6 Best AI Workers (Delos) Alternatives in 2026

AI Workers by Delos (aiworkers.so) takes the "AI employee" idea more literally than anyone: each worker gets a real professional identity with its own email address and phone number, a named role from sales assistant to financial analyst, access to 3,000+ tools, and goal-based autonomy with human escalation. It's impressive. It's also a lot to run: per-worker seats stack as you fill the org chart, every worker adds identity and access governance to manage, and the roles are fixed templates.

Here are the best AI Workers alternatives in 2026, from lighter single-employee setups to other rosters.

1. Molted: one identity, not an org chart

Full disclosure: Molted is our product. The bet is the opposite of Delos's: instead of deploying a workforce of workers, each with its own identity to provision and govern, Molted runs one capable AI employee built on OpenClaw, the largest open-source agent ecosystem. It already has everything wired in: inbox, browser, phone and 1,000+ apps. You brief it across roles like a real generalist hire, and it runs 24/7, fully managed, monitored and auto-healed.

Governance collapses to one agent under your rules, and pricing collapses to one flat monthly price instead of seats multiplying by role. Self-serve, cancel anytime, 24-hour free trial. Read the full Delos vs Molted comparison.

2. Marcus: the chat-native single employee

Marcus (heymarcus.ai) is the lighter-weight take on one AI colleague: it lives in Slack, Teams, email and SMS, connects tools like Salesforce, Notion, Shopify and ad platforms, delivers real work and runs scheduled jobs. No identities to provision, but the work is mediated through chat threads and priced per workspace. Our Marcus comparison.

3. Marblism: the named cast, minus the phone lines

Marblism keeps the multi-employee feel without giving workers their own identities: a cast of named agents (Eva, Sonny, Penny…) covering inbox, socials, SEO, lead gen, calls and support, with 40k+ businesses claimed and very simple onboarding. Costs still stack per employee, and the work runs on their rails. Our Marblism comparison.

4. Payrolless: the governance-first catalog

If what drew you to Delos was treating AI like real staff, Payrolless offers 20 prebuilt AI employees deployable in 3 clicks with a heavy focus on security, observability and human validation. It's the roster model with the most explicit control story, though roles remain platform-defined. Our Payrolless comparison.

5. Agentova: the French workforce

Agentova ships named agents for support over mail and WhatsApp, finance, marketing, content and prospecting, with a phone agent in the changelog and a strong French-market base. A natural fit if your team and customers work in French; role-pack pricing stacks like any roster. Our Agentova comparison.

6. Sintra: the biggest marketplace

Sintra is the volume leader of the category: an AI employee marketplace with 1,000+ integrations, budget caps, review-and-approve workflows and 50,000+ business owners claimed. Easier to start than Delos, less ambitious on autonomy: helpers mostly live in Sintra's chat rather than acting with their own identity. Our Sintra comparison.

Head to head

The bottom line

Delos is the right call if you genuinely want an org chart of AI workers with their own identities and have the governance appetite to match. If you want the roster without the identity overhead, Marblism or Sintra. But most lean teams discover they need one well-briefed employee more than ten provisioned ones: one agent, everything wired in, one flat price. That's Molted.