# Jules vs Rovo Dev CLI (slim)

> Jules and Rovo Dev CLI score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 44.5 and 43.9 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Jules and Rovo Dev CLI score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 44.5 (E) and 43.9 (E). Rovo Dev CLI leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- Rovo Dev CLI: E 43.9, rank #1010 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 45; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 53; Security & auth, 57 against 48; Payments & pricing, 30 against 15. Also Runs on your own machine; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5.
- Rovo Dev CLI, good for Teams already on Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket who want the agent to read and update work items and pages from the terminal or a pipeline. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 13; Maintenance & community, 61 against 18; Transparency & trust, 61 against 44.

| Category | Jules | Rovo Dev CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 45 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 53 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 18 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jules | Rovo Dev CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google LLC | Atlassian |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed | Proprietary, under the Atlassian Customer Agreement (effective 1 October 2026) and the Atlassian AI Terms (effective 17 August 2026). No source is published |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |