# Pi vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) (slim)

> Pi scores 68.4 (B) to Warp's 59.8 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)'s 59.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Pi: B 68.4, rank #233 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.min.md
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API): C 59.8, rank #592 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.min.md
- Pi, good for Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 52; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66; Security & auth, 61 against 52; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card.
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API), good for Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 84; Transparency & trust, 72 against 64.

| Category | Pi | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pi | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Earendil | Warp |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk | none |