# Sculptor vs Traycer (slim)

> 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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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: D 53.1, rank #966 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.min.md
- Traycer: C 57, rank #816 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.min.md
- Sculptor, 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.
- Traycer, 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.

| Category | Sculptor | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 45 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Sculptor | Traycer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Imbue, Inc. | Traycer AI |

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.)