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Orca vs T3 Code

Orca rates 78 against T3 Code's 67 in this edition. The table lines up every dimension we record; the leading value in each numeric row is marked. Add a third or fourth entry.

Dimension	78of 100 OrcaStably AI	67of 100 T3 CodePing Labs (ping.gg / T3 Tools)
Rating
AgentsWisdom score	78	67
Confidence	medium	high
Rank in category	No. 1 of 7	No. 4 of 7
Pillars
Adoption & momentum	91	67
Experts (independent reviews)	75	64
Crowd (community sample)	63	70
Community posts sampled	9	22
Experts vs crowd	Crowd cooler by 12	Crowd warmer by 6
Adoption
GitHub stars	78k	24k
npm weekly downloads	n/e	20k
PyPI monthly downloads	n/e	n/e
VS Code installs	n/e	n/e
Reported users	n/e	n/e
Reported customer organisations	n/e	n/e
Releases, last 90 days	96	14
Benchmarks (shown, not scored)
Terminal-Bench 2.0	not listed	not listed
SWE-bench	not listed	not listed
Independent reviews	3	8
Trust & safety
Overall grade	B	B
Permission model	C	C
Data access scope	B	n/e
Data storage	A	A
Data retention & training	n/e	n/e
Incident history	B	A
Compliance	C	D
Transparency	A	A
Price
Price	Free	Free
Plans	Free (open source): Free Enterprise: Custom	Free (open source): Free
Product
Category	Orchestrators & meta-harnesses	Orchestrators & meta-harnesses
Maker	Stably AI	Ping Labs (ping.gg / T3 Tools)
Licence	MIT	MIT
Use it via	Desktop app, Mobile app, CLI	Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, CLI
Runs on	macos, windows, linux	macos, windows, linux, web
Models it drives	any terminal agent: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Grok, Amp, Goose, Hermes Agent and others	Claude (via Claude Code), GPT (via Codex), Cursor models (via Cursor CLI), Grok (via Grok Build), Gemini (via Antigravity), any provider supported by OpenCode
Key features	Parallel agents, each in its own git worktree; fan one prompt across several agents and compare Works with any CLI agent (30+ listed) Terminal splits with persistent scrollback; built-in editor and diff annotation sent back to the agent Embedded Chromium browser with 'design mode' element capture GitHub and Linear integration; SSH worktrees and remote Orca servers Orca CLI and orchestration skills so agents can drive Orca iOS and Android companion apps Claude/Codex account switching and usage tracking	Drives locally installed agent CLIs: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity Separate git worktree per agent thread Inline diff review and one-click commit, push and pull request Per-thread permission modes: Supervised, Auto-accept edits, Auto, Full access Remote control from iOS/Android/web via T3 Connect, LAN pairing or Tailscale Can run as a background service (`t3 service install`) Switch model/provider mid-thread
Verdicts
Praised for	Session/status sidebar for many concurrent agents across repos (Reddit r/ClaudeCode users) Worktree-per-agent model and diff review make comparing parallel attempts straightforward (Chancay, Margrop, HN users) Very active development; free and open source (HN, Reddit)	Free and open source; uses the subscriptions you already pay for (Thalhammer, Better Stack, HN comments) Remote/mobile control of agents running on your own machine (Thalhammer, Geniar, HN and Reddit users) Worktree per agent makes parallel agents easier (HN user, Better Stack)
Criticised for	Performance complaints: slow editor, lag in remote work, high CPU (HN, Reddit) Experimental chat UI and mobile input reported as buggy (Reddit) Launches agents with their permission-bypass flags by default Parallel agents multiply token spend (Margrop)	Early software with rough edges and bugs, acknowledged by the project itself (Geniar, AICodeKing, HN comments) Default permission mode for new threads is Full access (no approval prompts) Missing conveniences such as queuing multiple messages (Geniar)
Evidence
Evidence collected	26 Sept 2026	26 Sept 2026
Sources cited	3	4