CC GUIvscmux
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
CC GUI
CodeMoss AI · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.94 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 7.3
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 6.0
“Session history has search, favourites and export, so you can now bookmark your favourite conversation with a robot.”
cmux
Manaflow · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.62 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 6.0
“A terminal for coordinating many agents on exactly one operating system, so the agent wars are settled by what laptop you were issued.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | CC GUI | cmux |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | YesThe plugin itself is a front end; command execution and file editing happen in the CLI engine it launches. | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | No |
| Git operations | No | NoThe sidebar displays branch and pull request status but cmux performs no git operations itself. |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesA built-in agent system automates complex tasks and the plugin can switch between eight different CLI engines. | YesNative panes for Claude Code Teams and oh-my-opencode orchestration; cmux runs and watches the agents rather than running an agent loop of its own. |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, OpenAI, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek, OpenCode | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Amp, Aider) |
| Bring your own model | Yes | No |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | free |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| GitHub stars | 6,759 | 27,557 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | CC GUI | cmux | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.3 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.5 | cmux — A programmable browser lives inside the same application that hosts your agents and your remote sessions, and no sandbox is recorded anywhere on the row. |
| El Profesor | 7.5 | 6.8 | CC GUI — The listing documents its own network path: requests go direct to the official API unless a proxy is set, the route is labelled first, and no credential is read without a dialog. |
| La Inversora | 7.3 | 6.0 | CC GUI — 5,809 stars in under a year, MIT, no meter and no seat, published by CodeMoss AI. The asset is marketplace attention, and attention is convertible if the vendor wants it to be. |
| La Jefa | 5.3 | 5.5 | cmux — It runs on macOS and nothing else, which decides this before cost, and there is no headless mode, no SSO and no audit trail to discuss afterwards. |
| El Hacker | 8.0 | 7.5 | CC GUI — MIT with a gradlew buildPlugin target, so the fork path is a clone away, and MCP servers attach to the panel rather than to whichever CLI happens to be running. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.