# Orca vs Traycer (slim)

> Orca and Traycer score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 57.4 and 57 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Orca and Traycer score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.4 (C) and 57 (C). Traycer leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Orca: C 57.4, rank #795 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orca.min.md
- Traycer: C 57, rank #816 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.min.md
- Orca, good for Developers who want an orchestrator agent to split work across parallel coding agents, on desktop or mobile. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30.
- Traycer, good for Teams who want several coding agents working together with shared context and boards. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 58; Transparency & trust, 60 against 54.

| Category | Orca | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Orca | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Lovecast Inc. | Traycer AI |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Orca +10: Orca 40 (Scored on the cloud option. No protocol (0). The cloud price wasn't found on the pages read (0). The desktop app is free and MIT with no card (20). The local app needs no sign-up that we found (20). 0 + 0 + 20 + 20 = 40.); Traycer 30 (Scored on the paid option, Traycer's own inference subscription, whose price wasn't read (0 of 20). No protocol (0). Bring-your-own-agent use is free (20). Accounts for sync and teams weren't checked, half (10). 0 + 0 + 20 + 10 = 30.)
- Reliability, Traycer +7: Orca 58 (Local software. Desktop and mobile builds and a Homebrew cask (20). Unit, end-to-end and platform test workflows; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Tags to v1.4.251, no changelog file (8). Version 1.4 (15). 20 + 15 + 0 + 8 + 15 = 58.); Traycer 65 (Local software. Builds for macOS, Linux and Windows, and package-manager publishing workflows (20). test.yml, CodeQL, OpenSSF Scorecard and secret scanning run on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Host 1.5.3 (15). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 15 = 65.)
- Transparency & trust, Traycer +6: Orca 54 (MIT (30). Privacy and telemetry docs on the site (not read) (18 of 30). No deprecation policy (5). Disclosed with an opt-out (15 of 20). 30 + 18 + 5 + 15 = 68.); Traycer 60 (MIT (30). README privacy section and a linked privacy policy (not read) (18 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). Analytics described as 'may be enabled', with no opt-out given in the README (8 of 20). 30 + 18 + 10 + 8 = 66.)
- Agent ergonomics, Orca +5: Orca 70 (Harness reading. An orchestrator agent that splits work across workers in their own workspaces, chat or raw CLI, a browser and a CLI in one app (70).); Traycer 65 (Harness reading. Model switching within an agent, agent-to-agent loops, a CLI and cross-device sync (65).)