Head to head · Agent harnesses · October 2026 research run
Agent Zero vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.
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Which one, for what
Best 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
- Reliability, 57 against 52
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
Also in its favour
- No key needed to call it
Watch for
No approval step before shell commands, file changes or outgoing messages. Tool Access defaults to allow
Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) C
Best for Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 89 against 64
- Maintenance & community, 84 against 75
- Transparency & trust, 72 against 55
Watch for
The warp CLI has no print or headless mode. Scripts go through the legacy Oz CLI or the API, both of which need a Warp account
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Agent Zero | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 57 | 52 | Agent Zero +5 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 64 | 89 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +25 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 62 | 66 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +4 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 54 | 52 | Agent Zero +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 20 | Agent Zero +40 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 75 | 84 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 55 | 72 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | -1 | |
| Total | C 54.2/100 | C 59.8/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Agent Zero | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | Warp |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Mixed. The client, including the warp and oz binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the warpui_core and warpui crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |
| Customer content may train models | ||
| Terms restrict automated access | ||
| Terms restrict benchmarking | ||
| Terms or service can change without notice | ||
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | ||
| Popularity | 19k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |
Verdicts
Agent Zero
Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with nine releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026 and breaking changes listed in the release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and five CVEs from the past year have no published GitHub advisory.
Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
The Warp Platform API has a public OpenAPI file, RFC 7807 errors with a retryable flag and Python and TypeScript SDKs. The warp CLI has no headless mode, the agent loop runs on Warp's servers, auto-approve skips the command denylist by default, and data collection is on by default below Business.
Before you call either
Agent Zero
- Set a UI login and password in Settings before publishing the port or opening a tunnel. The default has none
- Fill
allowed_users,allowed_numbersorsender_whitelistbefore enabling a channel. An empty list accepts every sender - Enable the Infection Check plugin when the agent reads mail, web pages or MCP results. It ships disabled
- Run v2.12 or later. It fixes a Telegram webhook authentication bypass and a WhatsApp media path traversal
- Call
POST /api_messagewith theX-API-KEYheader. The token changes when the UI login or password changes
Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- For unattended work, call
POST https://app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runswithAuthorization: Bearer $WARP_API_KEY. ThewarpCLI is interactive only - Use an agent key, scoped to one cloud agent and given an expiry, for CI rather than a personal key. Keys are created in the Oz web app or the Warp app
- Set
auto_approve_bypasses_command_denylist = falseunder[agents.warp_agent.other]before startingwarp --auto-approve - Read
codeandretryablein error bodies. A 429resource_unavailablemeans capacity is full and the platform retries the task itself - Pin a version with
WARP_TUI_VERSIONat install, or setgeneral.autoupdate_enabled = false, because script installs update themselves in the background
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Agent Zero or Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)?
Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on reliability and payments & pricing.
Are Agent Zero and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) open source?
Yes. Agent Zero is open source (MIT). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) is open source (Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0).
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- HarnessRouter vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Jules vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Junie CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Kilo Code CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Kimi Code CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Kiro CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- mini-swe-agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Mistral Vibe CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Muse Code vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- OpenAI Codex vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- OpenCode vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- OpenHands vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Prime Agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Qoder CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Qwen Code vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Mirror CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
- Rovo Dev CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)
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