Agents Deck vs Conductor
Comparison built from the comparison reference as of September 28, 2026, with official sources. No benchmark was run between the two tools. Corrections welcome.
Conductor, by Melty Labs, offers local and cloud workspaces for coding agents. A beta API and cloud MCP let you create, prompt and supervise workspaces; Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Cursor are documented as supported providers (Cursor through its own API). An external manager can drive these primitives; Agents Deck’s ticket/delivery/acceptance model still needs to be defined separately if you want it alongside Conductor. Human collaboration is part of Conductor’s paid plans, so this is not just an isolated-terminal launcher.
What the comparison shows as of September 28, 2026
| Criterion | Agents Deck | Conductor |
|---|---|---|
| Reusable roles across missions | Built in | Assemble |
| Role → ticket → session → delivery | Built in | Assemble |
| Acceptance reserved for the Team Leader | Built in | Assemble |
| History by subject, with linked tickets | Built in | Assemble |
| Multiple runtimes in one project | Built in | Built in |
| Content encrypted per organisation (hardware master key) | Built in | Not established |
“Built in”: found as-is in the product or its documentation. “Assemble”: possible from documented primitives, but needs extra integration or work. “Not established”: not confirmed by the sources reviewed, which does not mean impossible.
Conductor natively supports multiple runtimes inside the same workspace. A model of reusable roles, tickets linked to sessions, and deliveries accepted by a third party still needs to be built on top of the API or MCP if you need one. Per-organisation encryption is not documented in the sources reviewed.
Pricing as of September 28, 2026
Agents Deck: Free (1 project, 3 collaborators + Team Leader); Pro at €19/user/month, subscribe online; Enterprise on request. Official site
Conductor: free locally; Pro $50/month; Teams $60/user/month by invitation; Enterprise on request. The page states it does not add cloud compute charges for now, with a future change announced. Conductor pricing
Agents Deck limits to know
- One active Team Leader per project.
- No guaranteed automatic restart: resumption depends on the local service and the machine’s availability.
- Apps for Mac and Windows; any MCP client can connect to Agents Deck.
- No fully self-hosted offering and no open-source status for this product.
When to choose each
Conductor is worth a look if you want to drive local or cloud workspaces with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor, notably through API or MCP, without necessarily building a ticket-and-acceptance model on top.
Agents Deck is worth evaluating when tracking, responsibilities, review and access rights need to form one coherent path, with tickets and an acceptance decision reserved for the Team Leader.
These pointers follow from the features described above, without ranking quality or claiming a quantified gain between the two tools.
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Reference review: September 28, 2026. Sources for the Conductor side: API, supported providers, cloud FAQ and pricing. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.