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

> Kiro CLI scores 60.6 (C) to mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C) 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 mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Kiro CLI: C 60.6, rank #557 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- 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 Schema & documentation, 79 against 58; Security & auth, 69 against 56; Maintenance & community, 73 against 49; Transparency & trust, 69 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 57; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Kiro CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kiro CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | 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 | MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| 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 | yes |  |
| Popularity | 4.4k stars | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |