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

> Junie CLI scores 53.2 (D) to DeepSeek Harness's 49.2 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Junie CLI scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and 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
- Junie CLI: D 53.2, rank #804 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.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 Schema & documentation, 77 against 62; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 55; Payments & pricing, 60 against 42. Also Open source.
- 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, 45 against 33; Security & auth, 56 against 40; Transparency & trust, 78 against 50.

| Category | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 62 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 42 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | JetBrains |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-12 |
| Popularity | 245k npm/wk | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |