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DeepSeek Harness vs Prime Agent
A side by side look at DeepSeek Harness and Prime Agent: pricing, features and what each one is best for.
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| Visit DeepSeek Harness | Visit Prime Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ||
| Pricing | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing details | Free and MIT licensed with no paid tier - self-hosted only, so the only cost is the inference you point it at | Free and MIT licensed, installed with a checksum-verified script from app.primeintellect.ai. On first launch you run /login and pick either a subscription or an API-key provider, so inference is billed by whichever provider you choose. Prime Intellect publishes no pricing page for the agent itself. |
| Price range | Not published by the vendor | No pricing page found |
| Free option | No free option | Free tier |
| What it is | ||
| What it does | DeepSeek open-source agent harness built so that every capability is a plugin, which passed 200,000 GitHub stars within three weeks of its first release. | An MIT-licensed coding and research agent from Prime Intellect built on a persistent Python REPL, where context is a variable and subagents are function calls. |
| The details | ||
| GitHub stars | 207,574stars | 21,423stars |
| Language | TypeScript | Rust |
| Last commit | 31 Aug 2026 | 30 Sept 2026 |
What it costs
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Free and MIT licensed with no paid tier - self-hosted only, so the only cost is the inference you point it at
- Price range
- Not published by the vendor
- Free option
- No free option
What it is
- What it does
- DeepSeek open-source agent harness built so that every capability is a plugin, which passed 200,000 GitHub stars within three weeks of its first release.
The details
- GitHub stars
- 207,574stars
- Language
- TypeScript
- Last commit
- 31 Aug 2026
What it costs
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Free and MIT licensed, installed with a checksum-verified script from app.primeintellect.ai. On first launch you run /login and pick either a subscription or an API-key provider, so inference is billed by whichever provider you choose. Prime Intellect publishes no pricing page for the agent itself.
- Price range
- No pricing page found
- Free option
- Free tier
What it is
- What it does
- An MIT-licensed coding and research agent from Prime Intellect built on a persistent Python REPL, where context is a variable and subagents are function calls.
The details
- GitHub stars
- 21,423stars
- Language
- Rust
- Last commit
- 30 Sept 2026
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