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

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

Ruflo

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.

Free

An open-source Mac app that gives your coding agent a home: a real browser it drives, persistent chats, git worktrees and your iPhone in the loop.

Session Sidebar: One chat per task in a single rail, each keeping its own context, resuming mid-thought and showing whether it is still running or finished.
Per-task Git Worktrees: Every chat runs on its own worktree, so several agent tasks can proceed in parallel without stepping on one another's branches.
Driven Real Browser: The agent operates an actual browser using your own logged-in sessions, so it can reproduce bugs and walk redirect chains on real authenticated pages.
iOS Simulator Integration: An iPhone simulator sits in the window, letting the agent build and inspect mobile UI without leaving the app.
Phone Pairing: Pair an iPhone to follow and steer a run away from your desk, with the relay end-to-end encrypted.
Local-only Architecture: No Superagent account, server or telemetry — nothing leaves your Mac and there is no second subscription to buy.
Open Source under MIT: The Mac app, iPhone app and relay are all published on GitHub under the MIT license and the build is notarized by Apple.
Bring Your Own Agent: Works with Claude Code today on the subscription you already have, with Codex and Antigravity announced as coming.

Parallel Feature Work: Run several coding tasks at once, each isolated on its own git worktree, and check back on whichever finishes first.
Debugging Authenticated Flows: Let the agent open the real browser on your logged-in session to reproduce a login redirect loop or a flaky auth test.
Mobile UI Iteration: Build and visually inspect an iOS interface through the embedded simulator while the agent edits the code.
Long-running Refactors: Kick off a migration such as moving a repo to pnpm, close the laptop, and follow progress from a paired iPhone.
Privacy-sensitive Codebases: Use a coding agent on proprietary code with no account, server or telemetry involved.
Reviewing Agent Work: Watch step counts, diffs and per-file changes in a desk-style UI rather than scrolling terminal output.