Craft Agents vs Cybara

Craft Agents and Cybara are both ai agent apps 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.

Craft Agents

Built by the craft.do team for their own internal agent work, Craft Agents connects to external services like Slack or Linear, imports skills from Claude Code, and runs local MCP servers as subprocesses — all without requiring CLI fluency from the people reviewing agent output. The document-based interface lets you run multiple agents in parallel and share sessions, which removes the 'only the dev knows what happened' problem. Where it strains: the GitHub issues tracker shows 311 open issues and 146 open pull requests, signaling a project moving fast with rough edges still exposed. Teams expecting enterprise-grade stability at scale will feel those gaps quickly.

Cybara

Cybara is a fully open-source, MIT-licensed agent runtime you run entirely on your own hardware, with no required account, no telemetry, and no cloud dependency. The vendor describes 50+ model providers, 80+ built-in tools, and 25+ messaging channels available out of the box — a surface area that takes serious effort to configure correctly before it pays off. The operator controls are the genuine differentiator: per-session tool allowlists, filesystem checkpoints, spend caps, and approval gates mean agents don't act without your sign-off. The breadth is also the trap — teams starting with a single use case will spend time disabling or routing around features that don't apply to them. Where it earns its complexity is multi-channel deployments or on-chain automation where the alternative is building that policy layer from scratch.

Attribute	Craft Agents	Cybara
Pricing	Free	Free
Free trial	No	No
Open source	Yes	Yes
Has API	No	No
Self-hosted option	Yes	Yes
Platforms	Desktop	macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, iOS, Android
Pros	Document-centric session sharing, so the agent's context and output are readable by non-technical stakeholders without anyone translating terminal state into prose. MCP server subprocess management built in, which means you skip the manual local-server-startup ritual that breaks agent demos the moment someone else tries to run the same workflow. API integration via pasted specs or URLs, so connecting an agent to a custom internal service doesn't require writing a connector from scratch or waiting on a native integration. Claude Code skill import, which means agent capabilities your team already defined elsewhere carry over without being rebuilt inside a new system. Parallel agent multitasking in a single workspace, so a team running several concurrent agent tasks isn't forced to context-switch between separate sessions or terminals.	100% self-hosted with no required account or telemetry, so data never leaves your infrastructure — which means compliance environments that block third-party agent runtimes stay viable. Per-session and persistent tool allowlists paired with approval gates, so agents cannot execute filesystem writes or external calls you haven't explicitly signed off on — teams that have been burned by runaway automation don't have to build that guardrail layer themselves. Multi-key credential pools with rate-limit rotation, spend caps, and circuit breakers, so a single provider hitting its limit doesn't stall a production workflow — the router falls back automatically rather than failing silently. MCP support in both directions — Cybara consumes external MCP servers as tools and exposes its own tools to other MCP clients — which means you're not locked into a proprietary integration model when your stack changes. Agents codify verified multi-step procedures as skills that reload on every future session, so repetitive multi-step tasks stop requiring re-prompting and the agent's effective capability grows with use.
Cons	The public repository carries 311 open issues and 146 open pull requests — at the scale of a production deployment handling critical workflows, that backlog means bugs you hit may sit unresolved while your team decides whether to patch upstream or work around them. No API surface is exposed by the tool itself, so teams that want to trigger agents or read results from an external orchestration system have no stable interface to call — they are working against source code, not a contract, which breaks when the internals change. A team that needs commercial support, audit logging, or guaranteed uptime SLAs will find none of those here; when production pressure mounts, the next step is a hosted agent platform with managed infrastructure and a support tier — at which point the migration cost is the sunk cost of everything built on Craft Agents.	The configuration surface is wide by design, and a team standing up a first deployment — model providers, credential pools, tool allowlists, channel policies, wallet caps — faces a setup overhead that a narrow single-use-case prototype doesn't justify. Teams that need something running in an afternoon switch to a managed hosted platform and accept the data-residency trade-off. There is no hosted or cloud fallback: if your infrastructure goes down, your agents go down. Teams running uptime-sensitive customer-facing agents who don't want to own the SRE burden for the runtime itself will find this architecture unsustainable and move to a vendor-managed solution. The on-chain wallet features (ETH, BTC, SOL) and desktop computer-use automation require careful policy configuration before they are safe to run in a shared environment — the docs describe policy caps and SSRF protection, but misconfigured allowlists on a multi-user deployment expose real execution risk that a managed platform would gate behind their own controls.

Bottom line

Craft Agents and Cybara 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 Craft Agents and Cybara?

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

Is Craft Agents better than Cybara?

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.