# Junie CLI vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to Junie CLI's 53.2 (D) 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 Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Junie CLI: D 53.2, rank #804 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- 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 Maintenance & community, 72 against 49; Transparency & trust, 78 against 51.
- 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 45; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 55; Payments & pricing, 60 against 42. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Junie CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 62 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Junie CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | JetBrains | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | 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 | MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-12 | no document linked |
| Popularity | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |