twinny vs ORG2
The two are close in size: 3.6k stars for twinny, 2.6k for ORG2.
twinny leads on customization. ORG2 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
A privacy-first VS Code assistant that runs on models you control (local, peer devices, or a team gateway) with no telemetry or sign-in.
- Stars
- 3.6k
- Tracked growth
- not tracked long enough
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free; team gateway paid after 5 devs
Provides persistent, replayable agent trajectories, cross-session memory, and AI-blame for team-level review and accountability that typical IDE agents do not offer.
- Stars
- 2.6k
- Tracked growth
- +127.4%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Cost to run
- Uses your API key (provider billing applies)
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 | twinny | ORG2 |
|---|---|---|
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. | ●●●●● Rerank & review | ●●●●● Reviewable outputs |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Templates & plugins | ●●●●● Configurable agents |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Fully local | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● BYO models | ●●●●● Bring your key |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Quickstart command | ●●●●● One-click install |
Which one to pick
Pick twinny if…
Privacy-first — use Twinny when you want a full-featured VS Code AI assistant that runs on your own models and network with team admin controls and local-only operation.
- Customization: Templates & plugins (5/5 against 3/5)
Pick ORG2 if…
Local-first — run a desktop agent IDE with replayable sessions, AI-blame, and team review to audit and collaborate on agent work.
What people want from each one
twinnydotdev/twinny
Questions people ask
Is twinny better than ORG2?
twinny leads on customization. ORG2 does not take any axis by a clear margin. twinny is worth picking when privacy-first — use Twinny when you want a full-featured VS Code AI assistant that runs on your own models and network with team admin controls and local-only operation.
Which of twinny and ORG2 keeps my code private?
twinny: Fully local (5/5). ORG2: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
twinny: Free; team gateway paid after 5 devs. ORG2: Uses your API key (provider billing applies).
Full profiles: twinnydotdev/twinny and yorgai/ORG2. Everything else in IDE & editor agents.