FrameworkFastAPI24 of 36 · 67%—
HostingCloudflare13 of 35 · 37%$12/mo · Workers Paid
Transactional EmailResend20 of 31 · 65%$20/mo · Pro 50k
AI SDK & Agent FrameworkLangChain14 of 24 · 58%—
PaymentsStripe20 of 23 · 87%fees on revenue · $410 on $10,000/mo
AuthenticationClerk8 of 20 · 40%$0/mo · Hobby
Database Access & ORMsSQLAlchemy12 of 20 · 60%—
Product AnalyticsPostHog19 of 20 · 95%$0/mo · Pay-as-you-go
Vector DatabaseChroma5 of 20 · 25%$51/mo · Starter
LLM Observability & EvalsLangfuse10 of 17 · 59%$29/mo · Core
Error MonitoringSentry14 of 14 · 100%$29/mo · Team
Web AnalyticsGoogle Analytics4 of 10 · 40%$0/mo · Standard
File StorageAmazon S37 of 9 · 78%$11/mo · S3 Standard (US East)
Background Jobs & CronCelery4 of 8 · 50%—
Image & Video Hostingsharp8 of 8 · 100%—

Monthly bills add up to about $162 at the calculators' default usage, list prices; fees on revenue (Stripe) come on top. Set your own usage →

What they chose, decision by decision

Among the AI agents that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.

LLM API56 products
OpenAI API39 · 70%Claude34 · 61%Gemini API21 · 38%Groq6 · 11%
Frontend Framework54 products
React35 · 65%Next.js30 · 56%React Router20 · 37%Vue.js5 · 9%
Database42 products
PostgreSQL22 · 52%Supabase10 · 24%SQLite10 · 24%MongoDB6 · 14%
Backend Framework36 products
FastAPI24 · 67%Express9 · 25%Flask6 · 17%Hono4 · 11%
Hosting35 products
Cloudflare13 · 37%Amazon Web Services8 · 23%GitHub Pages8 · 23%Google Cloud Platform6 · 17%
Transactional Email31 products
Resend20 · 65%SendGrid9 · 29%Postmark8 · 26%Nodemailer3 · 10%
AI SDK & Agent Framework24 products
LangChain14 · 58%LangGraph6 · 25%AI SDK5 · 21%Claude Agent SDK5 · 21%
Payments23 products
Stripe20 · 87%Polar1 · 4%Dodo Payments1 · 4%Autumn1 · 4%
Authentication20 products
Clerk8 · 40%Better Auth5 · 25%SuperTokens2 · 10%Hexclave (Stack Auth)1 · 5%
Database Access & ORMs20 products
SQLAlchemy12 · 60%Prisma3 · 15%Drizzle ORM3 · 15%Sequelize2 · 10%
Product Analytics20 products
PostHog19 · 95%Mixpanel1 · 5%Amplitude1 · 5%
Vector Database20 products
Chroma5 · 25%Pinecone5 · 25%pgvector4 · 20%Qdrant4 · 20%
LLM Observability & Evals17 products
Langfuse10 · 59%LangSmith7 · 41%Arize Phoenix1 · 6%Braintrust1 · 6%
Error Monitoring14 products
Sentry14 · 100%
Web Analytics10 products
Google Analytics4 · 40%Vercel Web Analytics3 · 30%Plausible Analytics2 · 20%Cloudflare Web Analytics1 · 10%
File Storage9 products
Amazon S37 · 78%MinIO3 · 33%
Background Jobs & Cron8 products
Celery4 · 50%Temporal2 · 25%BullMQ2 · 25%Trigger.dev1 · 13%
Image & Video Hosting8 products
sharp8 · 100%

Small samples, fewer than 8 products: AI App Builders (Lovable 4, Base44 1) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 4, Customer.io 1)

AI agents we track

58 makers' products and 23 open-source projects. Makers' products first.

SmythOSPlatform for building and deploying AI agents, visually or by describing them to an assistant (Agent Weaver) that assembles the models and APIs. Integrates with providers such as OpenAI, Hugging Face and Amazon Bedrock.+9
MindPalMindPal is a no-code platform for turning a person's expertise into AI agents and multi-agent workflows that can be shared with a team, clients or an audience. It is for coaches, consultants, agencies, educators and creators.+6
Toffu AIMarketing agent that doesn’t circle back tomorrow+5
Brev.ioThe AI coworker that drives action on your goals+4
ConduitAI agents for hospitality teams+3
Jinna.aiThe AI-native Business OS for solopreneurs that runs itself+2
KonfideAI Agents with a human expert for hire+2
NeuralAgentPersonal AI Assistant That Operates Your Entire Computer+2
@OYour AI coworker, in Slack. Just tag @O.+1
SkyvernOpen Source Browser Automation Company+1
AirtopBuilds AI agents that log in to websites, browse them and extract data, from a plain-English description of the task.
PusharyControl panel for AI agents on your lock screen
Superexpert.AIOpen-source platform for enterprise AI agents, web-first.
UnifyAI teammates for everyone else 🤖
ComputerXYour smart agent that handles your computer work
Dopamine.chatEffortlessly build your AI team for everything you do
SpineBuilding autonomous agents for everyday work.
STORIContent marketing platform whose AI agents draft a marketing plan, analyze competitors and existing material, and run content campaigns from idea to publishing. For teams building inbound marketing channels.
AgentXBuild and evaluate multi AI agents with any LLM
munoAI agents that talk to your team & complete tasks for you.
PigAutomate Your Windows Computer with AI
xpander.aiPlatform for running AI agents in production, with per-agent identity, user permissions, credential vaulting and audit logs. Runs in xpander's cloud or on a company's own Kubernetes, and agents can be used from Slack, Teams, ChatGPT or Claude.
MagineSpawn vision-enabled AI agents autonomously browsing the web
RectifyThe visual command center for OpenClaw teams and agencies
ScarlettScarlett is an AI agent that works in Slack as a member of your team, connecting to your other tools to carry out tasks and automate workflows. It is for teams that want to hand routine work to an AI.
SimularThe Autonomous Computer Company
Agent-SinAI agent that handles repeated tasks through reusable skills
ArgosThe AI that acts as you, right in your browser
fyliAutomate your marketing with AI agents
TometoAI Engineering Manager for Startup Teams
viktor.comThe AI employee that does the work, in Slack & Teams
ever-worksEver® Works™ - The Workshop for AI. An open agentic runtime that autonomously researches, ships, and maintains entire businesses, 24/7 - https://ever.works+23
AutoGPTAutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.+19
paperclipThe open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work+9
okouOkou connects to the tools your team already uses and does the work — across marketing, sales, engineering, and operations, under your control.+8
eigentEigent: The Open Source Cowork Desktop - Local and Free Alternative to Claude Cowork and Codex+6
MorpheusMorpheus - A Network For Powering Smart Agents - Compute + Code + Capital + Community+4
TownTown is the unusually helpful AI assistant. It learns how you work, not the other way around: your voice, your people, your patterns. It works where you do, across email, calendar, docs, and messages. It drafts your replies, handles your scheduling, and builds routines for the work you repeat. The more it learns, the more it does on its own, so your time goes to the work only you can do.o big ideas.
BackdropAI Coworkers that run your projects and operations
dustCustom AI agent platform to speed up your work.+20
cuga-agentCUGA is an open-source generalist agent harness for the enterprise, supporting complex task execution on web and APIs, OpenAPI/MCP integrations, composable architecture, reasoning modes, and policy-aw+6
kagentCloud Native Agentic AI | Discord: https://bit.ly/kagentdiscord+6
deer-flowAn open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of ta+4
LexoraA self-evolved, sovereign desktop AI agent built for real-world action — beyond model wrappers and coding copilots. / 真实实践中自我演化的独立桌面 AI Agent。+4
lemma-platformThe open-source workspace where humans and AI agents work as one team.+3
lobuOpen-source control plane and runtime for organisational agents: shared company context & brain+3
MathModelAgent🤖📐专为数学建模设计的 Agent & skills ,自动完成数学建模，生成一份完整的可以直接提交的论文。 An Agent Designed for Mathematical Modeling ,Automatically complete mathmodel and generate a complete paper ready for submission.+1
ObserverWhy observe computer if computer can observe for you+1
gptmeYour agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web. Make your own persistent autonomous agent on top!
atomAtom Agent, Open-Source Governed AI Agent Platform for Self-Hosted Automation+16
mindroomYour AI is trapped in apps. We set it free — Self-hostable AI stack for multi-user, multi-agent workflows on Matrix.+13
surf.new🌊 An open-source alternative to OpenAI Operator+6
CortexONOpen-source generalized AI agent for everyday task automations.+4
HugAgentOSHugAgentOS: The Self-Evolving AgentOS for Ontology-Grounded Trustworthy Reasoning+4
agenticaOne person, a team of agents. Multi-session CLI that collaborates across terminals; /goal keeps long tasks running; WeChat/WeCom/Feishu gateway lets you call them back when you walk away. Async Python+3
DeepResearchAgentDeepResearchAgent is a hierarchical multi-agent system designed not only for deep research tasks but also for general-purpose task solving. The framework leverages a top-level planning agent to coordi+3
ixAutonomous GPT-4 agent platform+3
centaurCentaur is frontier, agentic infrastructure that you own. Centaur is like Claude Tag, but open source and on steroids.+2
gbrainGarry's Opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent Brain+2
holaOSOpen-source All in One AI agent workspace. Run any agent — Claude Code, Codex — across your tools (100+ integrations + MCP), apps, browser, and files, with shared memory. Built-in models or BYOK.+2
bitterbot-desktopA local-first AI agent with persistent memory, emotional intelligence, and a peer-to-peer skills economy.+1
agenticSeekFully Local Manus AI. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity.
CoWork-OSLocal-first personal agentic OS and everything app for coding, knowledge work, web design, automations, and artifacts.
lemonaiLemon AI is the first Full-stack Open-source Self-Evolving General AI Agent, offering a fully local alternative to Agentic platforms like Manus & Genspark AI.🔔 Official updates X(twitter) @LemonAI_
rsclaw🦀 AI Agent Engine with Long-Term Memory and Self-Learning & One-Click OpenClaw Migration
goclawGoClaw - GoClaw is OpenClaw rebuilt in Go — with multi-tenant isolation, 5-layer security, and native concurrency. Deploy AI agent teams at scale without compromising on safety.
AI-ScientistThe AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery 🧑‍🔬
OpenManus-WebUI构建一个前端页面，通过flask框架实现OpenManus的前端调用。
opensquillaOpenSquilla — Token-Efficient AI Agent with same budget, higher intelligence density