# Auggie CLI vs Pi (slim)

> Pi scores 68.4 (B) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Pi: B 68.4, rank #233 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.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. Also No incidents deducted, where Pi loses 4 points for them.
- Pi, good for Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 43; Schema & documentation, 84 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 65; Security & auth, 61 against 47; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 87 against 58; Transparency & trust, 64 against 57. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.8 out of 5.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Pi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Pi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Earendil |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| 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 | MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |