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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Currents vs Hatchet
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Currents and Hatchet — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Currents vs Hatchet: at a glance
What is Currents?
Currents starts recording any agent task, not just Playwright test runs.
Currents built a Playwright test dashboard and has spent the autumn opening it to agents: shareable failure links, scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, run attachments, a trace API and listings in the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories. On November 12 it added Sessions, where an agent saves the browser recording or files from any task and gets one link with a page for people and a Markdown version for other agents.
What is Hatchet?
Hatchet chases DAG crash loops through three engine patches in a day.
Hatchet added sandboxes, Labs switches and cloud MFA in early November. The week since has been engine reliability: v0.120.3 batches DAG step triggers, v0.120.4 fixes stranded match rows and prunes database partitions before locking, and v0.120.5 removes another cause of DAG crash loops. Python SDK 1.46.0 makes it easier to unit-test tasks and passes failures to cleanup dependencies.
Currents vs Hatchet: editorial side-by-side
Currents
7.5INFRA · APIS
Currents starts recording any agent task, not just Playwright test runs.
◆ Current state
Currents built a Playwright test dashboard and has spent the autumn opening it to agents: shareable failure links, scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, run attachments, a trace API and listings in the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories. On November 12 it added Sessions, where an agent saves the browser recording or files from any task and gets one link with a page for people and a Markdown version for other agents.
◆ Where it's heading
Until now every release made test results easier for agents to read. Sessions turns the direction around: agents write their own work into Currents, and the product's scope widens from CI test runs to a record of what agents did. The pattern of pairing a human page with a Markdown twin, first used for failure links in September, is now the product's standard output.
◆ Prediction
Expect Sessions to be wired into the existing pull request comment and MCP server next, since earlier releases connected each new artifact to both within weeks.
Hatchet
6.3INFRA · APIS
Hatchet chases DAG crash loops through three engine patches in a day.
◆ Current state
Hatchet added sandboxes, Labs switches and cloud MFA in early November. The week since has been engine reliability: v0.120.3 batches DAG step triggers, v0.120.4 fixes stranded match rows and prunes database partitions before locking, and v0.120.5 removes another cause of DAG crash loops. Python SDK 1.46.0 makes it easier to unit-test tasks and passes failures to cleanup dependencies.
◆ Where it's heading
After a burst of features, Hatchet is tuning the engine under load: fewer locks, batched triggers and crash-loop fixes. The SDKs are getting testing and correctness work to match.
◆ Prediction
Expect more v0.120.x patches on DAG handling, then a sandbox package out of release candidate.
Alternatives to Currents and Hatchet
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Currents or Hatchet.
Payload CMS
Payload's v4 beta.9 keeps every past image crop and raises the Node floor again.
Nautobot
Nautobot 3.3 alpha 2 adds test helpers and a cable location filter after 3.2.9's token-leak fix.
Clair
Clair 4.10 RC can read SBOMs to match Java vulnerabilities.
Shuffle
Shuffle tags builds almost daily, but the notes are empty.
KrakenD
KrakenD's community edition is shipping only dependency bumps.
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Recent activity from Currents and Hatchet
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 15h agoHatchetHatchet v0.120.5 fixes another DAG crash loop
- 16h agoHatchetPython SDK 1.46.0
- 19h agoHatchetHatchet v0.120.4 fixes stranded match rows
- 21h agoHatchetv0.120.4 alpha prunes partitions before locking
- 1d agoHatchetHatchet sandbox package 0.1.5 release candidate
- 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.120.3 batches DAG step triggers
- 2d agoCurrentsSessions: agents save task recordings to one shareable link ⚡
- 11d agoCurrents[New] Connect Currents from the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories
- 26d agoCurrents[Improved] A better GitHub run comment
- 26d agoCurrents[New] Project Overview
- 1mo agoCurrents[New] Trace API for agents ⚡
- 1mo agoCurrents[New] Run attachments
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Currents and Hatchet?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Currents is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Currents better than Hatchet?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Currents is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Currents?
Top Currents alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Currents alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/currents-dev for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Hatchet?
Top Hatchet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hatchet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hatchet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.