# mini-swe-agent vs Muse Code (slim)

> Muse Code scores 61.3 (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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Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- Muse Code: C 61.3, rank #521 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.min.md
- 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; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Muse Code, good for Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 69; Security & auth, 67 against 56; Maintenance & community, 75 against 49; Transparency & trust, 57 against 51. Also No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.

| Category | mini-swe-agent | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | mini-swe-agent | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) | Meta |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-10-11 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk | 63k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |