Cowork ForgevsSourceCraft Code Assistant
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Cowork Forge
sopaco · Autonomous SWE
#258OSS
Panel
4.76 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.0
- Usefulness
- 4.3
- Cost
- 6.5
- Longevity
- 4.0
“The engineer agent writes the code and then writes the delivery report, which is the most realistic simulation of a development team yet.”
SourceCraft Code Assistant
Yandex · Autonomous SWE
#255
Panel
4.51 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.0
- Usefulness
- 4.7
- Cost
- 4.7
- Longevity
- 4.5
“It creates the task before it does the work, so it now files its own tickets, which is more process rigour than most teams manage.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Cowork Forge | SourceCraft Code Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | local | cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux | web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | YesThe agent mode prepares a pull request and starts a deployment through the platform's own CI/CD. |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode | undisclosed |
| Bring your own model | Yes | No |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | mixed |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | No |
| License | MIT | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | 97 | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Cowork Forge | SourceCraft Code Assistant | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.0 | 5.3 | SourceCraft Code Assistant — Pick this only if you already build and deploy on this vendor's cloud; pick GitLab Duo if you want the same one-platform story somewhere your team can actually buy it. |
| El Crítico | 4.0 | 4.8 | SourceCraft Code Assistant — The advertised flow ends with the agent triggering a deployment, and nothing published describes a human gate between the generated change and production. |
| El Profesor | 5.0 | 4.5 | Cowork Forge — Each role applies an actor-critic pattern for self-review, with human validation inserted at critical decision points. The pattern is named; the criteria the critic applies are not. |
| La Inversora | 4.5 | 5.8 | SourceCraft Code Assistant — Tariffs are published on the platform in the vendor's own currency, which tells you the buyer this was built for, and it is a regional one. |
| La Jefa | 4.0 | 3.8 | Cowork Forge — Free for sixty engineers, macOS and Linux only, and there is no approval queue, no audit record and no way to answer who authorised the architecture it invented on Tuesday. |
| El Hacker | 5.8 | 2.8 | Cowork Forge — MIT and it drives Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, so the subscription I already hold does the work. There is no MCP client, so my own servers never enter the picture. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.