# HarnessRouter vs Vibe-Trading (slim)

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D) 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 HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- HarnessRouter: D 53.2, rank #828 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.min.md
- Vibe-Trading: B 62.2, rank #502 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md
- HarnessRouter, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67; Transparency & trust, 72 against 47. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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 35; Security & auth, 70 against 58; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 82 against 72. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | HarnessRouter | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HarnessRouter | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) | HKUDS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| 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. | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 0 | 82 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 3.1k stars | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |