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title: "Pace vs Shiro"
description: "An evidence-based comparison of Pace and Shiro: tier picker + recipes vs parallel sub-agents + RAG."
canonical: https://heypace.app/compared/shiro/
last-updated: 2026-08-27
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# Pace vs Shiro

An evidence-based comparison of Pace and Shiro: tier picker + recipes vs parallel sub-agents + RAG.

## Product posture

- **Product:** [Shiro](https://github.com/abhisheksharma001/shiro)
- **Maintainer:** abhisheksharma001
- **License:** MIT; open source under MIT
- **Runtime posture:** hybrid
- **Speech-to-text:** Deepgram Nova-3 (meeting mode)
- **Reasoner:** Local-first (LM Studio / Ollama) with Claude fallback
- **Text-to-speech:** Local
- **Screen-aware:** Yes

## What the competing product does well

- Parallel sub-agents with atomic SQL checkout, persona injection, depth & budget guards.
- Hybrid RAG using sqlite-vec + FTS5 in one SQLite file — live knowledge graph updates on every tool call.
- Meeting mode with ScreenCaptureKit audio capture + live action item extraction.

## Where Pace differs

Shiro's parallel sub-agents and hybrid RAG knowledge graph are architecturally beyond Pace's single-thread agent loop. Pace has the tier picker, trust surfaces, and recipe library Shiro doesn't ship. Shiro's meeting mode is a surface Pace could add.

This comparison does not claim ratings, market rank, or user-review scores.