# Auggie CLI vs Droid CLI (slim)

> Droid CLI scores 59.1 (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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Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Auggie 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
- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #619 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-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 Payments & pricing, 20 against 10.
- 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 43; Schema & documentation, 79 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65; Security & auth, 63 against 47; Maintenance & community, 79 against 58; Transparency & trust, 64 against 57.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 49 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Factory |
| 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 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 |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-08-20 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |