# Jules vs Kiro CLI (slim)

> Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) to Jules's 44.5 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- Kiro CLI: C 60.6, rank #557 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.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. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Kiro CLI loses 4 points for them.
- Kiro CLI, good for Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 13; Security & auth, 69 against 57; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 73 against 18; Transparency & trust, 69 against 44. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Jules | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 18 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jules | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google LLC | Amazon Web Services |
| 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. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | 2026-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-18 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | 4.4k stars |