FuXi vs Orca (2026): Which Vibe Coding App Is Better?

Both are popular terminal coding agents. Here is how FuXi and Orca stack up on price, strengths and weaknesses, and which one we would pick.

FuXi

Provider-agnostic terminal coding agent positioned as a bring-your-own-model Claude Code alternative

7.0 /10

Pricing: Freemium

Pros

Feature-rich single static binary: 50+ tools, LSP diagnostics, Jupyter, browser automation, MCP client, durable sessions with checkpoints
Unusually transparent evaluation practice — publishes a reproducible, self-run benchmark against Claude Code with explicit caveats instead of a marketing score

Cons

Source code is proprietary despite living on GitHub — the repo hosts only docs, installers and the issue tracker, not the implementation
Installs via curl-pipe-to-shell, and ships a flag that bypasses all permission checks — treat it the way you would any command with root-level reach

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Orca

An ADE for running fleets of coding agents in parallel worktrees, from desktop or mobile

8.0 /10

Pricing: Open source

Pros

Runs multiple coding agents in parallel isolated worktrees with diff comparison
Free, open source (MIT), backed by Y Combinator
Mobile companion apps for monitoring/steering agents remotely

Cons

No hosted/managed tier documented — you bring your own agent subscriptions
Extremely fast recent star growth is worth watching, even though the activity looks organic

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FuXi vs Orca at a glance

	FuXi	Orca
Editor score	7.0 / 10	8.0 / 10
Pricing model	Freemium	Open source
Starting price	Free	Free
Reader upvotes	0	0
Best for	terminal-agent, provider-agnostic, mcp-client	ade, parallel-agents, claude-code
Agent Skills support	No	No
Subagents support	No	No
MCP support	No	No
AGENTS.md support	No	No
Plugins support	No	No
Hooks support	No	No
Rules support	No	No
Agent skills in this directory	0	0
Subagents & agents in this directory	3	3
MCP servers in this directory	0	0

Our pick

Orca edges it with a score of 8.0 versus 7.0. Orca is the better fit if you value: runs multiple coding agents in parallel isolated worktrees with diff comparison, free, open source (mit), backed by y combinator. Choose FuXi instead if you need: feature-rich single static binary: 50+ tools, lsp diagnostics, jupyter, browser automation, mcp client, durable sessions with checkpoints, unusually transparent evaluation practice — publishes a reproducible, self-run benchmark against claude code with explicit caveats instead of a marketing score.