All comparisonsChecked November 13, 2026
Brigade vs Hark
Hark is a personal AI for one person’s life. Brigade is a team for your company: support, marketing, sales and code, each teammate with its own job, Apps and memory, and your team in the same threads. Brigade runs the official Claude Code and Codex on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for instead of another usage plan, its teammates write and ship code, and it is open source.
Side by side
| Feature | Brigade | Hark |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source app that gives your company a team of AI teammates, each one the official Claude Code or Codex with a job, its own computer, the Apps you give it and a shared memory. | A personal AI for your life, in one conversation, with a virtual computer of its own. |
| Jobs it covers | Support, marketing, sales and code, each teammate with one job. | One person’s tasks: email, errands, food orders, reminders, docs and slides. |
| AI models | Claude through Claude Code and GPT through Codex, side by side; a model per teammate. | Hark’s own models first, and third-party models it does not name. |
| Who pays for AI | Your own Claude or ChatGPT plan. Brigade never bills you for AI usage. | Hark’s own plans: free, or $20 or $100 a month for 2× or 10× the usage. |
| Code | Teammates write, test and ship code, with pull requests and previews. | Builds websites and slides; not made to ship code. |
| Your team | Invite your team: threads, lists and files are shared. | Built for one person; no team plan. |
| Where you talk to it | Brigade’s own app (web, or installed on your phone with push notifications), and with Cloud an email address per teammate. | Its web, iOS and Android apps. |
| Open source | Yes, MIT. You can read every line and host it yourself. | No. |
Which one is for you
Pick Brigade if
- You want teammates for your company’s work (support, marketing, sales, code), not a personal assistant.
- You already pay for Claude Max or ChatGPT Pro and do not want another AI plan.
- You want code written, tested and shipped too.
- You want to read the code, or host it yourself.
Pick Hark if
- You want a personal assistant for your own life, on your phone, with a free plan.
What Hark is
Hark Pro, from Hark Labs, launched on October 6, 2026 as a personal AI that runs your life from one conversation: email, errands, food orders, scheduled tasks and reminders, with memory and Apps such as Google, Outlook and Spotify. Its Handoff agent (a research preview) works on a virtual computer of its own. It runs on Hark’s own models and third-party ones, on the web, iOS and Android, free or at $20 or $100 a month for more usage.
Meet your AI teammates
Start free on your own computer. Brigade runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
Sources, checked on November 13, 2026
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