How Snaga compares.
There are three ways to put agents to work — buy a team that arrives assembled, call one vendor's assistant API, or build it on a framework. Every tick in our column links to the page that proves it, and the reasons to choose one of the other two are at the bottom rather than left out.
How a team compares
Three ways to put agents to work: buy a team that ships assembled, call one vendor's assistant API, or build it on a framework. The right answer depends on what you are willing to own.
| Capability | Snaga | Assistant API | Build it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every action that leaves the sandbox waits for a person, and the gate fails closedHow approvals work | yours to build | ||
| Multi-tenant API with roles, so a workspace is scoped from the first request | one tenant | yours to build | |
| Web, a native iOS app and a CLI — the same team on every surfaceThe app | |||
| MCP in both directions: your agents consume tools, and are reachable as oneWhat it connects to | consume only | consume only | |
| Spend caps per agent and per workspace, metered through Stripe | yours to build | ||
| Per-connector consent and the narrowest scope that works, with the live list published rather than assertedThe list | yours to build | ||
| Runs on your own machine, in your repo, with your toolchainSnaga Code | |||
| Self-host the whole platform inside your own perimeter |
Where the other two are ahead
A table where one column is all ticks is an advertisement, not a comparison. These are the reasons to not pick Snaga, written by the people who would rather you picked it.
A framework will bend further
Any model, any topology, any component swapped for your own. Snaga ships an opinion about how a team should work — the approval gate, the plan-build-verify loop, the sandbox — and you live inside it. If your design fights that opinion, the framework is the honest choice.
A large vendor has the compliance file
We hold no SOC 2 report and no ISO certificate today, and we say so on the security page rather than in a footnote. If procurement needs one on the desk this quarter, that is a real reason and not a negotiable one.
What we do and do not claimOne agent in one app does not need a platform
If what you want is a single assistant inside a product you already run, an SDK is less to adopt and less to keep running. A platform earns its cost when there are several agents, several people approving their work, and a bill somebody has to explain.