Smithery vs Olares

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Smithery compared with Olares
Detail	Smithery	Olares
What it does	Connect agents to thousands of tools and services with managed authentication and credentials	Open-source personal cloud OS for local AI
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	HK
Pricing model	Freemium	Not given
Pricing	Hobby: Free (50K RPCs/month, 3 Namespaces, Managed OAuth, Persistent connections); Pay as you Go: $10/mo (100K RPCs/month included, then $0.10 per 1K RPCs, 100 Namespaces, Managed OAuth, Persistent connections); Custom: Contact for pricing (Everything in Pay as you Go plus custom rate limits, uptime	Olares OS is free to install. Olares One hardware available; Black Friday promotion Save $300 per unit (pricing as of Nov 2025).
Key features	Managed OAuth and credential storage Persistent connections Public MCP registry with hundreds of pre-built services Compatible with Claude, Cursor, and MCP-compatible AI assistants Multiple namespace support RPC-based usage model	Pre-installed AI tools and self-hosted apps Hardware agnostic deployment Local data storage with no external transmission Encrypted backup through Olares Space Secure remote access to your system
What makes it different	Handles authentication and credential complexity for agents Unified interface to thousands of tools and services Public registry of MCP servers for easy discovery Free tier available for getting started	Runs AI locally on your own hardware with full data ownership
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	79 no change since last check	46 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	24	17
Citation Flow (Majestic)	55	38
Referring domains (Majestic)	3775	365

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