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CodeHerder vs Orchestratia
A multi-agent orchestration dashboard for coordinating Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex across servers you already run.
- 8 August 2026
- Last checked
- 20
- Capabilities scored, side by side
Verified against the vendor's own published materials.
What Orchestratia actually ships
- Live terminal streaming with a full in-browser PTY, not just logs
- An 8-column kanban board with plan-mode approval gates
- Typed task dependencies with automatic cascading and unblocking
- Capability-matched auto-assignment and a contract-based agent handoff model
- A daemon that runs in SSH-tunnel mode on your own servers, or a lighter Claude Code hooks mode
Where it's strong
- The closest direct match to CodeHerder's own pitch: one dashboard, several harnesses, your own servers
- Its contract-based handoffs, defining what output one agent must produce for the next, are interesting prior art
How CodeHerder differs
- CodeHerder meters work itself: tasks, stages, and the model or cost attributed to each. Orchestratia's pricing meters infrastructure: servers, projects, sessions, seats, and log-retention days
- CodeHerder pairs the same multi-harness, multi-server model with per-task cost attribution, hard dollar caps, and a git-host merge stage
Orchestratia's meter is infrastructure. CodeHerder's meter is work.
Not published on Orchestratia's own site
Absence of evidence, not evidence of absence: these may exist and simply not be marketed. Verified as of 2026-08-08.
- Git-worktree or container isolation per task
- A git-host PR or merge stage
- Cost or token attribution
- Hard dollar budget caps
- Per-stage model or harness selection
- Verification gates beyond plan approval
- Self-hosting the control plane itself (the agent daemon self-hosts; the dashboard doesn't)
Capability snapshot
CodeHerder vs Orchestratia, capability by capability
Every row traces to the same source as the full matrix, where the full legend lives. In short: "not published" means no public evidence was found, not that the feature is absent. Verified as of 2026-08-08.
| Capability | CodeHerder | Orchestratia |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrent agents | Published | Published |
| Multi-vendor harnesses | Published | Published |
| Customer-owned machines | Published | Published |
| Multi-machine routing | Published | Published |
| Automatic work assignment | Published | Published |
| Capability-based routing | Published | Published |
| Atomic claiming | Published | Unverified |
| Dependencies | Published | Published |
| Custom workflows | Published | Partial (approval rules, not a stage schema) |
| Server-enforced gates | Published | Published |
| Agent handoffs | Published | Published (contracts) |
| Persistent shared memory | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Live terminal / view | Published | Published |
| Human takeover / steer | Published | Published |
| Cost per task | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Cost per stage/model | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Hard $ cap | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Schedules | Published | Unverified |
| Webhooks / API / CLI | Published | Published |
| Self-host full platform | Published (Enterprise) | Partial (Enterprise/custom) |
Sources
Verified against Orchestratia's own site as of 2026-08-08.
- Orchestratia's homepage
- Orchestratia's features page
- Orchestratia's pricing page
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