# Auggie CLI vs Crush (slim)

> Crush scores 56.5 (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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Crush scores 56.5 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Auggie CLI leads on agent ergonomics. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Crush: C 56.5, rank #705 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.min.md
- 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 Agent ergonomics, 65 against 52. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5.
- Crush, good for Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks. Ahead on Reliability, 54 against 43; Payments & pricing, 55 against 20; Maintenance & community, 82 against 58. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Crush |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 54 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Crush |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Charm |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | 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 | FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available) |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.3/5 (4) |