The best Gumloop alternatives

Where Gumloop asks you to build agents, Cicada asks you for the job. Every employee gets a teammate they text on WhatsApp or iMessage, mention in Slack or email; a coordinator hands the work to specialists across 1,400+ apps, with a Full, Ask first or Read-only lock on each. It's in your group chats, joins your meetings on Business, and doesn't train on your content.

What it is

AI agents you text on iMessage and WhatsApp, mention in Slack or email, and add to your group chats, where they keep every message and file and follow up on what people promised.

Where it works

iMessage and WhatsApp (one-to-one and group chats), Slack, email and a web app

What it costs

A 3-day free trial, then Starter at $29 a month (300 credits, 3 agents, one person), Growth at $99 (up to 10 people) or Business at $249 (no limit on people). Credits are shared across the workspace, with no charge per person.

Worth knowing

Built for work rather than personal shopping and errands, and phone calls are switched off for now.

One assistant your team shares, in iMessage, SMS, Slack and email, with a meeting notetaker and phone calls, from $29.99 a month per active user.

What it is

An AI assistant a team shares, that you text, mention in Slack or email, with a meeting notetaker, phone calls from its own number and internal apps it builds.

Where it works

iMessage, SMS and RCS, Slack, email, a Chrome extension in Gmail, meetings (Meet, Zoom, Teams) and phone calls

What it costs

Free week with $50 of credits; Team from $29.99 a month for every active user (3,000 credits each, pooled), with 5,000-credit and larger tiers; Enterprise priced on request

Worth knowing

No WhatsApp that we could find, every active user is billed, and its integration docs say guardrails apply in shared Slack threads, not in DMs, iMessage or SMS.

One AI employee for a whole Slack or Teams workspace, priced per workspace rather than per seat.

What it is

One shared AI employee for a Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace.

Where it works

Slack and Microsoft Teams, web chat for Slack workspaces, its own email address and an API

What it costs

Up to $100 of free credits; Team plan from $50 a month per workspace, credits shared rather than per seat

Worth knowing

Not in iMessage or WhatsApp that we could find, and it reads notes from notetaker apps rather than joining calls.

If the job is one big deliverable: an autonomous agent on its own cloud computer that researches and builds slides, sites and apps.

What it is

An autonomous general agent that works on its own cloud computer, from research to slides, sites and apps, and can run hundreds of sub-agents for wide research.

Where it works

Web, desktop (macOS and Windows) and mobile apps, a browser extension, Slack, Telegram (DMs), LINE and email

What it costs

Free with 300 credits a day; paid plans from $20 a month for 4,000 credits up to $200 a month and more; Team $20 a seat a month with credits pooled; Enterprise on request

Worth knowing

Not in WhatsApp or iMessage, no notetaker that joins your calls, and its ownership changed twice in 2026 (some users' data was deleted in August to meet regulators' requirements).

If you run on Microsoft 365 and have makers: build agents grounded in SharePoint, Outlook and Teams, governed through Power Platform.

What it is

A low-code platform where makers build and manage agents for Microsoft 365, Teams and websites, governed through Power Platform.

Where it works

Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint, websites and apps; Slack, Telegram, SMS (Twilio) and email through Azure Bot Service

What it costs

Copilot Credits: $200 a month for 25,000, or $0.01 each pay-as-you-go; employee use inside Microsoft 365 Copilot ($30 a user a month) at no extra charge

Worth knowing

WhatsApp has been closed to new agents since 23 October 2026, iMessage isn't listed, and agents are built and approved by makers and admins.

If you run on Salesforce Enterprise: agents built on your CRM and Data 360, plus Coworker for each employee.

What it is

Salesforce's agent platform: admins build agents that act on the CRM and Data 360 for sales, service and field teams, plus Agentforce Coworker, each employee's AI teammate.

Where it works

Inside Salesforce and its mobile app, Slack and email; for customers, web chat, WhatsApp, SMS, Messenger, Apple Messages for Business and voice (messaging add-ons)

What it costs

Flex Credits at $500 per 100,000 (an action is 20 credits) or $2 a conversation; add-ons from $125 a user a month; Coworker $50 a user a month or in Foundations; needs Enterprise Edition or above

Worth knowing

It needs a Salesforce Enterprise, Performance or Unlimited org with Data 360, its WhatsApp and SMS are customer-service channels sold as add-ons, and agents are built by admins.

If you'd rather run it yourself: free, open-source software on your own machine, reached from your chat apps.

What it is

A free, open-source AI assistant you install on your own computer or server and reach from the chat apps you already use.

Where it works

29 chat apps by its own count, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, Microsoft Teams and iMessage (through a Mac), in DMs and group chats

What it costs

Free and open source (MIT), with no official hosted or paid edition; you pay for your model and your machine, and several third parties sell hosted OpenClaw

Worth knowing

You install, secure and update it yourself (or pay an unofficial host), sandboxing is off by default, and its docs say people who don't trust each other need separate gateways.