oh-my-openagent vs open-swe
oh-my-openagent is much bigger: 69.0k stars against 10.7k. Over the days we have tracked them oh-my-openagent moved +4.7% and open-swe +7.5%, so open-swe is growing faster right now.
oh-my-openagent leads on setup ease. open-swe 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
Orchestrates multiple agent harnesses and parallel "discipline" agents (Team Mode) to run whole-repo autonomous workflows rather than a single-model single-agent approach.
- Stars
- 69.0k
- Tracked growth
- +4.7%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Cost to run
- Requires your provider subscriptions / API keys
Provides pluggable isolated cloud sandboxes and subagent orchestration out of the box for safe, parallelized repo edits and automatic PR creation.
- Stars
- 10.7k
- Tracked growth
- +7.5%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 2h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API key + cloud sandbox costs
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 | oh-my-openagent | open-swe |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis | ●●●●● Whole-repo access |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Basic filters | ●●●●● Basic filters & middleware |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Config + plugins | ●●●●● Highly customizable |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Cloud APIs (your key) | ●●●●● Cloud APIs (your key) |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Multi-provider / BYOK | ●●●●● Bring-your-own-key |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command install | ●●●●● Multi-service setup |
Which one to pick
Pick oh-my-openagent if…
Multi-provider orchestration — choose this when you want an open, extensible agent harness that coordinates many models/agents for complex, whole-repo automation and installs quickly via a one-line command.
- Setup ease: One-command install (5/5 against 2/5)
Pick open-swe if…
Customizable architecture — swap sandboxes, models, tools, and middleware to build an internal coding agent that runs each task in an isolated cloud sandbox and opens PRs automatically.
What people want from each one
code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent
Hacker News: Agent-Model Matching Guide drew 2 points and 0 comments.
langchain-ai/open-swe
Hacker News: An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent drew 5 points and 0 comments.
Questions people ask
Is oh-my-openagent better than open-swe?
oh-my-openagent leads on setup ease. open-swe does not take any axis by a clear margin. oh-my-openagent is worth picking when multi-provider orchestration — choose this when you want an open, extensible agent harness that coordinates many models/agents for complex, whole-repo automation and installs quickly via a one-line command.
Which of oh-my-openagent and open-swe keeps my code private?
oh-my-openagent: Cloud APIs (your key) (3/5). open-swe: Cloud APIs (your key) (3/5).
What does each one cost to run?
oh-my-openagent: Requires your provider subscriptions / API keys. open-swe: Your API key + cloud sandbox costs.
Full profiles: code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent and langchain-ai/open-swe. Everything else in Autonomous SWE agents.