AI Commander compared with the alternatives

"Let an AI run commands on my computer" is one sentence covering several different problems, and different tools solve different ones. These pages say plainly which problem AI Commander is built for, which problems it is not, and where to go instead.

How these comparisons are written

A comparison page is only useful if you can trust it, so these follow fixed rules:

• Every claim about another project comes from that project's own site, docs, repository or pricing page, is listed at the bottom of the page, and carries the date it was checked.
• Unverifiable means "not documented", written as such — never guessed, and never read as evidence a feature is missing.
• No claims about anyone else's security, reliability or roadmap. We describe what things do, not how safe or how well-run they are.
• Every page has a "When NOT to use AI Commander" section that names the case where the other tool is the better fit and links to it. Those sections are the most honest part of the page and often the most useful.
• Claims about AI Commander are traceable to its docs, llms.txt, the privacy policy or the relay's own code — including the unglamorous caveats.

The short version of every page

AI Commander earns its place when the machine is remote and headless, when the work has to keep running after the chat ends, when there is a GPU to reserve, or when there are several machines to address by name. It is the wrong tool when the computer is the one in front of you, when the environment is air-gapped, when you cannot install anything on the target, or when you have no hardware of your own — in each of those cases the pages above name a better option and link to it.

What it costs

Free is AI access to your computers, up to 10 saved machines. Pro is $49 a month and covers every saved machine up to a technical 100-machine ceiling*, plus file transfer with remote_pull and remote_push. The paid line is drawn at fleet size and at moving artifacts, not at the act of connecting. Full detail on the pricing page.

* 100 machines is a technical ceiling, not a policy limit. Need more? Get in touch — we'll sort it out.