8 Best Oz AI Alternatives in 2026 (Anyreach Oz)
Oz is Anyreach’s AI teammate. You @mention it in Slack or Teams, CC it on an email, or call it, and it comes back with the brief, the deck or the recap. Reads are free, every risky action posts an approve card first, and you pay per seat plus a pooled credit balance.
That is a strong pitch for a sales pod that wants finished documents. It is a different job from running your inbox, your calendar and your follow-up every day, which is where most teams actually lose the hours.
The quick answer: Carly is the best Oz alternative for work that has to keep happening on its own. It lives inside your Gmail or Outlook, sends from your address, starts on events instead of waiting for an @mention, and carries each request through your calendar, CRM, tasks and files. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Connect your inbox here.
Quick comparison
| Alternative | Best for | Reaches you by | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Email, calendar, workflows and agents that run on events | Email, text, web, ChatGPT and Claude | Free workflows; agents from $35/mo |
| Ako | An AI employee with its own email, Slack handle and WhatsApp number | Slack, WhatsApp, email | Free credits; Lite $19, Starter $49, Pro $199/mo |
| Righthand | Delegating whole responsibilities for a small business | iMessage, SMS, Slack, email, phone | First one free; Starter $99, Pro $199 per Righthand/mo |
| Lava | One agent working inside every desktop app | Mac and Windows app | Not published |
| Lindy | Building your own assistants around inbox and meetings | Web, email, Slack | Free tier; Plus $29.99 per user/mo |
| Tasklet | Buying exact agent capacity in small steps | Web, Slack, email | Free; Starter $25/mo |
| Manus | General agent for research and multi-step tasks | Web, app | Free; $20, $40, $200/mo |
| Sabi | A text-first executive assistant for one business owner | iMessage, SMS, email, Slack | $295/mo |
1. Carly: the alternative for work that runs itself
Carly is an AI assistant and agent builder for the part of the week Oz is not built around: the inbox, the calendar and the follow-up that has to happen whether or not anyone asks.
Connect your Google and Microsoft accounts and Carly works across all of them at once. It reads the thread, drafts the reply in your voice and sends it from your address, so a client never sees a bot’s email. It finds times, sends invites and moves meetings on your real calendar and everyone else’s. It updates the CRM, files the document and creates the task without a second instruction.
The bigger difference is triggers. Oz waits for an @mention or an email. Carly workflows start on their own when a lead form comes in, an email lands from a specific sender, a meeting ends or a Monday morning arrives, and the agents you build run those workflows for a whole team. Carly connects to thousands of apps, from HubSpot and Salesforce to Slack, Attio and Notion, through official connections.
You can also use it from where you already work: text it, email it, or add the Carly plugin to ChatGPT or the Carly connector to Claude.
- Best for: professionals and teams who want email, calendar and operations handled in their own accounts, on a schedule or on an event
- Pricing: free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month, with no per-seat platform fee stacked on top of credits
- Limitations: built around work apps and communication rather than ten-slide decks on demand
2. Ako
Ako is the closest match to Oz’s teammate framing. Each Ako gets its own email address, Slack handle and WhatsApp number and works as a member of the team, on a credit system with unlimited users on every plan.
- Best for: teams that want one AI employee across Slack, WhatsApp and email
- Pricing: free with 2,000 one-time credits; Lite $19, Starter $49, Pro $199 a month
- Limitations: credits expire each billing cycle on paid plans, and Teams is still coming. See Ako alternatives.
3. Righthand
Righthand sells the idea of handing over a responsibility, not a task: chase every invoice, answer every lead, triage the inbox daily. Each Righthand has its own browser, name, phone number and email address, and it is billed per Righthand rather than per seat.
- Best for: a small business that wants one agent owning a job for the whole team
- Pricing: first Righthand free; Starter $99, Pro $199 per Righthand a month
- Limitations: it cannot make payments yet, and it drives web apps through a browser session you sign into
4. Lava
Lava is one agent that learns your business and works inside the apps already on your screen, on the desktop rather than in a chat channel. Of everything here it overlaps most with Oz’s “same agent across all your software” line.
- Best for: people who want the agent inside the tools, not a chat window beside them
- Pricing: not published
- Limitations: desktop only, and a screen-driving agent needs the same approval discipline as any other. See Lava alternatives.
5. Lindy
Lindy is the build-your-own route: assemble assistants for inbox triage, meeting prep and follow-up from templates. Oz publishes its own comparison against it, which tells you which buyer Anyreach is chasing.
- Best for: people who want to design their own assistants
- Pricing: free tier; Plus from $29.99 per user a month
- Limitations: the more you build, the more you maintain. See Lindy alternatives.
6. Tasklet
Tasklet lets you buy exact agent capacity in small steps and runs tasks from Slack, email or the web. It is the cheapest entry on this list for a single power user.
- Best for: one person who wants metered agent capacity
- Pricing: free; Starter $25 a month
- Limitations: a personal tool first, with less of the team memory and approval layer Oz sells
7. Manus
Manus is the general-purpose agent for research, documents and multi-step web tasks. Like Oz it meters work in credits, and like Oz a single task can cost far more than the sticker price suggests.
- Best for: research and one-off projects rather than a standing teammate
- Pricing: free; Pro $20, Plus $40, Max $200 a month
- Limitations: credit burn varies wildly by task. See Manus pricing.
8. Sabi
Sabi is a text-first executive assistant for one business owner: inbox, calendar, follow-up, over iMessage, SMS, email and Slack. It is the opposite bet from Oz, a single person’s EA rather than a shared teammate.
- Best for: a founder who wants to run the business from Messages
- Pricing: $295 a month, single user
- Limitations: one seat, no team workspace yet. See Sabi alternatives.
How to choose an Oz alternative
- Email, calendar and follow-up that runs on events, from your own accounts: go with Carly
- An AI employee with its own identity across Slack and WhatsApp: Ako
- One agent owning a whole responsibility for a small business: Righthand
- An agent inside your desktop apps: Lava
- Building your own assistants: Lindy
- Metered capacity for one person: Tasklet
- Research and one-off projects: Manus
- A text-first EA for one founder: Sabi
If the calls you want handled are business calls, Carly Phone gives a company its own numbers, calling, texting and an AI receptionist, set up by the Carly team. Book a call to scope it.
FAQ
How much does Oz AI cost?
Oz is priced per seat plus pooled credits, on the monthly toggle: Solo $39, Team $59 and Business $89 per seat a month, with 800, 1,500 and 3,000 credits per seat and overage from $0.12 down to $0.08 a credit. Annual billing takes two months off. Carly runs Zapier-style workflows free, and its AI agents start at $35 a month.
Is Oz the same as Anyreach?
Oz is Anyreach’s AI teammate product. Anyreach itself sells voice and text agents that answer calls and messages for customer-facing teams. The I Done This productivity library also now lives on Oz’s blog.
Does Oz send email as me?
Oz drafts in the thread and posts an approve card before anything external goes out, and it emails from its own address. Carly sends from your own Gmail or Outlook, so the reply carries your name, your signature and your thread history.
What is the best Oz alternative for a team?
Carly. Build an agent once, connect the team’s inboxes and calendars, and let workflows run on events for everyone. Ako is the closest alternative if you specifically want a teammate with its own Slack handle.
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