orca vs ruflo
The two are close in size: 99.0k stars for orca, 77.5k for ruflo. Over the days we have tracked them orca moved +273.2% and ruflo +18.1%, so orca is growing faster right now.
ruflo leads on noise control. orca 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
Runs any CLI coding agent side-by-side in isolated git worktrees (including remote SSH worktrees) with a desktop app and mobile companion for steering and comparison.
- Stars
- 99.0k
- Tracked growth
- +273.2%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 13m ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Use your agent subscriptions / API keys
A production-ready agent meta-harness that orchestrates self-learning multi-agent swarms with zero-trust federation, a plugin marketplace, and self-hostable local-model support.
- Stars
- 77.5k
- Tracked growth
- +18.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 14m ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API key for cloud models; self-hostable option
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 | orca | ruflo |
|---|---|---|
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 analysis |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Manual review & basic filters | ●●●●● Severity gating |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Custom prompts & scripts | ●●●●● Plugins & configs |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Can run fully local | ●●●●● Fully local possible |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Any agent / BYO key | ●●●●● Bring-your-own / local |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-click install | ●●●●● One-command init |
Which one to pick
Pick orca if…
Flexible agent support — run your preferred CLI agents locally or remotely, fan prompts across parallel worktrees, and review/merge results from a single desktop + mobile UI.
Pick ruflo if…
Multi-model & self-hostable — pick Ruflo when you need a production-grade, extensible agent meta-harness with federated agents, local LLM support, and many built-in plugins and safety guardrails.
- Noise control: Severity gating (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
stablyai/orca
Hacker News: Orca – Live Programming Environment drew 290 points and 58 comments.
ruvnet/ruflo
Hacker News: Is any one using ruflo? drew 1 points and 1 comments.
Questions people ask
Is orca better than ruflo?
ruflo leads on noise control. orca does not take any axis by a clear margin. orca is worth picking when flexible agent support — run your preferred CLI agents locally or remotely, fan prompts across parallel worktrees, and review/merge results from a single desktop + mobile UI.
Which of orca and ruflo keeps my code private?
orca: Can run fully local (5/5). ruflo: Fully local possible (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
orca: Use your agent subscriptions / API keys. ruflo: Your API key for cloud models; self-hostable option.
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