# Auggie CLI vs Cursor CLI (slim)

> Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) to Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Cursor CLI: F 35.3, rank #1085 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.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 Reliability, 43 against 27; Schema & documentation, 67 against 39; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 42. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where Cursor CLI loses 5 points for them.
- Cursor CLI, good for Teams already on Cursor who want the same agent and rules in a terminal or CI and a hand-off to Cloud Agents. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Cursor CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 27 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 39 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 42 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 46 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 62 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Cursor CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Cursor |
| 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 | Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-09-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-29 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (2) |