# Paseo vs Verdent

> Paseo scores 62.1 (B) to Verdent's 39.7 (E) 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 Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. 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
- Verdent: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1317 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json
- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md
- 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:
- Reliability, 50 against 43
- Schema & documentation, 65 against 55
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 35
- Security & auth, 58 against 33
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 61
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 55

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Open source

Watch for: Pre-1.0, at 0.15.3

### Verdent (E)

Good for: A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.

Watch for: No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot


## Why the edge

### Payments & pricing: Paseo +40

- 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.
- Verdent (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.

### Agent ergonomics: Paseo +35

- 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).
- Verdent (35): Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.

### Security & auth: Paseo +25

- 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.
- Verdent (33): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.

### Maintenance & community: Paseo +14

- Paseo (75): v0.15.3 and commits on 7 November 2026 (30). More than three releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current builds (15). CI on push (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75.
- Verdent (61): Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.

### Transparency & trust: Paseo +13

- 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.
- Verdent (55): Proprietary, under terms from Verdent AI, Inc. that are clear on use and ownership (15). The privacy policy and security page agree that data stays in the US and that input isn't trained on without consent, and the security page lists subprocessors. The privacy policy gives no retention periods, names MiniMax as a provider the security list leaves out, and deletion is by email request (14). The credit bonus carries a promise of 15 days' notice, but Free Mode was retired on the day v2.18.0 shipped and no deprecation policy was found (6). Subprocessors and their locations are listed, and the domains the app calls are named, with event logging undescribed (12). 15+14+6+12 = 47.

### Schema & documentation: Paseo +10

- Paseo (65): Harness reading. Public docs, a CLI and plugin examples in the repository (65).
- Verdent (55): Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as "certain tool executions" and "destructive operations" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Paseo | Verdent | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 43 | Paseo +7 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 55 | Paseo +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 35 | Paseo +35 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 33 | Paseo +25 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | Paseo +40 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 61 | Paseo +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 55 | Paseo +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **39.7 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Paseo | Verdent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Mohamed Boudra | Verdent AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-07 | 2026-10-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-26 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |

## 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.

**Verdent.** A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.

## 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

### Verdent

1. Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode
2. Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode
3. Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape
4. Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox
5. Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026

## Questions

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

Paseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Paseo and Verdent open source?

Paseo is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Verdent.


## For agents

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

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