JugglervsPane
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Juggler
Juggler · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
7.12 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.7
- Usefulness
- 7.3
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 6.2
“It restores your session on relaunch, including the approval dialog you were pointedly ignoring, which is a form of cruelty.”
Pane
dcouple · Agent harness
OSS
Panel
6.91 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.7
- Usefulness
- 6.7
- Cost
- 8.2
- Longevity
- 6.2
“Pane Chat is a terminal for orchestrating your other terminals, which is where all of this was always going.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Juggler | Pane |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | YesEdits are made by the agent running in the pane; Pane supplies the isolated worktree and the diff viewer. |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesSessions branch into nested sub-threads, and multiple clients can attach to the same server session at once. | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code (CLI or API), OpenAI (Codex plan or API), GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Mistral, Z.ai, Ollama, OpenRouter, DeepSeek | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, any terminal agent |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesOllama is listed among the supported providers. | YesPane runs whatever CLI agent you point it at, so a locally served model is a matter of how that agent is configured. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| GitHub stars | 604 | 500 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Juggler | Pane | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.5 | 7.0 | Juggler — Pick it when you want to see what the model is doing and change it mid-flight; pick a terminal agent if a scrollback has never actually bothered you. |
| El Crítico | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 7.8 | 7.3 | Juggler — Context items, approvals, thread structure and the raw system prompt are laid out as inspectable columns, so the prompt is an object the user edits rather than an internal detail. |
| La Inversora | 6.5 | 6.3 | Juggler — 582 stars, no signup, no hosted tier and no revenue line: a good product with no mechanism by which anybody could pay for it, apparently on purpose. |
| La Jefa | 6.3 | 6.5 | Pane — Remote Pane puts the workspace on a machine we host and lets an engineer drive it from a phone browser, which is a security conversation first. |
| El Hacker | 8.0 | 7.8 | Juggler — AGPL-3.0, and the extension points are JavaScript I can fork: context items, slash commands, even the loop strategies, with MCP servers and Ollama sitting alongside them. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.