Keen CodevsVogte
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Keen Code
mochow13 · Terminal agent
#201OSSMCP
Panel
5.52 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 5.2
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 4.0
“A Go binary that you install through npm, which is the most honest summary of modern tooling currently on offer.”
Vogte
piqoni · Terminal agent
#229OSS
Panel
5.61 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.3
- Usefulness
- 5.0
- Cost
- 7.7
- Longevity
- 4.3
“One subcommand dumps your entire repository context into a file, for when you would rather pay for the tokens by hand.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Keen Code | Vogte |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux |
| 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 | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | multiple providers | OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | 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 | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 70 | 183 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Keen Code | Vogte | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 6.3 | Vogte — Pick this if you write Go all day and want a tool that knows it; pick a general terminal agent the moment a second language appears in the repository. |
| El Crítico | 5.3 | 5.5 | Vogte — The sanity check after each change is a static vetting pass, which flags suspicious constructs and cannot tell you whether the patch it just applied actually works. |
| El Profesor | 6.0 | 6.5 | Vogte — Context is built by parsing the repository into syntax trees and compressing them, which is structural retrieval rather than similarity search over text fragments. |
| La Inversora | 4.5 | 5.3 | Vogte — A hundred and eighty-one stars, one author, and a market defined as people writing one language, which is a small denominator before anything else is considered. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 4.5 | Keen Code — Free across sixty desks with nothing to administer: no console, no identity integration, no audit record and no unattended run to put in a pipeline. |
| El Hacker | 6.8 | 5.5 | Keen Code — MIT, MCP servers and skills both supported, my own key against multiple providers, and a source tree small enough that reading all of it is a realistic plan. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.