jcodevsOh My Coder
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
jcode
jcode · Terminal agent
#166OSSMCP
Panel
5.82 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.2
- Usefulness
- 5.7
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 4.2
“You can spawn several AI teammates in parallel, which is how you end up holding a standup with yourself.”
Oh My Coder
VOBC · Terminal agent
#217OSS
Panel
5.71 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.5
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 4.7
“It has a quest mode for asynchronous autonomous programming, which is a brave name for leaving something running unattended.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | jcode | Oh My Coder |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | per-model, up to 1M where the model supports it | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any | GLM, DeepSeek, Ollama, 12+ Chinese providers |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | n/a | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 38 | 192 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | jcode | Oh My Coder | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.5 | Oh My Coder — Pick Oh My Coder if the tools everyone recommends are unreachable from where you work; pick Claude Code the moment they are not, and the project documents that move for you. |
| El Crítico | 5.0 | 5.5 | Oh My Coder — Thirty-one specialist agents ship in the box and nothing published says how one gets chosen. A cast that large is a routing problem, and routing failures are silent. |
| El Profesor | 6.5 | 5.5 | jcode — A read-only Plan Mode produces a structured plan before any action, and the same tool implementations run locally, over SSH and inside Docker, which keeps behaviour identical across environments. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 5.5 | Oh My Coder — 187 stars, a permissive licence and no company. The only moat is geographic, and a moat made of somebody else's unavailability is not a moat you control. |
| La Jefa | 4.5 | 4.8 | Oh My Coder — A pip install across sixty machines and a web interface with no authentication described, no audit record and no central configuration to push. Free is not the expensive part. |
| El Hacker | 8.0 | 6.5 | jcode — MIT, a single Go binary, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including my own, and MCP servers declared in an mcp_servers block taking stdio and http entries. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.