# Paseo vs Traycer

> Paseo scores 62.1 (B) to Traycer's 57 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Paseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Traycer's 57 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Traycer leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.

- Paseo: grade B, 62.1/100, rank #575 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json
- Traycer: grade C, 57/100, rank #811 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/traycer.json
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- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Paseo (B)

Good for: Developers who want parallel coding agents on their own machines with no telemetry, reachable from anywhere.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65
- Security & auth, 58 against 42
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 60

Watch for: Pre-1.0, at 0.15.3

### Traycer (C)

Good for: Teams who want several coding agents working together with shared context and boards.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 65 against 50

Watch for: Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals; with it off, prompts may be logged


## Why the edge

### Payments & pricing: Paseo +30

- Paseo (60): Free self-hosted software with nothing to buy, so 0 for a protocol and 20 each for public pricing, a free tier and onboarding with no sign-up, 60.
- 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.

### Security & auth: Paseo +16

- Paseo (58): Harness reading. The README says no telemetry, tracking or forced log-ins (30 of 30). Worktree per agent, on your own machine (10 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). SECURITY.md (8). 30 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 8 = 58.
- Traycer (42): Harness reading. Code is processed in memory and not used for training, but Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, prompts may be logged with it off, and Sentry and PostHog 'may be enabled in release builds' (10 of 30). No approval model described in the README (8 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log found (5). SECURITY.md, CodeQL, Scorecard and secret scanning (14 of 20). 10 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 14 = 42.

### Reliability: Traycer +15

- Paseo (50): Local software. Desktop builds, an Android APK, a Docker image and a Nix package (20). ci.yml 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). Version 0.15.3 (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 50.
- 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: Paseo +8

- Paseo (68): Apache 2.0 for everything but third-party components (30). No telemetry and agents run on your machine (22 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). States no telemetry (20). 30 + 22 + 10 + 20 = 82.
- 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: Paseo +5

- Paseo (70): Harness reading. A self-hosted daemon that agents can use to create worktrees, launch other agents and talk to them, scriptable from the CLI (70).
- Traycer (65): Harness reading. Model switching within an agent, agent-to-agent loops, a CLI and cross-device sync (65).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Paseo | Traycer | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 65 | Traycer +15 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 65 | Paseo +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 42 | Paseo +16 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Paseo +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 75 | even |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 60 | Paseo +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **57 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Paseo | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Mohamed Boudra | Traycer AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-07 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |

## Verdicts

**Paseo.** A self-hosted, open-source workspace for running many coding agents on your own machines, scriptable from the CLI and reachable from phone, web or desktop, with no telemetry or forced log-in. It's pre-1.0 and run largely by one maintainer.

**Traycer.** An open-source app for running several coding agents together with shared context, agent-to-agent messaging and team boards, on every desktop OS. Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, and the README says Sentry and PostHog may be on in release builds.

## Before you call either

### Paseo

1. Run the daemon on the machine that has your tools and credentials, and connect from the clients
2. Script runs from the CLI for repeatable agent jobs

### Traycer

1. Turn on Privacy Mode if you're an individual user and don't want prompts logged
2. CLI agents you configure send requests straight to their provider; Traycer's own inference goes through Traycer

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Paseo or Traycer?

Paseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Traycer's 57 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Traycer leads on reliability.

### Are Paseo and Traycer open source?

Yes. Paseo is open source (Apache-2.0). Traycer is open source (MIT).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-traycer.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-traycer.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "paseo", "b": "traycer"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare paseo traycer`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/traycer.json

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