# Droid CLI vs Vibe-Trading

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to Droid CLI's 59.1 (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 Droid CLI's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Droid CLI leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Droid CLI: grade C, 59.1/100, rank #636 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/droid-cli.json
- Vibe-Trading: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #502 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json
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## Which one, for what

### Droid CLI (C)

Good for: Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 79 against 72
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 67
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 47

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Vibe-Trading loses 4 points for them

Watch for: No free tier or trial was found. Plans start at $20 a month and included usage is stated only as rolling rate limits without numbers

### Vibe-Trading (B)

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 49
- Security & auth, 70 against 63
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 10

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Droid CLI | Vibe-Trading | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 49 | 63 | Vibe-Trading +14 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 72 | Droid CLI +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 67 | Droid CLI +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 70 | Vibe-Trading +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 60 | Vibe-Trading +50 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 82 | Vibe-Trading +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 47 | Droid CLI +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |
| **Total** | | **59.1 · C** | **62.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Droid CLI | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Factory | HKUDS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk | 37k stars |

## Verdicts

**Droid CLI.** `droid exec` is read-only unless `--auto` raises the autonomy level, with command rules, an optional kernel-enforced sandbox, JSON output and documented exit codes. No free tier, status page or security.txt was found, the source is closed, and usage metrics go to Factory by default.

**Vibe-Trading.** Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.

## Before you call either

### Droid CLI

1. Set `FACTORY_API_KEY` (starts `fk-`) from the API keys page in Factory settings for headless runs. Interactive use signs in through a browser
2. Start with `droid exec` and no flags for analysis. Add `--auto low` for edits and `--auto medium` for installs, tests and local commits
3. Use `--output-format json` and read `is_error`, `num_turns` and `session_id`. Treat a non-zero exit code as failure
4. Set `sandbox.enabled` to true before running on untrusted code. In `droid exec` a sandbox violation is denied without a prompt
5. Pin the version in CI with `npm install -g droid@<version>`, or set `FACTORY_DROID_AUTO_UPDATE_ENABLED=false` on standalone installs, which update themselves

### Vibe-Trading

1. Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain
2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server
4. Use `vibe-trading run -p "..." --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed
5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Droid CLI or Vibe-Trading?

Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Droid CLI's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Droid CLI leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust.

### Are Droid CLI and Vibe-Trading open source?

No open-source release is listed for Droid CLI. Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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