Duel-Agents vs my-free-code
The two are close in size: 748 stars for Duel-Agents, 641 for my-free-code. Over the days we have tracked them Duel-Agents moved -22.8% and my-free-code +38.1%, so my-free-code is growing faster right now.
my-free-code leads on noise control and privacy and model freedom. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
An IDE-native routing layer that runs prompts across multiple models and picks the cheapest answer that still wins.
- Stars
- 748
- Tracked growth
- -22.8%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 86d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription)
Multi-provider gateway that routes Claude Code and other coding agents across a broad provider catalog with ordered fallbacks and local-model runtimes.
- Stars
- 641
- Tracked growth
- +38.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API keys for upstream providers; local models run locally (no provider fees).
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | Duel-Agents | my-free-code |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff/file only | ●●●●● Diff only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No noise controls | ●●●●● Basic filters |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Env/config options | ●●●●● Env/config options |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Third-party cloud | ●●●●● Runs fully local |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Single provider | ●●●●● Bring-your-own provider |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + install | ●●●●● Env + API key |
Which one to pick
Pick Duel-Agents if…
Cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Pick my-free-code if…
Privacy-first — run a self-hosted gateway that supports many upstream providers plus local runtimes (Ollama/llama.cpp) for Claude Code and other coding agents.
- Noise control: Basic filters (3/5 against 1/5)
- Privacy: Runs fully local (5/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own provider (5/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
2aronS/Duel-Agents
Questions people ask
Is Duel-Agents better than my-free-code?
my-free-code leads on noise control and privacy and model freedom. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin. Duel-Agents is worth picking when cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Which of Duel-Agents and my-free-code keeps my code private?
Duel-Agents: Third-party cloud (1/5). my-free-code: Runs fully local (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
Duel-Agents: Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription). my-free-code: Your API keys for upstream providers; local models run locally (no provider fees)..
Full profiles: 2aronS/Duel-Agents and hkqr/my-free-code. Everything else in Gateways & routing.