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HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "harnessrouter/harnessrouter" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Workspace API key (sk-hr-) as a Bearer token from the product's server, never from a browser (https://harnessrouter.ai/docs/authentication). Keys are created in the console after a browser sign-up, can be held to one workspace or reach the whole organisation, and are revoked at once by DELETE /v1/orgs/{org}/keys/{id}. No OAuth or per-endpoint scopes found. The self-hosted Community Edition signs into its console with a username and password and needs no HarnessRouter key.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 with no card, for the console and configuring agents. Running tasks draws on top-up credit ($10 minimum, 5.5 per cent fee) or a plan, Developer $20, Production $200 or Scale $1,000 a month, each fully included as usage. Agent work is $0.020 an active minute on top-ups and $0.014 to $0.006 on plans, and model calls are at the provider's price or on your own keys (https://harnessrouter.ai/pricing.md, checked 2026-10-17). Self-serve payment is card-only.", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the pricing page or the UHP schema (checked 2026-10-17). Payment is by card for top-ups and plans.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3075, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://harnessrouter.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://harnessrouter.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter/blob/main/protocol/schema/uhp-2026-10-04.openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "apache-2.0", "api-key", "usage", "openapi", "llms-txt", "docker", "python", "streaming", "cloud-agent", "agent-skill" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 796, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 24, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 83, "security": 58, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-06, -5. Privately reported flaws fixed in public commits #416 to #429 on 6 and 7 October 2026. The gateway source names them GHSA-p6cq-54cg-8mpv (a bearer token that failed verification still reached internal routes, so anyone could rewrite any organisation's connections and routing; \"found live on the hosted service and closed there the same way, 2026-10-06\"), GHSA-qrr8-m92f-7vfp (identity headers trusted by default), GHSA-mw9j-m5jf-5r56 and GHSA-c5g7-c47h-f6c3 (server-side request forgery through git imports and upload addresses) and GHSA-rmh9-whjx-gfrc (secrets with quotes or non-ASCII characters left unredacted). A workspace key could also read, change and delete another workspace's harnesses, sessions and responses and mint an organisation-wide key (\"reported privately three times\"). All were fixed within days and described in the source. The advisory pages couldn't be read (GitHub answered 403), so whether they're published is unchecked, and the deduction is lower than an open cross-tenant flaw would get. Source https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter/blob/main/gateway/app.py" ], "verdict": "A product's server sends a task to a named harness and gets streamed progress, sessions and files back, under a published OpenAPI contract with idempotency keys and a closed set of error codes. No status page or request rate limit was found, running a task needs card-funded credit, and access-control flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026.", "bestFor": "A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID.", "strengths": [ "UHP is published as OpenAPI 3.1 and JSON Schema 2020-12 under Apache-2.0, with a 98-check conformance suite in the repository", "Every task call takes an Idempotency-Key, and the error envelope has a closed code set, with a retry rule per code", "Per-turn budgets (400 steps, 7,200 seconds and $10 by default) cap what one task can spend", "26 harnesses listed as available, including Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, OpenCode, goose and Qoder, behind one task contract", "202 tagged releases between 15 August and 16 October 2026, and the self-hosted Community Edition runs with no HarnessRouter account" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page found (status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and /status answers 404), and the terms give no service level without a signed order form", "No request rate limit is published. Only concurrency (one task at a time on Free) and task length (30 minutes, or 1 hour after a top-up) are stated", "Running a task on the hosted service draws on credit, and top-ups and plans are card-only, so an agent can't start without a person", "Privately reported access-control, SSRF and redaction flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026, one of them found live on the hosted service", "The hosted API serves UHP 2026-09-28 while the spec site's current version is 2026-10-04, and the conformance page counts 76 checks against 98 in the suite" ], "agentNotes": [ "Name the harness yourself. The task call is POST /{harness_id}/v1/responses, and HarnessRouter doesn't choose a harness for you", "Send a fresh Idempotency-Key with each new task, reuse it only for a retry of the same request, and recover from the session if a stream drops", "Call cancel to stop work. Closing the SSE connection leaves the agent running and billing", "Keep the Workspace API key on the server. The docs forbid calling the API from a browser with it", "Check each tool's enforcement in GET /v1/bases. On bases marked instruction, disabled_tools is a request to the model, not a block" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 83, "security": 58, "transparency": 78 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "docker run -d --name harnessrouter -p 127.0.0.1:3000:3000 -v harnessrouter:/data harnessrouter/harnessrouter", "http": "curl -N https://api.harnessrouter.ai/$HARNESS_ID/v1/responses -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HR_API_KEY\" -H \"Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"input\": \"Review this uploaded agreement and return a checklist.\", \"stream\": true}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/harnessrouter" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Developer plan, all $20 as usage", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "agent work $0.014 an active minute, one workspace" }, { "item": "Production plan, all $200 as usage", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "agent work $0.010 an active minute, five workspaces" }, { "item": "Scale plan, all $1,000 as usage", "unit": "month", "usd": 1000, "note": "agent work $0.006 an active minute, tracing included" }, { "item": "Agent work on top-up credit, per hour of active work", "unit": "session-hour", "usd": 1.2, "note": "$0.020 an active minute, billed by the second. Waiting on the model, the user or a queue isn't billed" }, { "item": "Tracing add-on", "unit": "month", "usd": 50, "note": "beta, included with Scale" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Lumentree Corporation", "domain": "harnessrouter.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-06-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The terms name Lumentree Corporation, a California corporation at 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, as the contracting party. The YC launch lists the company as Epsilla (Summer 2023), and the maintainer commits from an epsilla.com address.", "harnessrouter.ai was registered on 18 June 2026 and unifiedharnessprotocol.org on 12 August 2026 (registry RDAP, checked 2026-10-17).", "No status page. status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and harnessrouter.ai/status answers 404.", "harnessrouter.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. A disclosure policy is at /legal/security, and SECURITY.md in the repository names GitHub private reporting and contact@harnessrouter.ai.", "The changelog is the UHP specification's. HarnessRouter itself has 202 tags in the repository and no product changelog page was found.", "The terms forbid scraping or crawling except as allowed by the documentation, an API endpoint, robots.txt or written permission. robots.txt on harnessrouter.ai and unifiedharnessprotocol.org allows all paths." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.json", "live": { "slug": "harnessrouter", "probe": { "target": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:42.280344324Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 265, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 275, "p95ms24h": 359, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:11:55.703224248Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "783aeda2cd75" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:57.613043138Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fa9a36e3c1ac" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:53.558727976Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "af87474c34e0" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:55.591250792Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "501a6366c745" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:42.280344324Z" } }, "answer": "HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "parallax-agents", "name": "Parallax", "vendor": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.conifer.build/parallax/", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Parallax, from Conifer, is a macOS app with a Linux daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side on the owner's subscriptions. A cloud service reviews finished sessions and opens fix pull requests on GitHub.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json", "repo": "https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-releases", "license": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in to the app with GitHub or email and installs the Parallax GitHub App on chosen repositories. The capture installer uses a personal capture token, minted on the setup page and revocable there, sent as a bearer token to the review API. Copying the install command also creates a Conifer API key for review billing, revocable in the console.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free to download. Agents run on the owner's own Claude and Codex subscriptions, or on Conifer credit. Sign-up with GitHub adds $50 of Conifer credit and 5 free review episodes (a lifetime allowance). Each later episode uses one Parallax credit, priced only after sign-in. Gateway token prices are public at `GET https://api.conifer.build/v1/catalog`.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Parallax page, the Parallax docs, the products page or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-17). Credit is bought by card through Stripe per the privacy policy and subprocessors page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.conifer.build/docs/parallax/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.conifer.build/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent", "code.git" ], "tags": [ "closed-source", "desktop-app", "macos", "linux", "local", "hosted", "freemium", "llms-txt", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1056, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 26, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 29, "security": 43, "transparency": 48 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claim, seen 17 October 2026. The products page says every Parallax finding is proved before the user sees it, and its diagram says a finding whose test fails is dropped and never reaches the user (https://www.conifer.build/products/). Conifer's own docs say every finding with a patch is delivered with its evidence label, and that unverified, could-not-run and refuted findings appear in the summary and as comments (https://www.conifer.build/docs/parallax/review/). The docs are accurate, so the low end of the range." ], "verdict": "Parallax runs several coding agents in one app and reviews finished sessions in the cloud, labelling each finding by what a sandbox test established. The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user.", "bestFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.", "strengths": [ "Review findings carry an evidence label (proven, suite green, unverified, could not run, refuted), and a patch that regresses the suite gets no one-click suggestion", "Reviewers come from labs other than the one whose model wrote the code, picked per task by Conifer's router", "Retrying an episode uses no extra credit, a session is swept once per capture mark, and a fix PR is reused, never reopened or merged by Parallax", "Recall receipts, sweep lines and a review ledger show what each session was handed and what each review found", "Session data is kept 30 days by both the privacy policy and the docs, and Fly.io is named as the Parallax subprocessor" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page", "The review API is shown only as curl examples against `$PARALLAX_URL`, whose value is not published, with no OpenAPI or endpoint reference", "Capture uploads transcripts, tool output and source snapshots from every repository on a machine unless a local allowlist is set first", "The products page says every finding is proved before the user sees it, while the docs say unverified and refuted findings are also shown", "Episode credit prices appear only after sign-in, and there is no status page for Parallax, no security.txt and no public changelog" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it", "Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons", "On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository", "Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine", "Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 37.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 29, "security": 43, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 47 }, "connect": { "install": "d=$(mktemp -d) \u0026\u0026 curl -fsSLo \"$d/install.sh\" https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-releases/releases/latest/download/install.sh \u0026\u0026 sh \"$d/install.sh\"", "http": "curl -s -H \"authorization: Bearer $PARALLAX_TOKEN\" \"$PARALLAX_URL/v1/sweeps\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parallax-agents" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "domain": "conifer.build", "domainRegistered": "2026-05-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.conifer.build/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The terms (effective 13 August 2026) name Conifer Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and choose Delaware law. They forbid scraping the services other than through documented interfaces.", "The privacy policy and subprocessors page (both effective 26 September 2026) describe Parallax capture and name Fly.io as its processor. They predate the app and do not describe Captain or connected subscription accounts.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 7 May 2026 for conifer.build.", "www.conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt and conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026. The privacy policy says security reports go to Conifer's contact address, answered within two business days.", "conifer.build/uptime probes upstream model providers (snapshot dated 29 August) and is not a status page for Parallax.", "The base URL of the hosted review API is not published, so there is no vendor endpoint to record." ], "score": 47 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.json", "live": { "slug": "parallax-agents", "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.conifer.build/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:40.172071094Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e7a1bc464348" }, { "url": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:42.367634951Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "088449129cbc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:42.367634951Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation)", "b": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.", "b": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "0", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-16", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3.1k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (4)", "b": "2/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, HarnessRouter or Parallax?" }, { "answer": "HarnessRouter is open source (Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.). No open-source release is listed for Parallax.", "question": "Are HarnessRouter and Parallax open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 29", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 43", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 56", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 48" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Open source", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID.", "slug": "harnessrouter", "watchFor": "No status page found (status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and /status answers 404), and the terms give no service level without a signed order form" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 40 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.", "slug": "parallax-agents", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.multi-agent", "name": "Multi-agent orchestration" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Aider vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Amp vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Pi vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "goose vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": 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OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Amp vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Cline vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Devin vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "goose vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Harness vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Harness vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Muse Code vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Parallax vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Parallax vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Parallax vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-reflection-mirror" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 5, "edge": "parallax-agents", "harnessrouter": 35, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "parallax-agents": 40, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 54, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "parallax-agents": 29, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 73, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "parallax-agents": 42, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 58, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "parallax-agents": 43, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "parallax-agents", "harnessrouter": 25, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "parallax-agents": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 72, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "parallax-agents": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 24, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 72, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "parallax-agents": 48, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.min.md" }, "markdown": "HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do multi-agent orchestration.\n\n- HarnessRouter: grade D, 53.2/100, rank #796 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json\n- Parallax: grade F, 37.9/100, rank #1056 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 331 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### HarnessRouter (D)\n\nGood for: A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 29\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 43\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 56\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No status page found (status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and /status answers 404), and the terms give no service level without a signed order form\n\n### Parallax (F)\n\nGood for: A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 40 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HarnessRouter | Parallax | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 40 | Parallax +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 29 | HarnessRouter +54 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 42 | HarnessRouter +31 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 43 | HarnessRouter +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | Parallax +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 56 | HarnessRouter +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 48 | HarnessRouter +24 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.2 · D** | **37.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HarnessRouter | Parallax |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) | Conifer Solutions, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides. | Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 3.1k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**HarnessRouter.** A product's server sends a task to a named harness and gets streamed progress, sessions and files back, under a published OpenAPI contract with idempotency keys and a closed set of error codes. No status page or request rate limit was found, running a task needs card-funded credit, and access-control flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026.\n\n**Parallax.** Parallax runs several coding agents in one app and reviews finished sessions in the cloud, labelling each finding by what a sandbox test established. The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### HarnessRouter\n\n1. Name the harness yourself. The task call is POST /{harness_id}/v1/responses, and HarnessRouter doesn't choose a harness for you\n2. Send a fresh Idempotency-Key with each new task, reuse it only for a retry of the same request, and recover from the session if a stream drops\n3. Call cancel to stop work. Closing the SSE connection leaves the agent running and billing\n4. Keep the Workspace API key on the server. The docs forbid calling the API from a browser with it\n5. Check each tool's enforcement in GET /v1/bases. On bases marked instruction, disabled_tools is a request to the model, not a block\n\n### Parallax\n\n1. Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it\n2. Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons\n3. On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository\n4. Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine\n5. Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, HarnessRouter or Parallax?\n\nHarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Are HarnessRouter and Parallax open source?\n\nHarnessRouter is open source (Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.). No open-source release is listed for Parallax.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"harnessrouter\", \"b\": \"parallax-agents\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare harnessrouter parallax-agents`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json\n\n## Other comparisons with HarnessRouter or Parallax\n\n- [Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Aider vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Amp vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Claude Code vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cline vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cursor CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Devin vs 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