# Auggie CLI vs Kiro CLI (slim)

> Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (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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Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) 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
- Kiro CLI: C 60.6, rank #557 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-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. Also No incidents deducted, where Kiro CLI loses 4 points for them.
- Kiro CLI, good for Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 43; Schema & documentation, 79 against 67; Security & auth, 69 against 47; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 73 against 58; Transparency & trust, 69 against 57. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Amazon Web Services |
| 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. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-05-18 |
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| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 4.4k stars |