Relay
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“A self-hosted OpenClaw instance (or other solutions in the future) with Relay would be a good alternative to Claude Cowork.”
“I was also delighted to discover Relay”
Show 3 more
“lets you sync / share files based on directory (vs. the whole vault)”
“Relay does a good job of automatically partitioning money”
“There are lots of great reasons to adopt Relay!”
Caveats and dissent
“I think this is one of the biggest misses in Relay”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Shameless plug, I've been building Relay for this exact reason.”
“i build a tool called relay”
“(I'm the developer of Relay / https://relay.md )”
“Note that you can self-host a Relay server and join it to our network.”
“30–50% fewer tokens, context is always current.”
“We've been building something in this space”
Threads where it came up
- GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over 6 mentions
- Obsidian Sync now has a headless client 3 mentions
- If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2026) 1 mention
- The Future of Obsidian Plugins 1 mention
- Show HN: Relay – The open-source Claude Cowork for OpenClaw 1 mention
Data: relay.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“A self-hosted OpenClaw instance (or other solutions in the future) with Relay would be a good alternative to Claude Cowork.”
“I was also delighted to discover Relay”
“lets you sync / share files based on directory (vs. the whole vault)”
“Relay does a good job of automatically partitioning money”
Reminds me a lot of Grafast too, a new stab at this the people that made postgraphile had. I liked using graphile, haven't needed to rewrite or start a new project yet for grafast. * https://grafast.org/
“There are lots of great reasons to adopt Relay!”
“JS and fragments are statically associated in Relay”
“I think this is one of the biggest misses in Relay”
“I use GraphQL because I really want to use Relay.”
“You should be using Relay[0] or Isograph[1] on the frontend”