Code AssistantvsEvener
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Code Assistant
stippi · Terminal agent
#113OSSMCP
Panel
6.13 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 5.5
- Cost
- 8.2
- Longevity
- 5.0
“The desktop UI is built on GPUI, so the agent that rewrites your code borrows its window from the editor you were told to switch to.”
Evener
Prime Radiant · Terminal agent
#182OSS
Panel
6.13 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 4.8
“It supports background jobs, so the agent can now be wrong while you are busy being wrong about something else.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Code Assistant | Evener |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | YesA --sandbox flag confines a session's file, process and network access; see docs/sandboxing.md. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google |
| Bring your own model | Yes | 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 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 182 | 167 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Code Assistant | Evener | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.5 | 6.8 | Evener — Pick this if you want to start work in a browser tab and finish it in a terminal; pick a single-surface agent if switching windows is not a problem you have. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 7.0 | Evener — Tool use goes through each provider's native calling interface rather than a parsed text convention, and the extension points are published as runtime contracts. |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 5.3 | Code Assistant — One author, 181 stars, no company name on the repository and nothing that could ever be billed. The bus factor is the entire risk model here. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 5.8 | Evener — Free across sixty desks, and the non-interactive command line means it can actually sit in a pipeline, which is more than most of this category manages. |
| El Hacker | 7.5 | 6.3 | Code Assistant — MIT, and it is both an MCP client and an MCP server, so it consumes my tools and also becomes one for another agent. That two-way position is rare here. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.