# Alternatives to UiPath Agent Builder > Source: https://theagentsindex.com/uipath-agent-builder/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. MindStudio No-code visual builder for AI agent workflows, published as web apps, APIs, webhooks or MCP servers. **Research coverage:** 33/35 criteria **Where it improves on UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Done-for-you service: partial — MindStudio sells software you operate yourself; a directory of third-party consultants and agencies can be hired to build and run agents, and the Business plan bundles team training.](https://university.mindstudio.ai/programs/mindstudio-solutions-partners) - [Open models: yes — Open-weight families are in the hosted catalog and, separately, any OpenAI-API-compatible checkpoint you run yourself can be registered and selected inside a block.](https://university.mindstudio.ai/developers/self-hosted-models) - [Open source: partial — The hosted platform is proprietary. The Node client library is MIT licensed, and the agent SDK, CLI and MCP server source is published publicly in the vendor GitHub organisation.](https://university.mindstudio.ai/developers/npm-package) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Data residency: partial — United States by default and by policy, with an explicit reservation for other countries. No EU or other regional hosting option is published, including for Business.](https://www.mindstudio.ai/legal/privacy-policy) [View MindStudio](https://theagentsindex.com/mindstudio) ### 2. 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 UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Writes code: yes — The Agentforce Vibes coding agent turns a natural-language description into Salesforce code and metadata.](https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/developers/vibe-coding/) - [Writes tests: yes — Apex test classes and LWC Jest tests are generated alongside the code, with a dedicated QA Validator sub-agent for coverage.](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/agentforcevibes/guide/afv-agentic-dev.html) - [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/) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [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/) - [On the command line: partial — Salesforce CLI drives the whole agent lifecycle from a terminal, but the Vibes coding agent itself is distributed only as a VS Code extension and a hosted IDE. There is no standalone Vibes CLI.](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/ai/agentforce/guide/headless-tools.html) - [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) ### 3. ElevenLabs Agents Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Done-for-you service: partial — Self-serve software you run, but enterprises can buy ElevenLabs Forward Deployed Engineers who scope, build and stabilise the deployment; no price is published.](https://elevenlabs.io/agents/forward-deployed-engineers) - [Open models: yes — Open-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.](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/llm/custom-llm/together-ai) - [In your pipeline: yes — Agents deploy from CI with an API key in the environment; the unit of change is the agent configuration, not a pull request in your code.](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/operate/cli) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Ships it: partial — The CLI pushes agent configuration to the platform and into CI/CD; what it deploys is agents, not application code.](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/operate/cli) - [In your editor: no — The vendor enumerates its surfaces as web widgets, mobile apps, phone systems and custom integrations; no editor or IDE extension appears in that list.](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/integrate/overview) - [Data residency: partial — US by default; EU, India and Singapore exist as separate Enterprise workspaces with their own accounts, API hosts and reduced model choice, and processing may still leave the region.](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/administration/data-residency) [View ElevenLabs Agents](https://theagentsindex.com/elevenlabs-conversational-ai) ### 4. Sim Open-source AI workspace for building, deploying and running agents across 1,000+ integrations. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models run through Groq/Cerebras/OpenRouter, or locally via Ollama or vLLM at no API cost.](https://docs.sim.ai/introduction) - [Self-hosted: yes — Docker Compose and Kubernetes deployments are documented and free; the pricing table nevertheless lists 'Self Hosting' only under Enterprise.](https://docs.sim.ai/introduction) - [Open source: yes — Apache 2.0 on GitHub; the docs add that SSO and access control carry a separate license requiring a subscription for production use.](https://docs.sim.ai/introduction) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Ships it: partial — Deploys what it builds: workflows ship as versioned REST endpoints, with deploy/undeploy/rollback callable from CI. What ships is workflows, not code.](https://docs.sim.ai/workflows/deployment/api) - [Opt out of training: partial — No customer-facing training opt-out switch; the vendor commits that Google-API data is never used for generalized model training, and self-hosting keeps data on your own infrastructure.](https://www.sim.ai/privacy) - [Certifications: partial — SOC2 is claimed on the homepage but the plan table lists 'SOC2 Compliance' only in the Enterprise column; the privacy policy addresses GDPR and CCPA. No ISO 27001 claim found.](https://www.sim.ai/) [View Sim](https://theagentsindex.com/sim) ### 5. 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 UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Writes code: yes — Ships a CodingTools toolkit whose documented job is editing files and running commands in a scoped project directory.](https://docs.agno.com/use-cases/coding-agents) - [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) - [In your editor: yes — `agno connect` writes MCP config for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex and Cursor so those clients can run your agents.](https://docs.agno.com/cli/connect) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Ships it: partial — Publishing is deliberately outside the default loop; commits, PRs and deploys must be exposed as separately gated tools.](https://docs.agno.com/use-cases/coding-agents) - [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) - [In your pipeline: no — The enumerated serving surfaces are REST, MCP in Claude/ChatGPT and chat apps; no pull-request or CI surface appears.](https://www.agno.com/) [View Agno](https://theagentsindex.com/agno) ### 6. Glean Enterprise AI platform for building, governing and running agents on permission-aware company context. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Writes code: yes — Code Writer proposes code changes and opens draft pull requests in GitHub, callable from Glean, agents or Slack.](https://docs.glean.com/administration/assistant/features/code-writer) - [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) - [In your editor: yes — A remote MCP server puts Glean inside Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, JetBrains AI Assistant and Claude Desktop.](https://www.glean.com/platform/api) **Trade-offs against UiPath Agent Builder:** - [Ships it: no — It stops at a draft pull request; review and merge stay in the customer's source control.](https://docs.glean.com/administration/assistant/features/code-writer) - [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) - [On the command line: partial — No Glean CLI of its own; a plug-in exposes Glean tools inside terminal coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenCode.](https://docs.glean.com/administration/platform/mcp/glean-plugin) [View Glean](https://theagentsindex.com/glean) ## Method Unknown data is never treated as a benefit or a trade-off. Featured placement is labelled but cannot alter recommendation order.