Control Center vs Conductor.
Conductor and Control Center both run parallel agents in isolated worktrees on a Mac — they diverge at everything around the fleet. Conductor is the smoother, simpler start; Control Center is the whole operation: review and merge, tickets, pipelines, meetings, multiplayer and a server you actually host.
Conductor(opens Conductor in a new tab)Starts at Free · Pro from $50/mo
Checked against Conductor’s public site · August 2026
Side by side.
✓ yes · ≈ partial — hover or focus a ≈ for the reason · — not offered.
| Capability | Control Center | Conductor |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | Free · self-hosted | Free · Pro from $50/mo |
| Free & open source | Yes | Not offered |
| Native desktop · mac / win / linux | Yes | Partial — macOS only — there is no Windows or Linux build. |
| Phone companion | Yes | Not offered |
| Self-hosted headless server | Yes | Not offered |
| Parallel worktree isolation | Yes | Yes |
| In-app PR review & merge | Yes | Partial — A per-task diff with open-PR, stack and merge actions, rather than a review cockpit with threads, checks and verdicts. |
| Pipelines & scheduled triggers | Yes | Not offered |
| Meetings & calendar | Yes | Not offered |
| Multi-user teams | Yes | Partial — Multiplayer is early access, and the admin portal, SAML SSO and SCIM sit on the paid Teams and Enterprise plans. |
How Conductor’s partial cells read: macOS-only desktop, with no Windows or Linux build; per-task diff review with open-PR, stack and merge actions rather than a full review cockpit; Conductor Cloud runs workspaces in hosted Vercel sandboxes and self-hosting is announced but unshipped; multiplayer, the admin portal and SSO are paid tiers (Pro $50/mo, Teams $60/user/mo, Enterprise custom), and the mobile app is still listed as coming soon.
Prices are each vendor’s own list price to use the tool. Every option here bills your model provider separately — you bring your own keys or subscription.
Where Control Center pulls ahead
Everything past the fleet, and on hardware you own: an in-app review cockpit with merge actions, tickets with Linear sync, DAG pipelines, meetings and calendar, memory and a code graph, plus desktop on all three platforms, a phone client and a headless server — where Conductor is Mac-only and its cloud tier is hosted for you.
Where Conductor pulls ahead
You live on a Mac, want the smoothest turnkey parallel-agent experience, and are happy for the hosted half to run on someone else’s servers.
Choosing between them.
What is the difference between Control Center and Conductor?
Conductor and Control Center both run parallel agents in isolated worktrees on a Mac — they diverge at everything around the fleet. Conductor is the smoother, simpler start; Control Center is the whole operation: review and merge, tickets, pipelines, meetings, multiplayer and a server you actually host.
When should I choose Conductor over Control Center?
You live on a Mac, want the smoothest turnkey parallel-agent experience, and are happy for the hosted half to run on someone else’s servers. (macOS-only desktop, with no Windows or Linux build; per-task diff review with open-PR, stack and merge actions rather than a full review cockpit; Conductor Cloud runs workspaces in hosted Vercel sandboxes and self-hosting is announced but unshipped; multiplayer, the admin portal and SSO are paid tiers (Pro $50/mo, Teams $60/user/mo, Enterprise custom), and the mobile app is still listed as coming soon.)
When should I choose Control Center over Conductor?
Everything past the fleet, and on hardware you own: an in-app review cockpit with merge actions, tickets with Linear sync, DAG pipelines, meetings and calendar, memory and a code graph, plus desktop on all three platforms, a phone client and a headless server — where Conductor is Mac-only and its cloud tier is hosted for you.
How much does Conductor cost compared to Control Center?
Starting price — Conductor: Free · Pro from $50/mo. Control Center: Free · self-hosted. Prices are each vendor’s own list price to use the tool. Every option here bills your model provider separately — you bring your own keys or subscription.
See every tool on one grid on the full comparison page, or download Control Center and feel it.