The best coding agent orchestrators in 2026: 10 apps compared by price and platform

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on November 5, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick.

Coding agent orchestrators compared

An orchestrator runs several coding agents at once and shows you what each is doing. The agents still come from the labs, and you still pay the labs for them. The apps differ in which agents they run, where those agents can run, and how much they do beyond that.

App	Best for	Price, checked November 5, 2026	Runs on	Agents
Orca	The most agents, free and open source	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	41 in its docs, and any command-line agent
Emdash	Issues from your trackers, free and open source	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	35 in its docs
T3 Code	A simple, free start	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity, Pi, Muse Code
Paseo	Agents on any machine, from your phone	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, Muse Code, and ACP agents
Herdr	Terminal agents on several machines, in one window	Free	Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux	Anything that runs in a terminal
Paradev, formerly Superset	Teams on Macs, with cloud workspaces	Free for one user; Pro $20 a user a month; Team $60; Ultra $200	Mac; Linux experimental	Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and any command-line agent
Nimbalyst	Visual editors and a task tracker beside your agents	Free; Wiki Teams $20 a user a month, free in beta	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex; OpenCode and Copilot in alpha
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent, across all your projects	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and other computers (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode
Claude Code Desktop	Only Claude	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max ($100), Ultra ($200), Team and Enterprise	Mac, Windows; Linux in beta	Claude Code
The ChatGPT desktop app	Only Codex	Included in every ChatGPT plan, from Free; Plus is $20 a month	Mac, Windows; Linux in preview	Codex

Prices are per month as each maker lists them, before tax. The independent apps run your agents on your own Claude, ChatGPT or other plans and API keys, which those companies bill for separately. Conductor isn’t in the table because it stopped taking new users on November 4.

Before you pick

Three questions narrow this list quickly:

• Which agents do you pay for? If it’s one lab, start with that lab’s own app. If it’s several, you want one of the independent apps.
• Where should the agents run? All of these run on the computer in front of you. If they need to keep going with your laptop shut, you need a machine that stays on, and a few of these apps make that easier than others.
• Who keeps track of the agents? In most of these apps you do, with status and notifications to help. Enjoy adds JOY, a superagent over your projects, and Orca, Paseo and Herdr have ways for agents to start and message each other.

Every agent you run at once draws on your plan’s limits, and every result still needs reviewing. More agents only help as far as you can keep up with them.

Orca

Best for: the widest choice of agents, free.

Orca, from Stably AI, is “the agent development environment”: “Run Claude Code, Codex, and any other coding agent in parallel, each in its own worktree.” Its homepage says it’s “Free and open source for macOS, Windows, and Linux,” under the MIT license, and its docs list 41 agents that come preconfigured. Its phone app for iOS and Android lets you “watch live agent status, check usage, switch accounts,” and its scheduled automations “run a prompt on a schedule.”

Price: free.

Watch for: Orca “pre-fills each supported CLI’s permission-bypass flag for new launches,” --dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude among them, so check the setting if you want agents to ask first. “Orca does not sell managed VPS hosting,” so an always-on server is a machine you run. Its agent-to-agent orchestration is “Experimental,” and you turn it on in settings.

Emdash

Best for: sending issues straight to agents, free.

Emdash calls itself an “open-source agentic development environment.” You “pass issues directly to agents” from Linear, Jira, GitHub, Notion and Asana, each task runs in its own Git worktree, and automations run a prompt on a cron schedule. Its docs say “Emdash supports 35 coding agent CLIs,” and it reaches other machines over SSH.

Price: free, under the Apache 2.0 license, on macOS, Windows and Linux. You “bring the CLI agents you already use.”

Watch for: schedules need a machine that’s on: “A stopped machine cannot execute a scheduled run.” Its homepage and README don’t mention a phone app. A new version, Emdash 2.0, is behind a waitlist, so expect it to change.

T3 Code

Best for: a free app that does one thing, running agents side by side.

T3 Code calls itself “the open-source control plane for coding agents.” Its FAQ says “Bring your own: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Google Antigravity, Pi, or Muse Code.” It installs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and has phone apps for iOS and Android.

Price: free, under the MIT license: “There’s no way to pay us to use T3 Code.” Its remote service, T3 Connect, is “free too, for now,” for up to three machines.

Watch for: its README says “We are very very early in this project. Expect bugs.”

Paseo

Best for: running agents on several machines and steering them from your phone.

Paseo’s pitch is “Run many coding agents at once, on any machine.” You can “run Paseo on a home lab, or a cloud machine,” with apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, and its hosted relay is end-to-end encrypted: “Paseo can’t read your traffic.” It has “custom implementations for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, and Muse Code,” and schedules start “a new agent for you on a cron cadence.”

Price: free, under the Apache 2.0 license. “You need agent providers installed with your own credentials.”

Watch for: Paseo Hub, its option for teams and for starting work from GitHub, Slack and Discord, has no price on its homepage.

Herdr

Best for: people who like their agents in terminals, across several machines.

Herdr started as a terminal app, and now has a separate app too. It “doesn’t wrap or replace” your agents; it “owns their terminals.” You see every pane marked working, blocked or idle, keep local and SSH machines in one window, and agents can “spawn panes, prompt each other, and wait until another agent is genuinely blocked.” Its docs list integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok and more, and its site says it works with “anything that runs in a terminal.”

Price: free. “The app, herdr-core and Herdr TUI are all open source,” under Apache 2.0.

Watch for: the app and the terminal version “don’t share agents, so what runs in one doesn’t show up in the other.” And “if the machine reboots or herdr-core stops, the programs stop too.” The app’s Mac build is for Apple silicon.

Paradev, formerly Superset

Best for: teams on Macs who want cloud workspaces.

“Run an Army of Coding Agents,” says Paradev, with each task in its own Git worktree: “Paradev works with any CLI-based coding agent, including Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenAI Codex, and more.” It says its source is “on GitHub under the MIT License.”

Price: the free plan is for one user, with local workspaces, the desktop app and its command line. Remote access, automations and the mobile app start at Pro: $20 a user a month, or $16 billed yearly. Team is $60, or $54 billed yearly, with cloud workspaces in beta. Ultra is $200, and Enterprise is priced on request.

Watch for: “The desktop app runs on macOS, with an experimental Linux AppImage; Windows is not yet available.”

Nimbalyst

Best for: people who want to see their agents’ work in visual editors, with a task tracker.

Nimbalyst is “the open-source visual workspace for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.” Beside sessions in Git worktrees, it has editors for Markdown, mockups, diagrams and spreadsheets, and a task tracker. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with an iOS app.

Price: free under the MIT license, with “No account and no credit card required.” Wiki Teams, a shared wiki, is $20 a user a month, or $200 a year, and “Free during Beta.”

Watch for: Claude Code and Codex are its main agents. Its features page lists “OpenCode and GitHub Copilot available as alpha providers.”

Enjoy

Best for: running every lab’s agent across all your projects, without stopping when one plan runs out.

Enjoy runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Mac, Windows and Linux, on the AI plans you already have. Each conversation runs its own agent, and an agent can work in a worktree. What it adds:

• Switch agents mid-conversation. When one lab’s agent is the wrong fit or out of usage, another picks up the same conversation.
• Keep going through limits. When an agent runs out of usage, Enjoy switches to another of your accounts that still has usage, or waits for the limit to reset, then continues.
• A superagent over everything. JOY keeps an eye on all your projects: ask it what needs you, catch up on what your agents did, or start work in any project.
• More than code. Projects don’t have to be Git repositories, and workflows can run on a schedule.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy isn’t open source, and it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends, where Orca, Emdash, T3 Code, Paseo and Herdr are free. Scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open. It runs six agents, where Orca lists 41. And it doesn’t stop two conversations from editing the same files: overlapping work needs a worktree, which you ask for.

Claude Code Desktop

Best for: people who only use Claude.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app. You can “work on multiple tasks in parallel” in separate sessions, and scheduled tasks run locally or in the cloud, where a task “runs even when your computer is off.”

Price: included in every paid plan: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max at $100, Ultra at $200, Team and Enterprise.

Watch for: it runs only Claude. “By default, Worktree is off and Claude works in the project folder itself,” and a local scheduled task “only fires while the app is open and your computer is awake.”

The ChatGPT desktop app, for Codex

Best for: people who only use OpenAI.

OpenAI’s desktop app is where Codex runs on your computer: “Run projects in parallel, work with files, use your computer, and keep long-running work moving from one desktop workspace.” It’s for macOS and Windows, with Linux “available in preview,” and scheduled tasks can run “in the project directory or an isolated worktree.”

Price: on every ChatGPT plan, from Free. Go is $8 a month, Plus $20, and Pro from $100.

Watch for: it runs only Codex. Free and Go get “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout,” and for project scheduled tasks, “keep the machine powered on and the ChatGPT desktop app running.”

When to stay with what you have

An orchestrator is worth it when you’re juggling work. If you run one agent at a time, its own app or terminal is enough, and adding a layer gives you one more thing to update.

If you already run two or three agents in terminals, with git worktree and a habit of reviewing, that’s free and it works. Move when you start losing track of which agent is waiting on you.

If you already have Conductor on a Mac and use only local workspaces, you don’t have to rush: “Local Conductor will continue working as normal for now,” until it winds down in early 2027. Our Conductor guide covers moving off it.

And if you’ve settled on any app here and it does what you need, stay. They’re all changing fast, and most of them cost nothing to try later.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, install and docs pages on November 5, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. The field is bigger than this list: OpenAlternative’s roundup also covers Jean, Synara, Omnigent and Amp, which we didn’t compare here. We left out frameworks for building your own agents, which answer a different question. This category changes weekly, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.