Harden vs Loqua: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

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

Harden

Free

Local security layer for AI coding agents that inspects every tool call before it runs and can block, rewrite, or pause the action.

Pre-Execution Tool Call Checking: Every command, file edit, tool call, and outbound request is evaluated before it is allowed to run, not audited afterwards.
Intent-Aware Decisions: The check compares the proposed action against the task the developer actually requested plus session context, rather than matching a static rule list.
On-Device Model: A post-trained 8B-parameter model runs locally and is reported to beat frontier models on agent-security benchmarks while remaining fast enough to sit inline.
Graduated Responses: Actions can be allowed, blocked, redacted, paused for a human answer, or simply logged, and a blocked action does not stop the agent's other work.
Secret and Exfiltration Protection: Catches credential leaks, data exfiltration attempts, and destructive infrastructure operations before they execute.
Local Review Dashboard: Every decision is logged and reviewable through a dashboard that runs on the developer's own machine.
Broad Agent Compatibility: Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Kiro, and Antigravity.
Privacy by Design: Repository contents and tool output stay on the local machine because inference happens there.

Guarding Autonomous Coding Sessions: Let a coding agent run with fewer manual approvals while a local check still catches destructive commands.
Preventing Secret Leakage: Stop an agent from pasting API keys or credentials into an outbound request or a committed file.
Blocking Prompt-Injection Damage: Catch actions an agent was steered into by malicious content in a repository, issue, or web page it read.
Protecting Production Infrastructure: Intercept destructive infrastructure operations before they reach cloud resources or databases.
Agent Behaviour Auditing: Review a logged trail of what an agent tried to do and which actions were blocked or redacted.
Team Policy Enforcement: Apply consistent guardrails across developers using different coding agents on the same codebase.

FlowMind Technology Inc.

Freemium

Desktop voice typing that turns speech into clean, structured text in any app, plus screenshot questions and voice editing.

Global Shortcut Dictation: One shortcut invokes Loqua in any app and drops text straight at the cursor, with no window switching or waiting.
Real-Time Cleanup: Filler words are removed, repetition is cut and phrasing is refined as you speak, so what lands on screen is ready to send.
Automatic Structure: Loqua hears the structure in your speech and builds lists, headings and hierarchy on its own instead of making you dictate formatting.
Mid-Sentence Translation: Speak one language and get natively phrased output in nearly 100 target languages, switching language mid-sentence.
Capture to Ask: Select a table, chart or any screen region, speak a question about it, and get an answer, analysis, translation or summary in place.
Ask & Edit: Highlight an existing draft, product description or note and revise it by voice rather than retyping.
Per-App Context Intelligence: Tone and formatting adapt to the app you are writing in, available on the Pro plan.
Privacy Defaults: Zero cloud data retention, on-device history storage, no training on user data, user-controlled dictation history, and GDPR compliance.

Clearing a Message Backlog: Dictate Slack, email and comment replies at speaking speed instead of typing them one by one.
Drafting Documents Hands-Free: Speak a structured draft into Notion, Google Docs or Word and get headings and lists built automatically.
Cross-Language Correspondence: Reply to a partner or customer in their language by speaking your own.
Understanding an Unfamiliar Screen: Capture a dense chart, table or error dialog and ask what it means without leaving the app.
Revising Copy by Voice: Highlight a product description or draft paragraph and speak the edit you want applied.
Coding Notes and Commit Messages: Dictate into a terminal, VS Code or IntelliJ where typing context-switches away from the code.