# Droid CLI vs Harness (slim)

> Harness scores 60.3 (C) to Droid CLI's 59.1 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Harness scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Droid CLI's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Droid CLI leads on reliability, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #614 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.min.md
- Harness: C 60.3, rank #570 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.min.md
- 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 35; Security & auth, 63 against 57; Maintenance & community, 79 against 60.
- Harness, good for A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 72; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Droid CLI | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 49 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Droid CLI | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Factory | Autonomous, Inc. |
| Transports |  | stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | 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 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 7 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 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 | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk | 1.3k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |