amuxvsHive
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
amux
Mixpeek · Agent harness
Panel
5.82 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.2
- Usefulness
- 6.0
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 4.3
“You can peek into a peer's terminal before interrupting it, which is more courtesy than most colleagues extend.”
Hive
tt-a1i · Agent harness
Panel
5.51 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 5.8
- Longevity
- 4.7
“There is a paired-phone remote mode, so you can now be the bottleneck from anywhere in the building.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | amux | Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | YesFiles are changed by the CLI agents Hive runs as PTY processes, not by Hive itself. |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | YesCron-style schedules and self-pacing autonomous loops run unattended; no CI integration is documented. | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Ollama) | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, Hermes |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesOllama is listed among the agent runtimes a worker can use. | 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 | No | No |
| License | MIT with Commons Clause | BUSL-1.1 |
| GitHub stars | 513 | 557 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | amux | Hive | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.0 | amux — Pick amux if you want a fleet of agents working overnight with a board to wake up to; pick Crystal if you would rather supervise a couple of them yourself. |
| El Crítico | 5.5 | 5.0 | amux — The watchdog restarts crashed sessions and replays the last message, so a failing agent is resurrected rather than reported and the failure never surfaces. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 5.8 | amux — Completion requires evidence and verification requires a second worker's check, which is a two-stage protocol whose value depends on the reviewers being independent. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 5.8 | Hive — 497 stars around a wrapper over six other vendors' command-line agents: the coordination is the product, and coordination is the layer with the shortest half-life. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 4.8 | amux — There is no licence fee and no right to resell it either, and no CI integration is documented, so it schedules its own work outside anything I already monitor. |
| El Hacker | 6.5 | 6.0 | amux — One Rust binary with a SQLite store, model or provider swappable mid-run without losing context, and Ollama listed among the worker runtimes. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.