RoomotevsSWE-agent
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Roomote
Roo Code · Autonomous SWE
#123
Panel
6.71 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 6.3
“It takes tasks from Slack, Teams, Telegram and Discord, so it is now reachable in all four places you had muted.”
SWE-agent
Princeton University and Stanford University · Autonomous SWE
#144OSS
Panel
5.13 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 4.8
- Cost
- 6.5
- Longevity
- 3.7
“Maintenance-only and superseded by a version with mini in the name, which is the most honest changelog on this board.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Roomote | SWE-agent |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | cloud, sandbox | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | web | macos, linux |
| 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 | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | Yes | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenRouter, OpenAI | Claude, GPT, any LiteLLM-supported model |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | Yes |
| License | FCL-1.0-ALv2 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 272 | 20,455 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Roomote | SWE-agent | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.0 | 5.0 | Roomote — Pick this if you want agent work to arrive as an ordinary pull request; pick a supervised terminal agent if you would rather watch the work than review the result. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 4.8 | Roomote — A task starts from a chat message, and the row describes no model of who is permitted to send one or which repositories a given sender may target. |
| El Profesor | 7.3 | 5.8 | Roomote — The loop is clone into an isolated environment, write, run the tests, capture a screenshot, then open the pull request, which is an evidence chain rather than an assertion. |
| La Inversora | 7.0 | 4.0 | Roomote — The Roo Code team already own a large extension audience, and shipping both a self-hosted build and a managed cloud is the textbook route from that audience to revenue. |
| La Jefa | 6.5 | 3.8 | Roomote — No seat cost if we host it, and it already speaks to Linear, Jira, Sentry and Notion, which means it enters the workflow my sixty engineers are already in. |
| El Hacker | 6.8 | 7.5 | SWE-agent — MIT, Docker-sandboxed, any LiteLLM model including my local server, and every prompt in the repo; maintenance-only just means the code stops changing under me. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.