PentAGI vs Strix
PentAGI (VXControl) and Strix (Strix) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Strix has 2.6x the GitHub stars of PentAGI (66.8K against 25.3K). PentAGI shipped 1 stable releases in the past 90 days. Strix shipped 14 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | PentAGI | Strix |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 30 | 24 |
| Overall rank | #133 | #156 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 8,244 |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 9.7% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 57.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 25.3K | 66.8K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 1 |
| Latest stable release | 2.2.0 · yesterday | 1.7.0 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 1 | 14 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free + $29/mo |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| First released | January 2025 | August 2025 |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
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PentAGI
A self-hosted multi-agent system that carries out penetration testing tasks in a sandboxed environment, written in Go and React and working with several model providers.
Pricing: Free and open source (MIT), self-hosted; users pay their own model costs.
Latest release 2.2.0:
- Reasoning the way each vendor expects it — adaptive thinking, effort levels, thinking budgets, and a real "off" are sent in each model family's native form. Combinations a vendor would reject are…
- Three new providers — MiniMax, Mistral, and xAI, for 13 provider types in total. Any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint works through the custom provider, which now also calls Azure OpenAI…
- Tested, not just listed — every built-in provider, plus example configurations for OpenRouter, DeepInfra, Ollama Cloud, self-hosted vLLM, and others, ships with a ctester report in examples/tests/…
- Current catalogues — GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.x and Fable 5.x, Gemini 3.x, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4, and Grok 4.7, with prices checked against vendor pages. Agent chains are compacted to the…
Strix
An open-source multi-agent penetration testing tool that runs dynamic tests against applications, validates findings with working proofs of concept and proposes fixes; it runs locally with Docker or as a hosted service.
Pricing: Open-source version free to run locally. Strix Cloud Pro is $29 per seat a month with pentests billed separately; Enterprise custom.
Latest release 1.7.0:
- fix(models): frontier model check matches the model name only, never the provider route
- feat(reporting): link HTTP exchange evidence
- feat(prompts): require httpexchangeids for proxy-validated findings
- docs: add Vercel AI Gateway provider guide