Conductor vs Vibe Kanban

Conductor

A tidy control room for developers who already use terminal coding agents and want to run several at once with clean isolation and a review step. It adds orchestration rather than its own model, so you still pay your agent providers. Anyone happy with a single agent in an editor will not gain much.

Pros

• +Free tier with local workspaces and bring-your-own subscriptions or keys
• +Each task isolated in its own workspace and branch
• +Supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode agents
• +SOC 2 Type II badge shown on the site

Cons

• −Desktop app is Mac-only
• −Cloud workspaces need the paid Pro plan
• −Cloud compute pricing is expected to move to usage-based billing

Vibe Kanban

A practical way to run several coding agents side by side without losing track of which branch is doing what, as long as you accept that it is now maintained by volunteers rather than a funded team. It suits developers who already use command-line agents and want a board and review layer on top.

Pros

• +Works with ten or more coding agents, so you are not locked to one
• +Each task gets its own git worktree, which keeps parallel agents from colliding
• +Inline diff comments feed straight back to the agent
• +Open source under Apache-2.0 and runs locally with one command

Cons

• −Hosted team features such as shared issues and organisations were removed after the shutdown
• −Future development depends on community maintainers and no published roadmap was confirmed
• −Needs separate, usually paid, accounts for the underlying coding agents

Is Conductor cheaper than Vibe Kanban?

Vibe Kanban is free to use; Conductor starts at $50/mo.

Does Conductor or Vibe Kanban have a free tier?

Both: Conductor has a free tier, and Vibe Kanban is free to use.

Which has a public API, Conductor or Vibe Kanban?

Conductor ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Vibe Kanban is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.