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Back to the archive Issue 13 · Jul 20, 2026 · Pick 03 of 05
Pick 03 Dev tools Reviewed Jul 20, 2026

Sim

An open-source workspace for building and running AI agents, visually or in code.

sim.ai
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Sim — sim.ai

Sim is an open-source workspace for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents. You wire blocks, models, and integrations together on a visual canvas — or just describe the workflow in plain English — and it produces an agent that acts across the tools you already use, from Slack to HubSpot to Notion. The part that stood out to me is the monitoring: you can trace every run block by block, with full logs and the real cost, which most agent tools quietly hide.

It’s worth being honest that this is more team platform than one-person side project — it’s SOC2-compliant and clearly aimed at technical teams. But it’s genuinely open source, so you can self-host and own the whole stack, and for anyone tired of black-box agent builders, that transparency is the draw.

What's good

  • Open source — self-host it and own the whole stack
  • Visual builder plus plain-English agent creation
  • Real observability: live traces, logs, and real run cost

What's rough

  • More team platform than scrappy indie tool
  • The 1,000-integration surface is a lot to learn
Maker
Open-source team
Category
Dev tools
Pricing
Open source · free to self-host · paid cloud
Platforms
web · self-hosted
Launched
June 2026
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Editorial pick: an earned link, not a paid one.

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