# Harness² vs Qoder CLI (slim)

> Qoder CLI scores 59.3 (C) to Harness²'s 41.6 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Qoder CLI scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Harness² leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Harness²: E 41.6, rank #1040 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness2.min.md
- Qoder CLI: C 59.3, rank #609 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qoder-cli.min.md
- Harness², good for Researchers who want to reproduce or extend the paper's per-task harness refinement on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench with OpenCode or Codex on Vertex AI. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also No key needed to call it; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Qoder CLI loses 3 points for them.
- Qoder CLI, good for Developers already on Qoder who want the same agent in a terminal, in CI through a PAT, in Zed through ACP, or embedded through the Agent SDK. Ahead on Reliability, 51 against 20; Schema & documentation, 81 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 59; Security & auth, 55 against 44; Maintenance & community, 72 against 36; Transparency & trust, 64 against 44. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5.

| Category | Harness² | Qoder CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 51 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 36 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Harness² | Qoder CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google (Google Research) | Qoder (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED) |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation). | Proprietary, under the Qoder Terms of Service (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED, last updated 29 April 2026). No source is published, and the Agent SDK's LICENSE file points to the same terms |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 4.2k stars | 5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |