# Crush vs Vibe-Trading (slim)

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to Crush's 56.5 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Crush: C 56.5, rank #725 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.min.md
- Vibe-Trading: B 62.2, rank #502 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md
- Crush, good for Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 56 against 47. Also No incidents deducted, where Vibe-Trading loses 4 points for them.
- Vibe-Trading, good for A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 54; Schema & documentation, 72 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 52; Security & auth, 70 against 44; Payments & pricing, 60 against 55. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Crush | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 54 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 52 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crush | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Charm | HKUDS |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available) | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-21 |
| Popularity | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |