AgentlyvsWater
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agently
AgentEra · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
6.35 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 8.2
- Longevity
- 5.3
“The built-in actions include shell, Python, Node and SQLite, so the agent can now break four things without leaving the process.”
Water
Manthan Gupta · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.32 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 8.2
- Longevity
- 5.0
“It gives your agents try-catch-finally, which is how you can tell somebody has watched one of them fail in production.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Agently | Water |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local, sandbox | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | YesBrowser sessions are one of the reusable resources managed by Execution Resource providers; no browser-automation agent loop is documented. | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | YesSandboxing is listed among the infrastructure Water supplies around agents; the README does not name the backend. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | YesFlows run several agent tasks in parallel, over a DAG, or as nested subflows. |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | DeepSeek, OpenAI, Ollama, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint | agent-framework-agnostic (LangChain, CrewAI, Agno, OpenAI, Anthropic, custom) |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesThe README documents pointing the OpenAICompatible provider at a local Ollama server on http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1. | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 1,655 | 337 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agently | Water | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.8 | Water — Pick it if you already have agents in two different frameworks and need one thing to run them; pick a single framework outright if you are starting today. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 6.0 | Water — Sequential steps, parallel fan-out, conditionals, loops, map, explicit DAG edges and try-catch-finally are all expressed through a builder, which is a language rebuilt inside a language. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 5.5 | Agently — A small vendor, a permissive licence, no price and no hosted anything, so the survival question is entirely about one team's continued interest. |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 5.8 | Water — Approval gates are the feature that would let this into my estate, since a human sign-off inside an automated flow is what my change process already requires. |
| El Hacker | 7.5 | 6.8 | Agently — Apache-2.0, one pip install, MCP servers are ordinary actions, and the README documents pointing the provider at a local Ollama endpoint on 127.0.0.1. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.