# Conductor vs Junie CLI (slim)

> Junie CLI scores 49 (D) to Conductor's 41.3 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Junie CLI scores 49 (D) on agent readiness against Conductor's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

- Conductor: E 41.3, rank #1285 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/conductor.min.md
- Junie CLI: D 49, rank #1099 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.min.md
- Conductor, good for Existing Conductor users planning their move before Cloud closes on 20 November 2026 and the local app winds down in early 2027. Also No incidents deducted, where Junie CLI loses 4 points for them.
- Junie CLI, good for Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints. Ahead on Reliability, 33 against 25; Security & auth, 56 against 45; Payments & pricing, 42 against 0; Maintenance & community, 64 against 58; Transparency & trust, 77 against 53. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Conductor | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 25 | 33 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 60 | 62 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 42 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 64 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Conductor | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Conductor (joining Meta) | JetBrains |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary. A closed-source Mac app and hosted Conductor Cloud under Conductor's terms | Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-03 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2025-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | 2026-06-12 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 3.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Junie CLI +42: Conductor 0 (No new sign-ups since 4 November, free users can't upgrade, and no price is shown. No protocol, no published price, no open free tier, no onboarding (0).); Junie CLI 42 (Harness reading of the published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices and the US$1 credit are public without a login, but per-model credit rates and Junie API key usage rates weren't found (12). Junie Lite is free with a JetBrains account and no card (20). Judgement call. The docs present BYOK keys and custom endpoints such as Ollama as alternatives to a JetBrains sign-in, so a pipeline holding a provider key needs no JetBrains signup, but the headless page says a token is required and a Junie API key is created by hand at junie.jetbrains.com/cli (10). 0+12+20+10 = 42. Per the 18 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because JetBrains' website terms bar robots and data mining on its sites.)
- Transparency & trust, Junie CLI +24: Conductor 53 (Closed service with terms and privacy pages (15). The transition notice says when Cloud data deletion begins (20 November) and that all user data is deleted when the app shuts down in early 2027 (20 of 30). Dated shutdown notice (15 of 20). SOC 2 report on a trust portal, subprocessors not read (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 15 + 10 = 60.); Junie CLI 77 (Proprietary, with clear terms. The JetBrains AI Terms of Service (version 2.1, effective 30 September 2025) name AI Assistant and Junie, though the Junie EAP terms from December 2024 still call Junie a plugin (15). The terms rule out training on inputs without consent and list AI subcontractors with 30 days' notice of new ones (page updated 29 September 2026, naming OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and SpaceXAI for Junie). The AI FAQ says nothing persists unless detailed data collection is on, retained up to a year, and that it's on by default for non-commercial licences. Security monitoring keeps data for an unstated limited period (22). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before JetBrains AI is discontinued, but Junie Lite's model may change without notice and model aliases change without a stated period (10). A per-run override for anonymous statistics is documented, with no stated default and no list of what is sent (10). 15+22+10+10 = 57. Per the 18 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because JetBrains' website terms bar robots and data mining on its sites.)
- Security & auth, Junie CLI +11: Conductor 45 (Closed app. Telemetry and data handling weren't read beyond the transition notice (10 of 30). A security and permissions page (10 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance found (5). No audit log found (5). SOC 2 Type II report at trust.conductor.build (15 of 20). 10 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 = 45.); Junie CLI 56 (Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines. A browser login, a long-lived Junie API key with no scopes we found, or provider keys passed as flags or environment variables. The CLI's statistics default isn't stated (13). The allowlist asks before terminal commands, MCP tools, edits outside the project, reads outside it and secret files, and checks every part of chained, nested and multi-line commands. Brave mode is interactive only. Sandbox mode limits writes and hides `~/.ssh`, but it's EAP-only, off by default, missing on Windows, and leaves the network open by default (12). Interactive runs keep an untrusted project's MCP servers, hooks and skills unloaded and a project can't widen the sandbox, but one-shot, piped, ACP and Gateway runs trust every project by design, and the docs say to run them only in trusted projects (9). `/usage` shows per-session cost and sessions are stored, and PreToolUse hooks in batch runs can log or block tools, but they're EAP, and no audit log for the CLI was found (7). A coordinated disclosure policy (updated 10 October 2026) and a security.txt contact, CVEs JetBrains publishes as a CVE numbering authority (three for Junie in cvelistV5) and a fixed-issues page, discretionary rewards with no formal bounty, and SOC 2 per the Junie homepage. The repository has no SECURITY.md, per a clone on 4 November (15). The docs, policy and homepage readings are per the 18 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because JetBrains' website terms bar robots and data mining on its sites. 13+12+9+7+15 = 56.)
- Reliability, Junie CLI +8: Conductor 25 (Read as local software that is winding down. Installed from Conductor's own download, which stopped taking new users on 4 November 2026 (10). Closed source, so no public CI or issue tracker (0, 0). A dated changelog, newest 0.93.0 on 4 November (15). Version 0.93 (0). 10 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 25.); Junie CLI 33 (Local-package reading, the same as the other closed-source harnesses. Install scripts for macOS, Linux and Windows on x86-64 and ARM64, a Homebrew tap and npm, with SHA-256 sums checked against the release feed (update-info.jsonl, read from a clone on 4 November), but the script carries on without a sum for an unlisted version and npm sat five weeks behind at 3110.7.0 on 18 October (17). No public CI or test suite. No source is published and the repository has no workflow files, per a clone on 4 November (0). Crash and regression line 0. The 18 October counts came from shields.io badges and YouTrack's JSON API, both struck in this run, and no first-hand reading of the GitHub tracker or YouTrack is possible today (github.com pages refused, JetBrains hosts paused). What's New dates every build, but entries are one line and no breaking change is called out, and versions are a date plus a build number, per the 18 October check (6). JetBrains said Junie left Beta on 17 June 2026, but the headless page dated 15 October still calls the CLI an EAP, per the 18 October check (10). 17+0+0+6+10 = 33.)
- Maintenance & community, Junie CLI +6: Conductor 58 (0.93.0 on 4 November 2026 (30). Several dated releases in 90 days, per the changelog index (20). Discord, a subreddit and email for support (8). Closed app, no package or CI to read (0). 30 + 20 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 58. The local app gets new models and critical fixes only until early 2027.); Junie CLI 64 (Release 26.11.3 (build 3959.5) added to the release feed on 3 November 2026, read from a clone of JetBrains/junie (30). The release channel added 30 builds between 6 August and 3 November, from 2651.3 on 11 August to 3959.5, and the repository has 1,032 tags created in that window, most of them nightly builds (20). Responsiveness 5 of 25. The 18 October counts of the GitHub tracker and YouTrack came from shields.io badges and YouTrack's JSON API, both struck, so what is left is the dated What's New page and a Discord server, per the 18 October check, with replies unread (5). No SDK and no registry entry. The GitHub Action is at v1 and GitLab CI is documented, and ACP is kept current, per the 18 October check (6). Closed source with no workflow files in the repository, so no CI or dependency health to read. The installer checks sums, and npm sat five weeks behind the release feed on 18 October (3). 30+20+5+6+3 = 64.)