Clockwork vs Ruflo: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Clockwork and Ruflo — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Clockwork

Vimox Shah

Freemium

macOS app that books coding agents like meetings — scheduled, sandboxed runs with dollar caps that file a readable report.

Calendar-style booking: Schedule an agent against a repository with a profile, budget and time, one-off or recurring
Real recurrence: RRULE or cron expanded in your own IANA time zone, with daylight-saving handling and missed-run policies
Sandboxed runs: Each job executes in a macOS Seatbelt profile around a fresh git worktree, or an ephemeral Docker container with no network by default
Credential deny-list: Files under .ssh, .aws and .gnupg plus shell history are unreadable from inside a run
Enforced budgets: A dollar cap, turn cap and wall-clock timeout applied by a supervisor outside the model
Approval gates: Risky actions pause and wait; an unanswered ask fails closed after about two minutes
Structured reports: Every run files a summary, branch and diffstat, cost, approval log and full-text searchable transcript
Agent library: Thirteen specialists including Dep Surgeon, Test Doctor, Bug Hunter, Code Reviewer and Security Auditor, plus custom agents
Multi-engine: Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode and Hermes Agent on the logins you already have, or your own provider keys

A developer schedules dependency patch bumps to run overnight and reviews a diff in the morning instead of a scrollback
A team runs a weekly repo health digest that reports stale branches, drift and advisories every Monday at 07:00
An engineer chains a scan, a fix, a test run and a pull request so each stage receives the previous stage's report
A maintainer caps an experimental agent at a fixed dollar amount so a runaway loop cannot exceed the budget
A CI failure fires a webhook that launches the CI Investigator agent to decide whether it is a flake or a real regression
A security-conscious team runs read-only audits on a machine with no cloud account, no telemetry and data kept in a local SQLite file

rUv (ruvnet)

Free

Open-source agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex adding swarms, self-learning memory, MCP tools and security guardrails.

Agent Swarms: Over 100 specialized agents self-organize into coordinated swarms to split up and run complex tasks.
Self-Learning Memory: Remembers across sessions and learns from successful trajectories using local vector retrieval and contrastive updates.
MCP Server: Run npx ruflo mcp start to expose Ruflo's tools to Codex or any MCP-enabled client.
Claude Code Plugins: Core tools, a visual console and runtime mods add routing and policy enforcement inside Claude Code.
Terminal UI Console: Shows Overview, Cost, Swarm, Events and Missions pages, and also runs standalone.
Federation: Lets agents on different machines communicate securely without leaking data.
Hook-Based Routing: Hooks automatically route tasks and coordinate agents in the background.

Large Refactors: Split a big codebase change across a swarm of specialist agents.
Persistent Project Context: Keep knowledge across Claude Code sessions with vector memory.
Multi-Client Setups: Connect Codex or other MCP clients to the same tool server.
Cost Monitoring: Track spend and agent activity from the console during long runs.
Multi-Machine Collaboration: Let agents on separate machines coordinate through federation.