# Amp vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> Amp and mini-swe-agent score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 57.1 and 56.7 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amp and mini-swe-agent score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.1 (C) and 56.7 (C). mini-swe-agent leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #691 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.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 58; Maintenance & community, 79 against 49; Transparency & trust, 77 against 51. Also No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.
- 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 31; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Amp | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | no document linked |
| 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 | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |