# Droid CLI vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) to mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C) 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 mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #619 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.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 Schema & documentation, 79 against 58; Security & auth, 63 against 56; Maintenance & community, 79 against 49; Transparency & trust, 64 against 51. Also No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 49; Payments & pricing, 60 against 10. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Droid CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 49 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Droid CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Factory | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | no document linked |
| 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 | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |