49 Agents IDEvsModerne
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
6.34 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.”
Moderne
Moderne · Agent harness
MCP
Panel
6.12 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 4.7
- Longevity
- 6.8
“It lands one change across a hundred thousand repositories, so a bad recipe has an unusually long attendee list.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | 49 Agents IDE | Moderne |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud | cloud, local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| 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. | YesChanges are expressed as recipes over the Lossless Semantic Tree, so a single reviewed recipe applies across every affected file and repository. |
| 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 | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent | undisclosed |
| Bring your own model | Yes | No |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | seat |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | BUSL-1.1 | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | 620 | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | 49 Agents IDE | Moderne | 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 | 7.5 | Moderne — Context is a Lossless Semantic Tree, a compiler-accurate representation of the source, so edits are computed over structure instead of inferred from tokens. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 7.0 | Moderne — The recipe engine is open source and the platform that runs it is not, which is a textbook funnel: adopt the free thing, buy the thing that makes it scale. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 6.3 | Moderne — There is no list price at all, so sixty seats is a phone call, and the thing that makes that call worth taking is the air-gapped edition. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 3.8 | 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.