# Agent Zero vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to Agent Zero's 54.2 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Agent Zero: C 54.2, rank #775 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- Agent Zero, good for A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 64 against 58; Maintenance & community, 75 against 49.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 62. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Agent Zero | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent Zero | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-07-23 |
| Popularity | 19k stars | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |