LatevsWrongStack
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Late
mlhher · Terminal agent
#49OSS
Panel
6.41 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 5.2
“It is primarily developed inside itself, which is either dogfooding or a hostage situation.”
WrongStack
WrongStack · Terminal agent
#85OSSMCP
Panel
6.44 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 7.7
- Longevity
- 5.3
“It ships six different user interfaces, so there is now a wrong way to run it to suit every mood.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Late | WrongStack |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | YesBrowser and end-to-end testing are among the 61 first-party built-in tools listed in the comparison table. |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesSubagents are enforced rather than optional: the orchestrator plans and spawns one ephemeral subagent per atomic edit. | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | YesA single-shot non-interactive query mode is documented; there is no dedicated CI action. |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | local models, DeepSeek, any frontier model | ~140 providers via models.dev, Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesThe stated goal is running real work on consumer hardware with tiny local models. | YesOne-command presets exist for Ollama, vLLM and LM Studio, and any custom base URL can be used to run fully on localhost. |
| 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 | NOASSERTION | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 440 | 358 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Late | WrongStack | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.3 | Late — Pick it if you want a small tool that starts instantly; pick Aider if you would rather have five years of accumulated documentation behind you. |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 5.3 | Late — It runs shell commands and edits files with no sandbox and no git integration, so the thing making the edit exits before you can ask it anything. |
| El Profesor | 7.0 | 6.8 | Late — The failure hypothesis is named rather than assumed: analysis output, compiler errors and file contents accumulate in one window until planning quality falls. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 5.3 | 6.0 | WrongStack — Nothing per seat, and a command centre aggregates sessions, agents, spend and worktrees across machines with per-agent budgets, which is the closest thing to a console anyone here ships. |
| El Hacker | 7.5 | 8.3 | WrongStack — MIT, roughly 140 providers pulled live from a public catalogue, presets for three local serving stacks, and a flag that boots the kernel fully offline with the extras switched off. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.