cmuxvsStrix
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
6.60 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.”
Strix
Strix · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.97 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 7.5
- Cost
- 6.5
- Longevity
- 7.2
“A security tool whose install instructions begin with curl piped to bash, which is either irony or the first test.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | cmux | Strix |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos | macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | NoThe sidebar displays branch and pull request status but cmux performs no git operations itself. | No |
| 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 | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Amp, Aider) | GLM, GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Ollama, LM Studio |
| Bring your own model | No | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | mixed |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 27,557 | 65,976 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | cmux | Strix | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.0 | cmux — Pick it if you run several agents on a Mac and your terminal has become a graveyard of tabs; pick Warp if you want the terminal itself to be the agent. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.3 | 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 | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 6.0 | 7.5 | Strix — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and a logo wall with AWS, PayPal, Uber, Ford and Pfizer: a security company that sells the way security companies sell, references first. |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 6.3 | Strix — A GitHub Actions workflow runs a quick scan on every pull request with one command, the enterprise tier is self-hosted with a Slack channel and SLAs, and the price is a conversation. |
| El Hacker | 7.5 | 7.5 | no preference |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.