# Jules vs Junie CLI (slim)

> Junie CLI scores 53.2 (D) to Jules's 44.5 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Junie CLI scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do agent harnesses.

- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- Junie CLI: D 53.2, rank #804 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.min.md
- Jules, good for A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 62; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 55. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Junie CLI loses 3 points for them.
- Junie CLI, good for Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints. Ahead on Reliability, 45 against 13; Payments & pricing, 42 against 30; Maintenance & community, 72 against 18; Transparency & trust, 78 against 44. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Jules | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 62 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 42 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 18 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jules | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google LLC | JetBrains |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed | Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-06-12 |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk |