# Jules vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to Jules's 44.5 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema & documentation. Both do agent harnesses.

- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.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 58. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 13; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 64; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 49 against 18; Transparency & trust, 51 against 44. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Jules | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 18 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jules | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google LLC | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |
| 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 | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |