AgynvsAgent Executor (AX)
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agyn
Agyn · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.61 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.8
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 6.3
“Serverless scale-to-zero with auto-termination on idle: the first coding agent that gets sent home for standing around.”
Agent Executor (AX)
Google · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.41 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 8.0
- Longevity
- 6.0
“It is a harness for running other people's harnesses, which is either good architecture or the beginning of a very deep stack.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Agyn | Agent Executor (AX) |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud, sandbox | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | linux, macos |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesFiles are changed by the agent container Agyn runs, such as the bundled Claude Code or Codex agent. | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | YesAgent actors run as stateful sandboxed environments provisioned from suspendable images. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | YesAgents are declared as Terraform resources and run as serverless workloads with scale-to-zero; there is no dedicated CI action. | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, any agent container | any |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | 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 | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 239 | 12,807 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agyn | Agent Executor (AX) | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.3 | Agent Executor (AX) — Pick AX if you are building the platform other people's agents run on; pick Container Use if you want isolated agent environments without a distributed controller. |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 6.0 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 7.3 | 7.0 | Agyn — The stated design principle is that credentials never enter the model context, with each conversation sandboxed and each MCP server isolated in its own container. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 6.5 | Agent Executor (AX) — A very large company publishing harness infrastructure under a permissive licence has no revenue question and an unusually large abandonment question. |
| La Jefa | 7.0 | 5.8 | Agyn — Zero licence cost across sixty seats, with role-based access, single sign-on and audit logs in the product, and spend caps set per agent, per team and per organisation. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 6.8 | Agyn — AGPL-3.0 means a fork outlives the vendor, the chart installs from an OCI registry with helm, and the provider keys stay mine because I am the one supplying them. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.