# Paseo vs Traycer (slim)

> 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: B 62.1, rank #575 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.min.md
- Traycer: C 57, rank #811 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.min.md
- Paseo, 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.
- Traycer, good for Teams who want several coding agents working together with shared context and boards. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 50.

| Category | Paseo | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Paseo | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mohamed Boudra | Traycer AI |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-11-07 | 2026-11-06 |

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).)