# Alternatives to LuMay > Source: https://theagentsindex.com/lumay/alternatives (current datasheets, evidence-ranked) Candidates share the baseline category or are previously researched peers. Requirements, preserved strengths, explicit trade-offs and research coverage decide the order; paid tier does not. ## Shortlist ### 1. Salesforce Agentforce Salesforce's platform for building, deploying and monitoring AI agents on top of CRM data. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Autonomy is a per-agent setting rather than a fixed trait; agents escalate to a human when an issue exceeds their scope.](https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/guide/) - [Free tier: yes — Salesforce Foundations is a $0 add-on activated inside an existing Salesforce org, seeded with a fixed Flex Credit grant and subject to overage fees; every paid Agentforce tier routes to a sales conversation.](https://www.salesforce.com/crm/foundations/) - [MCP server: yes — Salesforce hosts MCP servers so external agents can query an org under per-user OAuth, and Agentforce is also an MCP client consuming third-party servers attached in Agent Builder.](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/hosted-mcp-servers/guide) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: partial — Agentforce is software the customer configures in a low-code builder; Salesforce separately sells Professional Services that performs the hands-on build, reached through an account executive rather than bundled with the product.](https://www.salesforce.com/services/professional-services/) - [Agent permissions: partial — Guardrails and filters bound which topics and actions an agent may reach and data access honours existing Salesforce permissions, but an approval-before-every-action mode is documented only for the Agentforce Vibes coding agent.](https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/how-it-works/) - [Self-hosted: no — Agentforce runs on Salesforce's own public-cloud infrastructure, and even default model inference is operated inside the Salesforce Trust Boundary; no on-premises or customer-VPC deployment is offered.](https://www.salesforce.com/platform/public-cloud-infrastructure/) [View Salesforce Agentforce](https://theagentsindex.com/salesforce-agentforce) ### 2. Agno Python SDK, open-source AgentOS runtime and hosted control plane for building and operating agents. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Background execution and a database-backed scheduler run agents with no client attached; approval gates are opt-in.](https://docs.agno.com/use-cases/workflow-automation) - [Open models: yes — Local runtimes llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama and vLLM are first-class provider keys, alongside Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek and Qwen.](https://docs.agno.com/models/providers/model-index) - [Free tier: yes — A $0 plan runs the open-source runtime at any scale and gives the full control plane against a local AgentOS.](https://www.agno.com/pricing) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: no — You run the software in your own cloud; Enterprise adds dedicated build help, not a managed service.](https://www.agno.com/products/runtime) - [Agent permissions: partial — Runs are unattended unless a tool is marked for approval; then the run pauses in your database until an admin resolves it.](https://docs.agno.com/agent-os/approvals/overview) - [Audit log: partial — The runtime records audit logs and approval resolutions; audit logs covering your own end users are Enterprise.](https://www.agno.com/) [View Agno](https://theagentsindex.com/agno) ### 3. Glean Enterprise AI platform for building, governing and running agents on permission-aware company context. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Autonomous agents plan their own approach from plain-language instructions, and time-based triggers run them unattended.](https://www.glean.com/ai-agents/agent-builder) - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models are a named tier in the rate card, served through Fireworks or Baseten.](https://docs.glean.com/glean-enterprise-flex-pricing) - [MCP server: yes — A remote Glean MCP server exposes Glean tools and agents to other AI hosts; Glean can also consume external MCP servers.](https://www.glean.com/platform/api) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: no — Glean sells licensed software; it manages the infrastructure and application but customers build and run their own agents.](https://docs.glean.com/get-started/prepare/about-deployment) - [Agent permissions: partial — Write actions require confirmation and are checked before execution; source-system permissions are re-checked on every request, but read work proceeds unattended.](https://www.glean.com/platform/security) - [Self-hosted: partial — Customer Hosted runs Glean inside your own AWS or GCP account, but as a Glean-operated managed service you may not deploy or patch yourself.](https://docs.glean.com/get-started/prepare/about-deployment) [View Glean](https://theagentsindex.com/glean) ### 4. n8n Workflow automation platform for building and running AI agents on a visual canvas, with code where needed. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Agents run a reasoning loop until they produce a result and fire from schedules or channels with nobody watching; approval steps are something you add.](https://docs.n8n.io/build/build-and-manage-agents) - [Open models: yes — Ollama chat and embedding nodes run local open-weight models; OpenRouter, Hugging Face Inference, DeepSeek and Mistral nodes cover hosted open-weight options.](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/cluster-nodes/sub-nodes/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmchatollama) - [Free tier: yes — 14-day n8n Cloud trial with no card (Business-plan trial does need one), and the self-hosted Community edition is free indefinitely per the Compare editions docs.](https://n8n.io/pricing/) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: no — Every plan is software you operate, on n8n Cloud or your own infrastructure; the only vendor-delivered service on the pricing page is support, dedicated with an SLA on Enterprise.](https://n8n.io/pricing/) - [Seat model: no — Not sold per seat. Users are unlimited on every plan and the quota is executions, so there is no seat floor or ceiling to negotiate; shared projects are what step up by tier (1, 3, 6, unlimited).](https://n8n.io/pricing/) - [Audit log: partial — Audit events and log streaming to a SIEM are Enterprise: the pricing comparison table shows a cross against audit logging and log streaming for Starter and Pro.](https://n8n.io/enterprise/) [View n8n](https://theagentsindex.com/n8n) ### 5. UiPath Agent Builder Low-code canvas in UiPath Studio Web for building AI agents that run on the UiPath automation platform. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Autonomous is one of the two agent types you pick at creation, human escalation is marked optional in the build flow, and a deployed agent runs as an unattended Orchestrator job; UiPath itself steers high-stakes regulated work back to deterministic automation.](https://docs.uipath.com/agents/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/building-an-agent-in-studio-web) - [Free tier: yes — You can start without a sales call three ways: a standing Community plan that includes building agents in Studio Web, a self-serve 60-day trial, and the self-serve 25 dollar Basic tier bought by card at checkout.](https://docs.uipath.com/automation-cloud/automation-cloud/latest/admin-guide/unified-pricing-licensing-plan-framework) - [MCP server: yes — Both directions are documented: an agent can add external MCP servers as tools, and a UiPath MCP Server exposes deployed agents and automations as tools at a URL the docs say external MCP clients connect to.](https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/mcp-server-url) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: no — This is licensed software the customer operates, pitched explicitly at the business user building the agent themselves; UiPath sells no build-and-run service on this page, only a trial and a demo.](https://www.uipath.com/platform/agentic-automation/agentic-ai/agent-builder) - [Self-hosted: partial — Self-hosting is real but doubly bounded: Agent Builder is named as included in Automation Suite on AKS, EKS or OpenShift including air-gapped, while the Automation Suite on Linux flavour has agentic AI only planned, and the Basic plan carries an em dash for deploying in your own environment.](https://www.uipath.com/product/automation-suite) - [Admin controls: partial — Admins get Automation Ops governance policies that can override an agent's model settings, plus custom roles and access policies, but both rows carry an em dash on the Basic tier and start at Standard.](https://www.uipath.com/pricing) [View UiPath Agent Builder](https://theagentsindex.com/uipath-agent-builder) ### 6. Relevance AI Hosted low-code platform for building, evaluating and running teams of business AI agents. **Research coverage:** 34/35 criteria **Where it improves on LuMay:** - [Runs autonomously: yes — Agents are positioned to complete tasks without a human in the loop; approval modes are configurable per connection](https://relevanceai.com/docs/get-started/introduction) - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models reachable through the OpenRouter integration; the vendor also hosts LLaMA-family models in its own cloud](https://relevanceai.com/docs/integrations/llm-integrations/openrouter) - [Free tier: yes — $0 Free plan with 200 Actions/month and 1,000 one-time Vendor Credits, no card required](https://relevanceai.com/docs/get-started/pricing) **Trade-offs against LuMay:** - [Done-for-you service: partial — You run the software, but a Relevance deployment team builds the first agents with you and Enterprise includes custom implementation](https://relevanceai.com/) - [Self-hosted: no — Multi-tenant SaaS with logical separation; single-tenant is stated as not yet available](https://relevanceai.com/docs/admin/security) - [Admin controls: partial — Approval gates, spend and usage limits on all plans; RBAC and fine-grained asset controls are Enterprise-only](https://relevanceai.com/docs/admin/security) [View Relevance AI](https://theagentsindex.com/relevance-ai) ## Method Unknown data is never treated as a benefit or a trade-off. Featured placement is labelled but cannot alter recommendation order.