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

> Warp scores 59.8 (C) to HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- HarnessRouter: D 53.2, rank #803 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.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
- HarnessRouter, good for A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 73 against 66; Security & auth, 58 against 52; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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; Schema & documentation, 89 against 83; Maintenance & community, 84 against 72. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5.

| Category | HarnessRouter | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HarnessRouter | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) | Warp |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides. | 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 | 0 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-15 |
| Popularity | 3.1k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |