# Harness² vs Vibe-Trading (slim)

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to Harness²'s 41.6 (E) 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 Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Harness²: E 41.6, rank #1074 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness2.min.md
- Vibe-Trading: B 62.2, rank #502 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md
- Harness², good for Researchers who want to reproduce or extend the paper's per-task harness refinement on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench with OpenCode or Codex on Vertex AI. 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 20; Schema & documentation, 72 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 59; Security & auth, 70 against 44; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 82 against 36. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Harness² | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 36 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Harness² | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google (Google Research) | HKUDS |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation). | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-21 |
| Popularity | 4.2k stars | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |