BladesvsJido
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Blades
go-kratos · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.30 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 5.0
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 6.2
“Named after the weapons Kratos carries in God of War, which is a lot of commitment for a package you import.”
Jido
Agent Jido · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.32 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.2
- Usefulness
- 4.7
- Cost
- 8.5
- Longevity
- 5.8
“An agent framework where the model is the optional dependency, which is one way to be immune to the hype cycle.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Blades | Jido |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | No |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek | any |
| Bring your own model | YesThe ModelProvider abstraction is documented as supporting custom models. | 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 | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 817 | 1,873 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Blades | Jido | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.5 | Jido — Pick Jido if your product already runs on the BEAM and you want agents that behave like the rest of it; pick LangGraph if your team writes Python. |
| El Crítico | 5.5 | 5.8 | Jido — The value proposition is one runtime and one language, which means adopting it is a platform decision, and there is no protocol surface to reach it from outside. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 7.3 | Jido — Effects are returned as directives for the runtime to execute rather than performed inline, which makes the decision path a pure function and therefore testable. |
| La Inversora | 6.3 | 5.5 | Blades — This belongs to an established open framework project rather than a startup, and 811 stars is a subproject's audience, not a market. |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 5.3 | Blades — Nothing to license across sixty seats because there is nothing to license: this is an import, and the operating cost is whatever my team builds on top of it. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 7.5 | Jido — Apache-2.0 and one line in mix.exs, but it speaks no MCP, so anything I already run has to be bridged by hand before these agents can use it. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.