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Head to head · Multi-agent orchestration · October 2026 research run

OpenMausBot vs Vibe-Trading

OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Vibe-Trading's 62.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vibe-Trading leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

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OpenMausBotSupamaus Software Private Limited · Agent harness B65.4/100#368 of 1238 Vibe-TradingHKUDS · Agent harness B62.8/100#490 of 1238

Which one, for what

OpenMausBot B

Best for A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 90 against 72
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 67
  • Transparency & trust, 59 against 53

Watch for

New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card

Vibe-Trading B

Best 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

  • Security & auth, 70 against 59
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 50
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 74

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it

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

CategoryWeight this runOpenMausBotVibe-TradingEdge
Reliability16%206063Vibe-Trading +3
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29072OpenMausBot +18
Agent ergonomics13%16.27767OpenMausBot +10
Security & auth14%17.55970Vibe-Trading +11
Payments & pricing10%12.55060Vibe-Trading +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87482Vibe-Trading +8
Transparency & trust7%8.85953OpenMausBot +6
Negative events≤15-2-4
TotalB 65.4/100B 62.8/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenMausBotVibe-Trading
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorSupamaus Software Private LimitedHKUDS
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transportsstdiostdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0MIT
Tools exposed2082
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-302026-10-21
Terms last updated2026-10-10no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-18no document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk37k stars

Verdicts

OpenMausBot

A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off.

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

OpenMausBot

  1. Ask the owner for a pairing code from Settings > Phone, exchange it at POST /api/auth/pair, and set OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN with an explicit OMB_PORT
  2. Pass a send_id with every send_bot_message and send_channel_message, so a retry returns the first receipt
  3. Use wait_for_conversation instead of polling, and on needs-user stop and tell the owner a card is waiting
  4. Check a bot's access level with the owner before sending work. New bots run at Full access unless defaults were changed
  5. Ask the owner to switch off Settings > General > Usage analytics if nothing beyond model calls should leave the machine

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, OpenMausBot or Vibe-Trading?

OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Vibe-Trading's 62.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vibe-Trading leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

Are OpenMausBot and Vibe-Trading open source?

Yes. OpenMausBot is open source (Apache-2.0). Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).

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