Ruflo vs Symphony
Ruflo (rUv) and Symphony (OpenAI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 21, 2026.
Ruflo has 2.8x the GitHub stars of Symphony (78K against 27.8K). Symphony shipped 2 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Which should you choose?
Choose Ruflo if
- you need to run local models
- you work in the terminal
Choose Symphony if
- you want to run it unattended in scripts or CI
- you prefer the more widely used tool, with more docs and answers around (Gid Score 76 against 46)
Built from documented features, official prices, status pages and usage data on this page; it does not judge output quality.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Ruflo | Symphony |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 46 | 76 |
| Usage data as of | Oct 21 | Oct 21 |
| Rank by Gid Score | #53 | #5 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 43.1K | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 45.5% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | up 9.9% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 78K | 27.8K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 163 |
| Latest stable release | 3.59.6 · today | 0.0.3 · 36d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 2 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| First released | June 2025 | February 2026 |
| Interfaces | CLI, MCP server | Self-hosted |
| Models |
Trends
Ruflo
Open-source agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex by rUv: it installs as Claude Code plugins (core tools, a visual console and mods that add routing and policy enforcement) or runs as an MCP server for Codex and other MCP clients, and coordinates teams (swarms) of agents with shared memory, self-learning and vector search.
Pricing: Free and open source (MIT).
Latest release 3.59.6:
- memory export can now target an explicit store (#4341, fixes #3196). It was the only primary
- @claude-flow/cli@3.59.6, claude-flow@3.59.6, ruflo@3.59.6 — latest/alpha/v3alpha
Symphony
Symphony is a specification and experimental Elixir reference implementation from OpenAI that watches an issue tracker such as Linear and spawns Codex agents to implement tasks, returning CI status, PR reviews and walkthroughs for human review.
Pricing: Free and open source (Apache-2.0).
Latest release 0.0.3:
- Add Symphony release skill
- Scrub GitHub and GitLab authentication token aliases
- Use Bearer authentication for GitLab API requests
- chore: release Symphony 0.0.3
Ruflo vs Symphony: common questions
Which is more popular, Ruflo or Symphony?
Symphony has a Gid Score of 76 against 46 for Ruflo. The score combines package downloads, editor installs, GitHub activity and attention, updated daily.
Do Ruflo and Symphony support local models?
Ruflo documents support for local models; Symphony's documentation does not.