AgentOSvsholaOS
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
AgentOS
Smart Computer · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
5.53 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 4.2
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 4.7
“Propose, shadow, approve, apply, execute, receipt, audit: seven gates for the agent, and none for the human who typed the prompt.”
holaOS
Holaboss · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
5.54 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.2
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 6.0
- Longevity
- 5.0
“An operating system written in Electron, which is an operating system running inside a browser running inside your actual operating system.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | AgentOS | holaOS |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | YesClaude Code, Codex and the built-in agent run side by side over one shared memory. |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | multiple providers | Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable 5 |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | YesAny OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint can be configured. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | mixed |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $99/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 with additional terms |
| GitHub stars | 216 | 11,453 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | AgentOS | holaOS | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.5 | 5.5 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 5.3 | 5.3 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 5.5 | AgentOS — A single-threaded deterministic kernel whose worlds replay to identical state from an event log is a verification property, not a capability claim. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 5.5 | holaOS — The licence adds hosted-service and branding restrictions to Apache-2.0, which is open core with the one profitable path fenced off, and the tiers climb to $3,000 a month. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 4.5 | AgentOS — Zero per seat across sixty desks, a signed receipt for every action, and no console, no SSO and nothing that runs unattended. |
| El Hacker | 6.0 | 6.8 | holaOS — It calls itself Apache-2.0 with additional terms, which means source-available, not open source, and GitHub's detector agrees by refusing to name it. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.