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dev-mux vs Omnara
Omnara (YC S25) calls itself a command center for your coding agents; dev-mux calls itself mission control for a fleet of them. Same instinct — agents deserve better than a wall of terminal tabs — but the two products make opposite architectural bets: Omnara syncs your sessions through its cloud; dev-mux puts a control plane inside your own network. Which bet is right depends on what you're running.
What Omnara actually is
Omnara began as an open-source CLI wrapper that mirrored Claude Code sessions to a hosted dashboard. Today it's a closed platform built on the Claude Agent SDK: sessions run locally (or in Omnara's optional managed cloud sandboxes) and sync through Omnara's hosted service to web, desktop, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Android — with push notifications on permission prompts, one-tap approve/reject, git diff review, and voice steering. Per-session agent babysitting, done very well.
At a glance
As of July 31, 2026. If something here is stale, tell us.
| dev-mux | Omnara | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Self-hosted fleet control plane | Cloud command center for agent sessions |
| Scope | Every machine, repo, and agent you own — one live map | One session at a time, on many devices |
| Where state lives | Your hub, on your tailnet; code never stored | Omnara's hosted service stores synced session activity |
| Sessions | tmux-native — adopts whatever you already run | Their bundled Claude Code / Codex runtime (Agent SDK) |
| Agents supported | Agent-agnostic transport (tuned for Claude Code) | Claude Code + Codex |
| Machine health / freshness | Yes — stale state flagged in seconds, CPU/mem per box | — |
| Surfaces | Browser, TUI, iOS, G2 glasses, Telegram | Web, desktop, iOS, Apple Watch, Android |
| Execution options | Your machines only, by design | Your machine, or their managed cloud sandboxes |
| Open source | Commercial; runtime on your machines | Legacy repo deprecated; current platform closed/hosted |
| Backing | Bootstrapped product business | YC S25, ~$500K seed |
| Price | Solo $25/mo · Team $100/mo · Custom | Free (10 sessions/mo) · Pro $20/mo · Enterprise |
Where Omnara shines
- Mobile polish — approvals, diff review, voice, Apple Watch: the per-session phone experience is the slickest in the category.
- Zero infrastructure — nothing to host; sign up and your next session appears everywhere.
- Managed sandboxes — if you *want* a vendor to run the box, they'll do that too.
Where dev-mux is a different animal
- Fleet, not session. Omnara answers "what is this session doing?" dev-mux answers "what is everything doing?" — a freshness-aware map of every agent on every machine, with attention signals that tell you who needs you next.
- Your network, not their cloud. Omnara's multi-device magic works by syncing session activity through their hosted service. dev-mux's works by putting the hub inside your own WireGuard tailnet — no vendor in the data path, nothing stored off your machines.
- Runs what you already run. Omnara's current platform bundles its own agent runtime. dev-mux adopts your existing tmux sessions and whatever agent CLI you use in them — the transport is agent-agnostic.
- Heterogeneous fleets welcome. Cloud VMs, old MacBooks, Raspberry Pis, LXC containers — anything with bash 3.2 + tmux + git is a spoke. No wrapper runtime required on any box.
- Terminal and team surfaces. A real TUI cockpit for terminal people, glasses for the fun of it, and a Team plan with seats and roles — none of which fits a per-session client model.
Common questions
Is Omnara cheaper?
Pro is $20/mo vs Solo's $25/mo, with a 10-session free tier. You're buying different things: a per-session cloud service vs dedicated single-tenant infrastructure for an unlimited fleet.
Does my code transit Omnara's servers?
Synced session activity is stored by their hosted service — that's the mechanism. dev-mux keeps everything inside your own tailnet, and the hub never stores code.
Is Omnara open source?
It was (Apache-2.0); that repo is deprecated and the current Claude Agent SDK platform is closed and hosted.
A command center watches a session. Mission control runs the fleet.
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