GoClawvsHive
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
GoClaw
NextLevelBuilder · Agent harness
MCP
Panel
5.53 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.0
- Cost
- 5.2
- Longevity
- 5.0
“It reaches you across seven messaging channels, so there is now nowhere left to hide from your own assistant.”
Hive
tt-a1i · Agent harness
Panel
5.51 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 5.8
- Longevity
- 4.7
“There is a paired-phone remote mode, so you can now be the bottleneck from anywhere in the building.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | GoClaw | Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | YesAgents act through tools and can drive the Claude and Codex CLIs as providers; GoClaw itself is an agent platform rather than a repository editor. | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | YesFiles are changed by the CLI agents Hive runs as PTY processes, not by Hive itself. |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral, xAI, MiniMax, DashScope, Claude CLI, Codex, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, Hermes |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesAny OpenAI-compatible endpoint can be configured as a provider, which covers a local server, though no specific local runtime is named in the README. | 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 | No | No |
| License | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | BUSL-1.1 |
| GitHub stars | 3,638 | 557 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | GoClaw | Hive | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.8 | 6.0 | Hive — Pick Hive if your tasks are big enough to split between several agents; pick a single agent session if you would only be splitting them to look busy. |
| El Crítico | 5.3 | 5.0 | GoClaw — To run an assistant you now operate a multi-tenant database with a vector extension, and nothing documented bounds what the three memory tiers keep or for how long. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 5.8 | GoClaw — The turn is decomposed into eight named stages, context through summarize, which makes the control loop a documented artefact rather than an emergent property of one prompt. |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 5.8 | Hive — 497 stars around a wrapper over six other vendors' command-line agents: the coordination is the product, and coordination is the layer with the shortest half-life. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 4.8 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 5.5 | 6.0 | Hive — It went from Apache-2.0 to BUSL-1.1 at an alpha release, so what I install now is source-available with a five-year wait before the licence becomes an open one. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.