KohakuTerrariumvsLegion
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
KohakuTerrarium
Kohaku Lab · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
6.54 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 8.0
- Longevity
- 5.8
“It has a Laboratory transport for splitting the host from the engine, so your creatures can now be observed remotely.”
Legion
Software Mansion · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.51 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 8.0
- Longevity
- 5.8
“It writes Lua to get work done in Elixir, which is two functional languages agreeing that a third one should take the blame.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | KohakuTerrarium | Legion |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | YesThrough the built-in file and editing tools that the bundled SWE creature uses. | Yes |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | YesLegion runs generated Lua or Elixir in its own sandbox; the README does not describe a container runtime. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Codex, API-key providers configured with kt config key set | multiple providers |
| 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 | KohakuTerrarium-1.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 511 | 220 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | KohakuTerrarium | Legion | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.0 | 6.8 | KohakuTerrarium — Pick it when you expect to build several agents rather than one; pick LangGraph if you would rather use the framework everyone else has already debugged. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.0 | KohakuTerrarium — A shell tool and file editing ship in the box, the sandbox does not, and no git operations are wired in, so a bad run writes straight to your working tree. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 7.8 | Legion — One evaluation can filter, branch and loop, so a sequence that costs a tool-calling agent a model round trip per step collapses into a single call. The claim is structural and checkable. |
| La Inversora | 6.3 | 6.3 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 5.5 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 6.8 | KohakuTerrarium — Apache-2.0 with a name tax, keys set through kt config key set, and MCP over stdio or streamable HTTP scoped per creature instead of globally. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.