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Glean
Enterprise AI platform for building, governing and running agents on permission-aware company context.
Why it's on this listReviews code · YesThe pull request review agent fetches a PR diff, checks it against style guides and posts comments back to GitHub.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +Open models · YesOpen-weight models are a named tier in the rate card, served through Fireworks or Baseten.Evidence ↗
- +Self-hosted · PartialCustomer Hosted runs Glean inside your own AWS or GCP account, but as a Glean-operated managed service you may not deploy or patch yourself.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Writes tests · PartialTest changes appear in the vendor's own agent example output; no dedicated test-generation feature is documented.Evidence ↗
- −Ships it · NoIt stops at a draft pull request; review and merge stay in the customer's source control.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoGlean sells licensed software; it manages the infrastructure and application but customers build and run their own agents.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 02
Dust
Platform for building and running AI agents on connected company data, with 20+ models and MCP tools.
From FreeWhy it's on this listReviews code · YesGitHub tools let an agent review pull requests against your internal rules; an admin must first run the OAuth flow and pick the repositories.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +Open models · YesOpen-weight families such as Mistral, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM are offered, but Dust serves them itself through providers like Fireworks rather than your own weights.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesA published npm CLI opens an interactive terminal chat with filesystem access, and takes single non-interactive messages that return JSON on stdout.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Writes code · PartialAgents author React components (Frames) and run code in a sandbox to produce files, but Dust documents no repository-level code authoring or commits.Evidence ↗
- −Debugs and fixes · PartialMarketed for debugging by surfacing code context, docs and past issues to the engineer; nothing documents the agent landing the fix itself.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoYou buy software and configure the agents yourself; Dust's own people come in as onboarding and customer success on Enterprise, not as a build team.Evidence ↗
32/35 researched criteria · 3 not established - 03
Agno
Python SDK, open-source AgentOS runtime and hosted control plane for building and operating agents.
From FreeWhy it's on this listReviews code · YesCode review over a diff is one of the documented coding-agent patterns.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +Open models · YesLocal runtimes llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama and vLLM are first-class provider keys, alongside Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek and Qwen.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesThe `agno` command scaffolds a project, starts and stops it, connects clients and mints service-account tokens.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Writes tests · PartialThe documented Verify stage runs the repository's existing gates; test authoring appears only in the example prompt, not as a capability claim.Evidence ↗
- −Ships it · PartialPublishing is deliberately outside the default loop; commits, PRs and deploys must be exposed as separately gated tools.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoYou run the software in your own cloud; Enterprise adds dedicated build help, not a managed service.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 04
OpenClaw
Self-hosted gateway that connects chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack to AI agents on your own machine.
From FreeWhy it's on this listOpen models · YesLocal and self-hosted inference servers are first-class providers, as is any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoint.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +On the command line · YesThe openclaw CLI is the primary interface: onboarding, gateway control, sessions, agents, automations, backups and diagnostics.Evidence ↗
- +Self-hosted · YesSelf-hosting is the only deployment model: one Gateway process on your laptop, a Mac mini, a VPS, Docker, Kubernetes or a Raspberry Pi.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Ships it · PartialA Gateway publication broker creates commits, pushed branches and pull requests from a session; nothing in the docs claims it deploys.Evidence ↗
- −Done-for-you service · NoYou install and operate it yourself; the OpenClaw Foundation stewards the code and the docs offer no build-and-run service.Evidence ↗
- −Single sign-on · PartialNo SAML or OIDC in the Gateway itself: it consumes a verified identity header from an identity-aware reverse proxy such as Cloudflare Access, or a Tailscale identity, and the security audit flags that delegation as critical.Evidence ↗
32/35 researched criteria · 3 not established - 05
ElevenLabs Agents
Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM.
From FreeWhy it's on this listAgent permissions · YesTool use is gated per MCP server and per tool: always ask, fine-grained (auto-approved, requires approval, disabled), or no approval at all.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +Open models · YesOpen-weight models run two ways: ElevenLabs-hosted Qwen in the native model list, or Llama and Mixtral through a custom LLM endpoint such as Together AI, Groq or SambaNova.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesA standalone CLI authenticates by OAuth and pushes, pulls and diffs agent, tool and test configurations held as files in version control.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Writes code · PartialElevenLabs agents do not author code themselves; the Cursor integration lets an agent launch Cursor background agents that do, and needs a paid Cursor plan.Evidence ↗
- −Debugs and fixes · PartialBug fixing is delegated: the agent starts and steers a Cursor background agent, which diagnoses and lands the change; ElevenLabs itself never touches the repository.Evidence ↗
- −Ships it · PartialThe CLI pushes agent configuration to the platform and into CI/CD; what it deploys is agents, not application code.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 06
Sim
Open-source AI workspace for building, deploying and running agents across 1,000+ integrations.
From FreeWhy it's on this listReviews code · YesReview Code mode checks out an existing PR read-only and submits a GitHub review with inline comments.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Salesforce Agentforce
- +Whole-codebase work · YesCreate PR clones the whole repository into a sandbox with full read, shell, edit and git access.Evidence ↗
- +Agent permissions · YesA Human in the Loop block pauses a run indefinitely for approval; Enterprise permission groups block disallowed models and block types mid-execution.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Salesforce Agentforce
- −Writes code · PartialGenerates workflow logic, blocks and schemas from a plain-English description, not application source code.Evidence ↗
- −Debugs and fixes · PartialBabysit Mode reads failing checks and review threads and runs bounded fixing rounds; no general 'diagnose a production failure' claim.Evidence ↗
- −Ships it · PartialDeploys what it builds: workflows ship as versioned REST endpoints, with deploy/undeploy/rollback callable from CI. What ships is workflows, not code.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria
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