cmuxvsMoltis
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
cmux
Manaflow · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.61 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.”
Moltis
moltis-org · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.58 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 6.3
- Longevity
- 6.3
“Open source and written in Rust, so you can audit exactly how it runs sandboxed commands on your host.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | cmux | Moltis |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos | macos, linux, windows, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | Yes |
| Git operations | NoThe sidebar displays branch and pull request status but cmux performs no git operations itself. | Yes |
| Browser control | Yes | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | 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. | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Amp, Aider) | OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot |
| Bring your own model | No | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | free |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 27,557 | 2,881 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | cmux | Moltis | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 8.3 | Moltis — Moltis is for the developer who wants a self-hosted, secure agent server with extensive features out of the box and is willing to manage their own infrastructure. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 8.3 | Moltis — Moltis claims security through sandboxing, but its primary installation method is a piped shell script, a known risk. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.3 | cmux — Attention routing is built on OSC 9, 99 and 777 escape sequences rather than a private hook, which is the design choice most likely to outlast the agents it hosts. |
| La Inversora | 6.0 | 4.8 | cmux — Twenty-six thousand stars and an optional supporter tier: enormous attention converted into a donation box, which is not a revenue model. |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 2.8 | 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 | 7.5 | 9.0 | Moltis — Moltis is a real agent server: MIT licensed, written in Rust, runs local models, and executes tools in a proper sandbox. It's built to be owned. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.