AllyvsKeen Code
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Ally
YassWorks · Terminal agent
#173OSS
Panel
5.63 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.7
- Usefulness
- 5.3
- Cost
- 7.7
- Longevity
- 4.7
“It can delete files and directories on request, which is the one instruction every agent follows perfectly on the first attempt.”
Keen Code
mochow13 · Terminal agent
#201OSSMCP
Panel
5.53 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 5.2
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 4.0
“A Go binary that you install through npm, which is the most honest summary of modern tooling currently on offer.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Ally | Keen Code |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | YesAlly's agent can access the internet through a tool; it is not a browser-automation agent. | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI, Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter | multiple providers |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | 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 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 241 | 70 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Ally | Keen Code | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.0 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 5.0 | 5.3 | Keen Code — The stated design principle is leaving out features a working engineer does not need, and the row does not say which features those are or who decided. |
| El Profesor | 5.8 | 6.0 | Keen Code — The project's own prompts and generated documents are committed under a version-controlled directory, which makes its construction inspectable in a way almost nothing else here is. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 4.5 | Ally — 242 stars and a single author, with the listed home page being a container registry entry rather than a product site, which is the whole positioning. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 4.8 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 7.0 | 6.8 | Ally — Apache-2.0, my key or nobody's, and it is built to run wholly on Ollama, with OpenRouter, Groq and Cerebras there when I want somebody else's silicon. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.