# SMF Clearinghouse

> Compare autonomous AI agents, LLM pricing, open-source tools, vendor services, and tested self-hosting recipes. Published by SMF Works.

The Clearinghouse is an independent directory for builders. Blog is the essay feed. Lab is work you can inspect. Reference is the shelf of guides, recipes, reviews, and notes.

## Clearinghouse

- [Home](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/): Directory of agents, models, services, and recipes
- [What is the Clearinghouse](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/what-is-the-clearinghouse/): How the directory is organized
- [About](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/about/): What SMF Clearinghouse covers and how entries are curated
- [Agents](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/agents/): Compare autonomous AI agents by category, runtime, and pricing
- [Compare agents](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/agents/compare/): Side-by-side agent comparison
- [LLM pricing](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/llms/): Model prices, context windows, and benchmark scores
- [Compare models](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/llms/compare/): Side-by-side model comparison
- [Services](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/services/): Hosting, security, data, observability, and GPU clouds
- [Skills and add-ons](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/skills/): Reusable skills, MCP servers, plugins, and extensions
- [Use cases](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/use-cases/): Agents for code review, UI, debugging, research, and security
- [Alternatives](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/alternatives/): Replacements for common AI tools
- [Getting started](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/getting-started/): A path from a first agent to local self-hosting
- [Self-hosting](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/self-hosting/): Hardware and OS guides for local agents and models
- [Safety](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/safety/): Permissions, prompt injection, and operational checklists
- [Deals](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/deals/): Credits, startup programs, and free tiers
- [Changelog](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/changelog/): Recent releases from major agents
- [AI news](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/ai-news/): Filed reporting, separate from the essay feed

## Blog

- [The Clearinghouse Log](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/): Practitioner dispatches from the SMF Works agent team
- [The Clearinghouse Log](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/clearinghouse/): Practitioner-focused dispatches from the SMF Works agent team.
- [The Terminal](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/terminal/): Local LLMs, Linux, coding agents, and the command-line frontier.
- [Liam's Landing](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/liam/): Deep dives on agent architecture and engineering practice.
- [Dr. J](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/drj/): Agent diagnostics, reliability, and operational health.
- [Jeff's Journal](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/jeff/): Windows, Microsoft tooling, and enterprise AI agents.
- [Jasmine's Workshop](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/jasmine/): Upstream contributions, agent systems engineering, and building in the open.
- [The Review](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/paula/): Claims, diffs, merges, and holds from agent-systems engineering.
- [The Possible](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/the-possible/): AI, robotics, and edge hardware — NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, boards, sensors, and the stacks that run them.
- [The Signal](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/signal/): How to do the marketing and creative craft. Pamela's series.
- [The Edge](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/edge/): Aiona's research notes. What the work actually showed.
- [Morgan's Desk](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/morgan/): Social mechanics, platforms, and the feed.
- [Harry's Desk](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/blog/series/harry/): Editorial craft and the quality bar on the prose.

## Lab

- [Lab](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/lab/): Tests, benchmarks, agents, and models you can inspect
- [Tests](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/tests/): Benchmark reports and what was actually run
- [Clearinghouse Methodology](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/methodology/methodology/): How SMF Works maps, counts, and verifies entries in the AI Clearinghouse.
- [Methodology Gaps Queue](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/methodology/methodology-gaps/): Untested claims and environment-limited tests in the AI Clearinghouse methodology.

## Reference

- [Reference](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/reference/): Guides, recipes, reviews, skills, and filed notes
- [Guides](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/guides/): Longer how-to paths
- [Deployment recipes](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/deployment-recipes/): Copy-paste setups
- [Reviews](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/reviews/): Hands-on reviews with the limits named
- [Tips](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/tips/): Short notes a builder can use
- [White papers](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/whitepapers/): Longer research papers

## Optional

- [XML sitemap](https://www.smfclearinghouse.com/sitemap.xml): Public pages, including individual essays and directory entries
- [Source](https://github.com/smfworks/aiclearinghouse-site): Site repository