# mini-swe-agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) (slim)

> Warp scores 59.8 (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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Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 56.7 (C), and leads in 3 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
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API): C 59.8, rank #592 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.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 52; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card.
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API), good for Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 58; Maintenance & community, 84 against 49; Transparency & trust, 72 against 51.

| Category | mini-swe-agent | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | mini-swe-agent | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) | Warp |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |