# Crush vs Kiro CLI (slim)

> Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) to Crush's 56.5 (C) 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 Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Crush: C 56.5, rank #705 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.min.md
- Kiro CLI: C 60.6, rank #557 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.min.md
- Crush, good for Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 55 against 40; Maintenance & community, 82 against 73. 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 Schema & documentation, 79 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 52; Security & auth, 69 against 44; Transparency & trust, 69 against 56. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5.

| Category | Crush | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 54 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 52 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crush | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Charm | Amazon Web Services |
| Licence | FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available) | 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-18 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| 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 | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk | 4.4k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |