Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
HarnessRouter Community Edition: the self-hosted, Apache-2.0 edition of the unified interface for agent harnesses. Run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and more through one API, with sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and failure handling. Implements the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard. Your keys, your infrastructure.
Best matched with other agent tools.
An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.
Best matched with other agent tools.
Deer Flow has the larger GitHub footprint with 77.6K stars.
Deer Flow is currently growing faster at +10.7K stars this week.
Deer Flow has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 92/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | Harnessrouter | Deer Flow |
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| Evidence status | Basic listing· 11h ago | Basic listing· 11h ago |
| GitHub stars | 555 | 77.6K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +10.7K |
| Health score | Healthy67/100 |
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| Contributors | 8 | 324 |
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| Commits per week | 15.5 | 60.8 |
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| Open issues | 2 | 973 |
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| Language | Python | Python |
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| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
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| Last commit | 14d ago | 1mo ago |
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| Last release | v0.9.1 | v2.0.0 |
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