OpenABCodevsViden
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
OpenABCode
MatrixMap AI · Terminal agent
#176OSS
Panel
5.91 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 6.7
- Longevity
- 5.0
“Its default rules send review work to one vendor and everything else to another, which is diplomacy rather than engineering.”
Viden
wikieden · Terminal agent
#212OSS
Panel
5.94 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.7
- Usefulness
- 5.5
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 4.8
“The cockpit displays provider health, so you can watch in real time the outage that is ruining your afternoon.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | OpenABCode | Viden |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | YesViden ships a web tool in its shared runtime path; it is not a full browser- automation agent. |
| Sandboxed execution | NoOpenABCode has no permission system of its own; the docs describe running it under a Gondolin micro-VM, plain Docker or OpenShell for isolation. | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini | DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| 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 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 427 | 87 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | OpenABCode | Viden | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.3 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.5 | OpenABCode — It ships no permission system of its own, and the documentation answers that by describing micro-VM, Docker and policy-sandbox patterns you set up yourself. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 6.5 | Viden — Every tool runs through one shared runtime path and every mutating action is mediated before it executes, which places the policy at a single inspectable point. |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 4.3 | OpenABCode — 358 stars and a product whose function is arbitrage between three model vendors, any one of which can price the arbitrage away. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 5.5 | Viden — Transcripts, task events and artifacts are stored locally by default, which answers where the data lives and leaves me with sixty copies of it. |
| El Hacker | 7.0 | 7.3 | Viden — MIT, and a local runtime sits behind the same provider interface as the hosted ones, so switching to my own weights is a setting rather than a different code path. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.