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

> Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (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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Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 5 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
- Kiro CLI: C 60.6, rank #557 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-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 40. Also Open source.
- 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 33; Security & auth, 69 against 40; Transparency & trust, 69 against 50.

| Category | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Amazon Web Services |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-17 | 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 | 245k npm/wk | 4.4k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |