Campfyrr vs Conductor: parallel agents that don't collide, and don't contradict
By Soumen Sarkar · October 2026
Comparison. If you want to run many coding agents at once without them trampling each other's files, use Conductor. If those agents keep making calls that contradict each other, use Campfyrr. Most developers running agents in parallel on a team end up with both problems.
What are you trying to fix?
If you want to run many coding agents at once without them trampling each other's files, use Conductor. If those agents keep making calls that contradict each other, use Campfyrr. Most developers running agents in parallel on a team end up with both problems.
- "I want five agents working at once, and I want to review what each one made." Conductor. Each task gets its own branch and git worktree, and you review and merge from one window (Conductor).
- "My agents never touch the same file, but they still disagree." Campfyrr. What one agent decided reaches the next one before it edits that part of the code.
- "I'm the only thing connecting my agents, and I can't hold every call in my head." Campfyrr. Decisions are recorded with their reasons as agents work, and nobody has to relay them.
The same day, with each
This is a scene, not a customer: three developers and a PM on a normal Thursday. Kofi, one of the developers, runs his own agents in parallel.
In the morning Kofi opens three workspaces: a CSV export endpoint, an invoices endpoint and a small bug fix. The export agent has to choose how money appears in responses. It picks whole cents, a sensible call. An hour later, in its own worktree, the invoices agent picks decimal strings like "12.50", also sensible.
With Conductor, the worktrees do their job: the agents never touch the same file, so nothing conflicts. Kofi reviews each diff, an hour apart, and each looks right on its own. Both merge cleanly. The next morning, the developer building the billing screen calls both endpoints and gets money in two shapes. Somebody spends an afternoon changing one endpoint and its tests, and telling the PM why the export slipped.
With Campfyrr, Kofi runs the same three agents, and the export agent's choice is recorded as a decision, with its reason, as it works. When the invoices agent first reads a file in the same API code, a hook gives it an area brief: the export work in progress with its plan, and the decision about cents. It uses cents. It also assumes refunded orders belong in the export. That assumption goes to the PM as a link, and she corrects it in a line. The agent has her answer at its next turn.
At the end of the day, Conductor gave Kofi what Campfyrr can't: three agents running at once, watched and merged from one window. Campfyrr gave the team what worktrees can't: two endpoints that agree.
When Conductor is the better choice
Often. Campfyrr doesn't run agents at all.
- You work alone, on tasks that don't overlap. If your agents rarely make the same kind of call, a worktree per task and a careful review may be all you need.
- Your pain is agents colliding in one checkout, or reviewing what each made. A worktree per task and one window to review and merge is the cleanest fix. Campfyrr doesn't isolate files or review code.
- You want to steer a run live with a teammate. Conductor Cloud lets teammates join a workspace through a link, prompt the agent together and read the transcript as it happens (RuntimeWire). Campfyrr keeps decisions and handoffs, not transcripts.
What it costs
Conductor's prices come from search summaries of its pricing page, which we couldn't open, so confirm before buying (Conductor pricing). Local workspaces on a Mac are free. Pro is $50 a month and adds cloud workspaces, multiplayer and the API. Teams is $60 per user a month for five or more, invite-only for now. For 5 developers on Teams, five times sixty is $300 a month; if the 3 business teammates need seats too, eight times sixty is $480. We couldn't confirm whether watching a workspace needs a seat.
Campfyrr is $9 per developer a month, minimum 3, or $7 billed yearly; business teammates who read and answer are free (pricing). Five times nine is $45 a month, or $35 billed yearly. Everything is free during early access. Both together cost $45 a month with Conductor's free local tier, or $345 with Conductor Teams.
The cost that matters more is yours. With Conductor alone, you start, watch, review and merge each workspace, and you are the only link between them: every call one agent makes, you remember and carry to the others. With Campfyrr, each developer installs the plugin once. After that, the daily job is answering an assumption when one is sent to you.
Verdict
Choose Conductor if you want several agents running at once, kept out of each other's files, and reviewed from one window.
Choose Campfyrr if your agents, or your teammates' agents, keep building on calls the others never heard about (sessions don't know about each other), or the glue you wrote to keep them in step became its own project (Claude across every system). See what a session gets.
Use both if you run parallel agents in Conductor and work on a team. Conductor keeps the files apart; Campfyrr keeps the decisions together. More on how they fit is in worktrees and parallel agents, and every product in this space is reviewed in our research.
The problem this answers: Sessions don't know about each other: "My teammates' Claude Code sessions don't know what each other are doing."
The principle behind this: Build on what's coming: Unfinished work is a promise, and a promise can be built on.
Move as one at agent speed. Nobody waits. Add Campfyrr to Claude: it briefs every agent before it touches the code, keeps assumptions and handoffs where the team can see them, and never takes your code (what it keeps).