Bohay vs Orbit

Bohay and Orbit are both cli coding agents tracked by AIDiveForge. Below is a side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, platforms, and ownership — sourced from each tool's live website and verified before publishing.

Bohay

The tool gives you a single interface to watch every agent's real status, not what the CLI reports but whether the process is actually doing work. File leases prevent overlapping edits before they're even assigned; isolated git worktrees keep agents from colliding on the same checkout; a test gate must pass before a task merges. Sessions survive terminal restarts, and each agent reloads its own chat history without you repasting flags. The orchestration board tracks dependencies so tasks wait for upstream work to clear the quality gate before they start.

Orbit

Orbit structures agent execution around a single concept: one task, one orbit, bounded by real checks — tests, lint, type validation — and recorded in inspectable JSON artifacts before anything advances. The vendor describes it as agent-neutral: Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any JSON-speaking CLI slots in behind the same contract, so teams can swap agents and compare output artifacts instead of gut feelings. The architecture is intentionally small, which means the harness is easy to verify and replay, but it also means Orbit does not ship workflow UI, cloud hosting, or a managed backlog service. Teams with complex multi-agent pipelines or a need for a hosted dashboard will be assembling those pieces themselves. Where it shines is the messy middle: failing tests handed to an agent, with proof required before the task closes.

Attribute	Bohay	Orbit
Pricing	Free	Free
Free trial	No	No
Open source	Yes	Yes
Has API	No	No
Self-hosted option	Yes	Yes
Platforms	Terminal, macOS (notch panel)	Python; Linux, macOS, Windows (via WSL or native Python)
Pros	File lease system prevents overlapping edits from being assigned in the first place, so two agents cannot be handed the same path — without this, the collision only surfaces after both agents have already written conflicting changes. Sessions persist across terminal restarts and each agent reloads its own chat history automatically, so a dropped connection or accidental close does not mean repasting context flags and reconstructing state by hand. Isolated git worktrees per task mean agents work on separate copies of the repo, so a half-finished feature branch cannot break another agent's passing tests mid-run. The quality gate requires your test command to pass before a task counts as done and before its branch merges, so broken code does not land in the shared checkout without you catching it. macOS notch integration surfaces every agent's live status and blocked requests in a native panel, so you can approve an agent without context-switching away from whatever you were doing.	Validation gates block task completion until tests, lint, and type checks pass — so an agent cannot mark work done without machine-verifiable proof, eliminating the silent failure mode where agents self-report success on broken code. Agent-neutral JSON contract means swapping from one coding agent to another requires no structural changes to the harness, so teams evaluating multiple agents get comparable artifact sets instead of incomparable anecdotes. Dependency-aware backlog selection keeps each orbit scoped to one task at a time, which means multi-step projects advance in verified increments rather than accumulating unvalidated drift across parallel agent threads. Structured artifact output — agent-result.json, evaluation.json, review.json, progress.md — gives reviewers an inspectable record of every decision and validation outcome, so audits and post-mortems have a durable evidence trail instead of reconstructed logs. MIT-licensed and self-hosted, so the entire execution environment stays on infrastructure the team controls — no vendor dependency on a cloud service that changes pricing or availability.
Cons	No API is available, so any team that needs to query agent status from an external dashboard, trigger tasks from a CI pipeline, or hook bohay into an existing internal tool hits a hard wall — the only integration surface is the terminal interface itself, and teams with that requirement switch to an orchestration layer that exposes a programmatic interface. The tool is terminal-first and currently targets Mac for the notch feature; teams on Windows are directed to an alternate install path with no equivalent native monitoring surface, and the vendor page offers precious little detail on Windows parity. Orchestration depends on a test command as the quality gate — teams without a reliable automated test suite get no meaningful gate, meaning the merge protection the orchestrator promises is only as solid as the tests backing it.	Orbit ships no hosted control plane, no web UI, and no managed backlog service — teams that need non-engineers to review agent progress or manage task queues through a dashboard face a full custom build before Orbit is usable at that level. The harness requires every coding agent to speak JSON from the CLI; agents or tools that expose only browser-based or proprietary interfaces cannot be connected without writing and maintaining a custom adapter, which adds an ongoing maintenance surface. At the scale where a team needs parallel agent execution across multiple repositories with centralized visibility, Orbit's intentionally small scope becomes a structural ceiling — teams at that point are evaluating purpose-built CI orchestration platforms or managed agent infrastructure, not a local harness.

Bottom line

Bohay and Orbit are closely matched on pricing model, openness, and API availability — pick by feature set and platform support in the table above.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Bohay and Orbit?

Bohay is Free and open source, while Orbit is Free and open source. Compare pricing, free trial, API, platforms, and pros/cons in the table above on AIDiveForge.

Is Bohay better than Orbit?

It depends on your workflow. Use the side-by-side attributes (pricing, open source, API, self-hosted, platforms) to decide. AIDiveForge does not rank a universal winner — we publish verified facts so you can choose.

Bohay vs Orbit: which should I pick?

Pick Bohay if its pricing model, openness, or platform fit matches your constraints; pick Orbit otherwise. Check free-trial availability on each listing if you want to test before committing.

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