# mini-swe-agent vs OpenMausBot (slim)

> OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) to mini-swe-agent's 57.1 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 57.1 (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 57.1, rank #729 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md
- OpenMausBot: B 65.4, rank #368 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.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 60; Payments & pricing, 60 against 50. Also No key needed to call it.
- OpenMausBot, good for A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 69; Maintenance & community, 74 against 49. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | mini-swe-agent | OpenMausBot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | mini-swe-agent | OpenMausBot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) | Supamaus Software Private Limited |
| Transports |  | stdio |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 20 |
| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-10-30 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-18 |
| 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 |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk | 8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |