CompozyvsHive
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Compozy
Compozy · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.53 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 5.5
“It is a daemon, so the correct verb for stopping your coding agent is now kill.”
Hive
Aden · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.52 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 7.0
- Longevity
- 6.2
“Ships a stock market where the community shorts the jobs it expects AI to take, which is either a demo or a hedge.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Compozy | Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | 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 | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any | any |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 2,789 | 11,102 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Compozy | Hive | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 6.0 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 7.0 | 7.0 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 6.0 | Hive — Aden is a Y Combinator company selling a hypervisor and secure desktops for agents, with the free runtime as the funnel and a discovery call as the price list. |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 5.3 | Compozy — Free at any headcount and that is the problem: sixty independent background processes on macOS and Linux only, with nothing central to see, stop or audit. |
| El Hacker | 8.5 | 8.0 | Compozy — MIT, one Go binary, and a Unix domain socket with structured command-line output, so I can pipe the thing into anything without asking permission. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.