What are the best alternatives to Hyground?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Hyground among SRE and DevOps agents are Doctor Droid, Itential, NudgeBee, NeuBird. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Hyground have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Hyground publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: Hyground holds independently certified ISO/IEC 27001 information security management. Administrators configure the agent's access per connected system and which write actions need confirmation, and private sessions are closed to other users. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Can Hyground be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Hyground publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: Hyground is self hosted from one Helm chart into the customer's own cluster on Kubernetes 1.27+ (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, K3s), and it can run air gapped. The vendor never receives, stores or proxies the customer's operational data. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Hyground give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Hyground publishes public evidence of tracing, observability and audit logging into agent runs, so a team can see what an agent did and why. Evidence basis: A Tools panel on each reply lists every tool call, a Show command option reveals exactly what the agent ran, and the tool responses show what each system returned. Every step of the investigation is logged. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Hyground

Q: How much does Hyground cost?

Hyground sells a flat annual license priced by infrastructure size, with no per seat charges, per investigation credits or usage metering; the rate is quoted, LLM costs are paid to the model provider, and a public sandbox is available.

Q: Who is Hyground for?

Regulated European enterprises, DevOps and SRE teams, Enterprise IT operations managing high availability systems

Also known as: Hyground GmbH

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SRE / DevOps agentindependentVerified 2026-09-29

Entry priceFlat annual license priced by infrastructure size; no per seat charges, per investigation credits or usage metering; rate not publishedFull pricing detail

Hyground is a self hosted AI SRE agent for European enterprises that runs from one Helm chart in the customer's cluster on the customer's own models, opens investigations from alerts and schedules, and asks before any write action.

Hyground is a self hosted AI SRE agent built in Hamburg for regulated European enterprises. It installs from one Helm chart into the customer's own Kubernetes cluster (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift or K3s) and runs air gapped if required. The company never receives, stores or proxies the customer's operational data. It works with any model endpoint that speaks the OpenAI compatible API, from Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Bedrock to self hosted models, with model costs paid to the provider.

Alerts from Alertmanager, Grafana, Datadog or PagerDuty open investigations through a webhook, scheduled sessions run recurring checks such as cost reports and CVE triage, and investigations fan out across every cluster. The agent reads live cluster state, the customer's MCP servers and HTTP APIs, and documentation in Confluence, Git and Artifactory, and returns ranked likely causes linked to the log lines, metrics and deploys behind them.

A Tools panel shows every tool call and the exact command run. It is read only by default. Administrators enable write capabilities and choose which need confirmation, and the session owner approves each one on a card showing the full command. Teams capture solved problems as Skills that run the same steps every time. The agent does not keep memories between sessions.

Hyground holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification and sells a flat annual license sized to infrastructure, with no seat charges, credits or usage metering, and a public sandbox.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://hyground.ai/

Funding status

Hyground raised a 3 million euro pre seed round in March 2026 from Partech, Adesso Ventures, Angel Invest and Plug and Play. It is based in Hamburg, Germany, and was spun out of MaibornWolff.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

Autonomous incident investigation and root cause analysisSelf hosted AI SRE for regulated industriesOperational knowledge capture and reusable skillsKubernetes and cloud operationsFinOps and SecOps (expanding)

Target customers

Regulated European enterprisesDevOps and SRE teamsEnterprise IT operations managing high availability systems

Deployment options

Self-hostedOn-premises (air-gapped capable)Private cloudBring your own cloud

Integrations

Hyground installs in Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, K3s) and takes alerts from Alertmanager, Grafana, Datadog and PagerDuty by webhook. The agent calls the customer's own MCP servers and HTTP APIs, reads Confluence, Git and Artifactory documentation, and fetches allowlisted URLs, with any OpenAI compatible model endpoint.

In practice

Your regulator will not let operational data leave your perimeter. Hyground runs from one Helm chart in your own cluster, air gapped if needed, on your own models.

Monitoring fires at night. The same alert webhook opens a Hyground investigation that returns ranked causes linked to the log lines and deploys behind them.

You want an agent that asks before it changes anything. Hyground is read only by default and shows the full command on a confirmation card before any enabled write runs.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://hyground.ai/ https://hyground.ai/product/overview https://hyground.ai/company https://partechpartners.com/news/hyground-raises-3m-pre-seed-round-to-build-the-sovereign-sre-agent-for-enterprise-it-operatons https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hyground

Agentic Index coverage score

10.5 / 14 capabilities · 75%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
The agent reaches Kubernetes clusters, the customer's own MCP servers in cluster, custom HTTP APIs with method and path rules, and documentation in Confluence, Git and Artifactory, with access configured by an administrator per connected system and write capabilities enabled explicitly. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/whose-access-the-agent-usesread 2026-09-29
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Teams turn procedures into Skills that run the same steps every run, on demand or on schedules, and investigations fan out across every cluster the customer runs. The customer defines the step sequence itself. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
The agent reads existing documentation from Confluence, Git repositories, Artifactory and uploaded files alongside live cluster state. There is no maintained index or graph over that knowledge. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
The agent is read only by default. Administrators enable write capabilities and decide which write actions need confirmation, and before running one of those the agent asks through a confirmation card showing the full command, which only the session owner can approve or deny. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/whose-access-the-agent-usesread 2026-09-29
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
Hyground holds independently certified ISO/IEC 27001 information security management. Administrators configure the agent's access per connected system and which write actions need confirmation, and private sessions are closed to other users. Hyground does not say how users sign in, and it offers no SSO or user roles. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/whose-access-the-agent-usesread 2026-09-29
Observability & Auditability	Full
A Tools panel on each reply lists every tool call, a Show command option reveals exactly what the agent ran, and the tool responses show what each system returned. Every step of the investigation is logged. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/check-the-agents-workread 2026-09-29
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
The agent does not retain memories between sessions. It uses recall only when a user points it at earlier work, searching the application's session history. Skills are procedures that people write as instructions for the agent. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/what-the-agent-remembersread 2026-09-29
Deployment & Data Residency	Full
Hyground is self hosted from one Helm chart into the customer's own cluster on Kubernetes 1.27+ (AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, K3s), and it can run air gapped. The vendor never receives, stores or proxies the customer's operational data. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs	Partial
Skills are procedures the customer's teams write and share, turning solved problems into steps others can run, and Hyground describes jobs such as CVE blast radius, RBAC drift and right sizing. The customer assembles these Skills itself, and Hyground ships no skill catalog of its own. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
When the customer's monitoring fires, the same webhook opens an investigation. Alerts from Alertmanager, Grafana, Datadog and PagerDuty start sessions, and scheduled sessions run recurring checks such as cost reports and CVE triage. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Model Flexibility & Routing	Full
The customer brings its own model, meaning any endpoint speaking the OpenAI compatible API, including Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, self hosted models and LiteLLM, and pays model costs to the provider. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility	Partial
An inbound alert webhook opens an investigation, which lets outside systems drive the platform. There is no API reference, SDK or Hyground MCP server with a published endpoint and auth. The customer MCP servers and HTTP APIs it connects to are integrations the agent calls. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Users rate replies and flag what a reply got wrong, and guidance shows how to check each claim against a tool result. There is no evaluation harness, scored tests or learning loop, and the sandbox is for trying the product. Sourcedocs.hyground.ai/user-guide/check-the-agents-workread 2026-09-29
Browser / Computer-use	Partial
A WebFetch tool fetches allowlisted URLs at run time and converts HTML to Markdown. That is a headless fetch, and the agent drives no browser or desktop. Sourcehyground.airead 2026-09-29

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Recent platform changes

2026-07-07·Agent capabilityVerified

Hyground released Omni, a major 2.0 rearchitecture that transitions the platform from a single-cluster agent model to a unified, multi-cluster AI agent. The update introduces a real-time topology map that allows the agent to reason across up to 20,000 nodes and supports arbitrary workloads such as ECS, virtual machines, and serverless functions.

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View all 1 change for Hyground →Tracked since Jul 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Flat annual license priced by infrastructure size; no per seat charges, per investigation credits or usage metering; rate not published

annual license scaled by infrastructure size, with no usage or per seat fees

Trial available

Cost watchouts

LLM usage is billed by the customer's own model provider, outside the license, and the self hosted deployment runs on the customer's infrastructure; the license grows with infrastructure size.

Variable cost rationale

Explicitly no usage fees and no per seat charges; a flat annual license scaled only by infrastructure size makes cost predictable with minimal variable exposure.

Overage / add-ons

No usage metering; the license is sized to infrastructure

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Public sandbox at sandbox.hyground.ai plus a scheduled demo

Lowest paid plan

Annual infrastructure sized license; rate via sales

Key ambiguities

The pricing model is clearly public (annual license by infrastructure size, no usage or per seat fees), but the specific license rate is not published.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-29

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Alternatives to Hyground

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NudgeBee11.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
NeuBird11.0 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
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Bluebricks10.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence

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