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

> Harness and Warp score within a point of each other for multi-agent orchestration, 60.3 and 59.8 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Harness and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.3 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Harness: C 60.3, rank #573 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.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
- 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 Agent ergonomics, 82 against 66; Security & auth, 57 against 52; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine; 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 Reliability, 52 against 35; Maintenance & community, 84 against 60.

| Category | Harness | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Harness | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Autonomous, Inc. | Warp |
| Transports | stdio |  |
| Auth | OAuth | 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 |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-15 |
| Popularity | 1.3k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |