49 Agents IDEvsAgor
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
49 Agents IDE
49Agents · Agent harness
Panel
6.30 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.0
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 5.0
“A heads-up display shows Claude API usage per machine, so now you can watch the money leave from several rooms at once.”
Agor
Preset · Agent harness
MCP
Panel
6.34 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 5.5
“Multiplayer with live cursors, so your colleagues can now watch you argue with a robot in real time.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | 49 Agents IDE | Agor |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesFiles are changed by the CLI agents running in the canvas terminals; 49 Agents adds Monaco editor panes and a git graph on top. | Yes |
| Git operations | YesThe canvas shows a git graph and Beads issue tables; commits and pull requests are made by the agent in its terminal. | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | YesExecution is configurable as trusted local, a fail-closed sandbox, or delegated to an external runner; Docker is one documented install path. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) |
| Bring your own model | Yes | YesAgor ships no model of its own; the model comes from whichever agent CLI or SDK the session is configured to use. |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | BUSL-1.1 | BSL-1.1 |
| GitHub stars | 620 | 1,420 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | 49 Agents IDE | Agor | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.3 | 49 Agents IDE — Pick it when several agent CLIs across more than one machine are already your normal day; pick a single-terminal manager if they are not. |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 5.8 | 49 Agents IDE — Broadcast mode types the same keystrokes into several real shells at once, and nothing documented scopes that to a subset of them. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 6.3 | Agor — Business Source License 1.1 from a company whose actual product is elsewhere, which makes this a strategic side project with a licence designed to stop competitors hosting it. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 6.3 | Agor — Self-hosted with role-based access scoped to branches, which is a real access-control answer, and there is no unattended execution, so it never becomes a pipeline. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 6.3 | 49 Agents IDE — BUSL-1.1 with a use grant, converting to MIT on 2030-02-26, and my own logins in every pane; what is missing is anywhere to hang an MCP server. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.