AWS TransformvsKortix
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
AWS Transform
Amazon Web Services · Autonomous SWE
#125
Panel
6.00 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 5.7
- Cost
- 4.7
- Longevity
- 8.2
“It migrates Fujitsu GS21 mainframes, a sentence that will find exactly the four people who needed to read it.”
Kortix
Kortix · Autonomous SWE
#156OSSMCP
Panel
6.48 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.7
- Cost
- 6.2
- Longevity
- 6.5
“Suna grew up, changed its name to Kortix, and now files change requests like the rest of us.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | AWS Transform | Kortix |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | cloud | cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | web | macos, linux, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesAWS describes specialised agents per domain (mainframe, .NET, VMware, discovery and planning) working across the phases of a transformation. | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Amazon Bedrock | any |
| Bring your own model | No | Yes |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | usage | mixed |
| Starts at | n/a | $40/mo |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | Yes |
| License | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | n/a | 20,240 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | AWS Transform | Kortix | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.3 | Kortix — Pick Kortix if you want every agent session on its own branch in an isolated cloud machine; pick OpenHands if you would rather not think in credits at all. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.5 | AWS Transform — A migration fails quietly through changed behaviour, not a stack trace, and the service documentation describes no verification step that would catch it. |
| El Profesor | 6.0 | 6.5 | Kortix — Configuration is a kortix.yaml scaffolded into a repository you own, with agents, shared skills, company memory and connectors stored as versioned files rather than platform state. |
| La Inversora | 8.0 | 7.0 | AWS Transform — Billed straight through the AWS account, and the pricing page did not render a readable rate card at listing, which is a strong position and a weak disclosure. |
| La Jefa | 6.8 | 5.5 | AWS Transform — Seats are the wrong unit here; this is a programme billed to an account we already hold, with identity and audit inherited from the cloud contract legal signed. |
| El Hacker | 3.5 | 7.8 | Kortix — Apache-2.0, an MCP client, and a curl install for a thing I can also self-host, which is most of what I ask, minus any local model path. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.