# Amp vs Auggie CLI (slim)

> Amp scores 57.1 (C) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amp scores 57.1 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Auggie CLI leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #691 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 72 against 67; Security & auth, 57 against 47; Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 79 against 58; Transparency & trust, 77 against 57.
- Auggie CLI, good for Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 31.

| Category | Amp | Auggie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 58 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Auggie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Harness (formerly Augment Code) |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | Proprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-08-21 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 16k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |