# Sculptor vs Traycer

> Traycer scores 57 (C) to Sculptor's 53.1 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-11-07

Traycer scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against Sculptor's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sculptor leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Sculptor: grade D, 53.1/100, rank #966 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sculptor.json
- Traycer: grade C, 57/100, rank #816 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/traycer.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

### Sculptor (D)

Good for: Developers who want parallel coding agents in isolated workspaces and are fine with a research preview.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 57 against 42
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30

Watch for: Labelled an experimental research preview that may change drastically

### Traycer (C)

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

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 65 against 43
- Schema & documentation, 65 against 45
- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 50

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


## Why the edge

### Payments & pricing: Sculptor +30

- Sculptor (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.

### Reliability: Traycer +22

- Sculptor (43): Local software. Desktop downloads for Mac (Apple Silicon), Linux and Linux ARM64 (20). checks.yml and a PR gate 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). sculptor-v tags up to v0.49.0, no changelog file (8). 0.x and labelled a research preview (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 8 + 0 = 43.
- 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.

### Schema & documentation: Traycer +20

- Sculptor (45): Harness reading. A README, specs and agent docs in the repository; no API reference (45).
- Traycer (65): Harness reading. Mintlify docs, a protocol package and a CLI (65).

### Agent ergonomics: Traycer +15

- Sculptor (50): Harness reading. Workspaces as isolated copies, review and merge back, and built-in skills (50).
- Traycer (65): Harness reading. Model switching within an agent, agent-to-agent loops, a CLI and cross-device sync (65).

### Security & auth: Sculptor +15

- Sculptor (57): Harness reading. Product analytics, error reporting and session recording default to off in the user config, and the app asks for a telemetry level and privacy consent at first run; PostHog runs on the front end only for now (25 of 30). Each workspace is an isolated copy of the code (14 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). SECURITY.md (8). 25 + 14 + 5 + 5 + 8 = 57.
- 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.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Sculptor | Traycer | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 65 | Traycer +22 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 45 | 65 | Traycer +20 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 65 | Traycer +15 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 42 | Sculptor +15 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Sculptor +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) | 57 | 60 | Traycer +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **53.1 · D** | **57 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

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

## Verdicts

**Sculptor.** Imbue's open-source app for parallel coding agents in isolated workspaces, with telemetry off until you choose otherwise. It's an experimental research preview that warns of bugs and drastic changes, Mac and Linux only, with no changelog.

**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

### Sculptor

1. Download from the README's links, connect a repository and create a workspace before prompting
2. Review the diff before merging a workspace back to main

### 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, Sculptor or Traycer?

Traycer scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against Sculptor's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sculptor leads on security & auth and payments & pricing.

### Are Sculptor and Traycer open source?

Yes. Sculptor is open source (MIT). Traycer is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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