HivevsSupacode
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Hive
tt-a1i · Agent harness
Panel
5.50 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.”
Supacode
Supabit · Agent harness
Panel
5.32 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 5.5
- Longevity
- 3.5
“The sidebar nests rows by branch and hoists the worktrees that need you, which is triage with considerably better typography.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Hive | Supacode |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesFiles are changed by the CLI agents Hive runs as PTY processes, not by Hive itself. | YesFiles are changed by the coding agent running in each pane; Supacode supplies the worktree, terminal and review surface. |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, Hermes | Claude, Codex, Copilot |
| 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 | No | No |
| License | BUSL-1.1 | unknown |
| GitHub stars | 557 | 2,391 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Hive | Supacode | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.0 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 5.0 | 5.5 | Supacode — It knows what each agent is doing by installing hooks into that agent's own configuration, which makes the status display dependent on three other vendors not changing their hook format. |
| El Profesor | 5.8 | 6.8 | Supacode — Sessions run inside a separate session daemon rather than as children of the application, so the interface is a viewer over state that outlives it. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 4.8 | 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 | 4.0 | Hive — No per-seat charge, remote phone access is off unless somebody turns it on, and Windows is rated tier two best-effort, which covers a large part of my fleet badly. |
| El Hacker | 6.0 | 4.8 | 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.