# DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Droid CLI (slim)

> Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) to DeepSeek Harness's 49.2 (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 DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- DeepSeek Harness (dsh): D 49.2, rank #909 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.min.md
- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #619 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.min.md
- DeepSeek Harness (dsh), good for Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 10. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- 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 33; Security & auth, 63 against 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 71; Transparency & trust, 64 against 50. Also No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek Harness (dsh) loses 6 points for them.

| Category | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 49 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Factory |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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 | 245k npm/wk | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |