# Amp vs Droid CLI (slim)

> Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) to Amp's 57.1 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #620 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #560 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.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 Payments & pricing, 35 against 10; Transparency & trust, 77 against 64.
- Droid CLI, good for Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan. Ahead on Reliability, 49 against 31; Schema & documentation, 79 against 72; Security & auth, 63 against 57.

| Category | Amp | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 49 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Factory |
| 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, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-07-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-20 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk |