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It's pre-1.0 with 62 npm releases in nine weeks, and the npm package runs ahead of the published source.", "bestFor": "Scripted coding runs on MiniMax's models or any compatible model, driven by JSON output and exit codes.", "strengths": [ "MIT-licensed CLI on npm, with `mcode exec` returning versioned JSON and nine documented exit codes", "`mcode acp` for editors and agent hosts, and BYOK for any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible provider without a MiniMax login", "Telemetry off by default, each channel opted into separately, with every field and destination documented", "Headless fails on a pending permission request instead of approving it, and `--timeout` and `--max-steps` bound a run", "62 npm releases between 14 August and 15 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Pre-1.0 and labelled a source preview, with npm at 0.6.12 and the public source at 0.6.5", "The default headless policy sends actions to a cloud classifier, and what it sends isn't documented", "Which actions run inside the sandbox by default isn't documented", "The CLI changelog trails npm by five releases", "The MiniMax Agent terms take a perpetual, irrevocable licence over what users submit through MiniMax's services and what they generate, and the privacy policy states no retention period" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run `mcode exec --cwd \u003crepo\u003e --output-format json --timeout 10m --max-steps 50` and check both the exit code and the JSON `status`", "Keep `--permission full` and `off` for a container or throwaway workspace. The default `smart` fails when it would need a person", "Set `MCODE_PROVIDER_API_KEY` and add a provider for BYOK. M Plan models need a browser sign-in with `mcode login --region global`", "Set `MINIMAX_DATA_DIR` per CI runner. 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Ltd.", "domain": "minimax.io", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://agent.minimax.io/doc/en/terms-of-service.html", "privacy": "https://agent.minimax.io/doc/en/privacy-policy.html", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://agent.minimax.io/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-19", "notes": [ "The MiniMax Agent terms of use and privacy policy, both updated 19 January 2026 and linked from the download page, name Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., as do the MiniMax API terms. The repository's MIT licence names 'MiniMax Code' as the copyright holder.", "SECURITY.md takes private reports at a dedicated MiniMax Code security address and through GitHub's private advisories, with no response SLA. platform.minimax.io answers 404 for /.well-known/security.txt and www.minimax.io redirects it to the home page.", "RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27, as recorded on the MiniMax Video API listing." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-code.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-code", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:03.5197794Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:03.5197794Z" } }, "answer": "MiniMax Code scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Prime Agent's 60.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "prime-agent", "name": "Prime Agent", "vendor": "Prime Intellect", "vendorUrl": "https://www.primeintellect.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Prime Agent is an open-source coding and research agent from Prime Intellect, run from a terminal. The model works through a persistent Python REPL, spawns subagents as function calls and keeps sessions running in a background daemon.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prime-agent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account of its own is required. `/login` on first launch picks a subscription or an API-key provider, and provider keys can also come from environment variables such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` or `PRIME_API_KEY`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT-licensed, with nothing to buy for the agent itself. The model provider is paid separately, and Prime Intellect's own inference service is one of the providers.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README or the source (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 21614, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent#readme", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "rust", "mcp", "telemetry-default-on", "pre-1.0", "beta" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 567, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 42, "security": 50, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas.", "bestFor": "Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, with CI on main passing on 8 October 2026 (fmt, clippy with warnings as errors, sharded tests, cargo-deny)", "Three model tools (bash, edit, ipython). MCP tools are found and called from Python, so their definitions stay out of the prompt", "Autonomous mode takes limits on turns, tokens, time and continuations, plus user-defined quality gates with retries", "A daemon supervises one worker per session, restarts it with backoff and restores from append-only JSONL session files", "Telemetry is disclosed on first run, carries primitive values only and has four documented ways to turn it off" ], "weaknesses": [ "No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox", "The stable channel (v0.9.8, 29 September 2026) is the TypeScript build. The Rust code on main ships only as nightly betas", "No documentation site for Prime Agent. Headless, JSON, RPC and ACP modes are described only in source and crate READMEs", "Usage telemetry is on by default, and the vendor privacy policy (updated 23 February 2024) does not describe it", "No SECURITY.md in the repository, and public issues and unsolicited pull requests are closed automatically" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run it in a disposable clone, container or VM. It executes model-written Python and shell commands with the user's rights and asks nothing first", "Set `PRIME_AGENT_TELEMETRY=0` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first run if usage metrics must not leave the machine", "For unattended runs pass `--autonomous-max-turns`, `--autonomous-max-tokens` and `--autonomous-timeout-ms`. Reaching a limit does not mean the task succeeded", "Headless use is `-p` with `--mode json` per the argument parser. A provider key must already be configured, because `/login` is interactive", "The `-t/--tools`, `-nt/--no-tools` and `-nbt/--no-builtin-tools` flags were removed and now fail as unknown options" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 42, "security": 50, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 61 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://app.primeintellect.ai/prime-agent/install.sh | sh" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/prime-agent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Prime Intellect, Inc.", "domain": "primeintellect.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.primeintellect.ai", "changelog": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The site footer, terms and privacy policy name Prime Intellect, Inc. of Dover, Delaware. The repository LICENSE names Prime Intellect Ltd. as copyright holder.", "www.primeintellect.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. A security policy with a reporting address is at https://www.primeintellect.ai/security.", "The status page covers Prime Intellect's hosted platform (API, inference, sandboxes), not the locally run agent.", "The LICENSE adds that the software is a port of the Prime Agent TypeScript product, originally copyright 2025 Mario Zechner, used under the MIT licence. GitHub's licence detector reports the file as unrecognised." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.json", "live": { "slug": "prime-agent", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.primeintellect.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T17:24:06.979841703Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent", "version": "v0.10.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T04:14:03.489307659Z" } ], "githubStars": 22140, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://primeintellect.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:14.478834348Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "primeintellect.ai", "registered": "2023-08-22", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/primeintellect.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:40:47.69730239Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:47:05.788537042Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:40:19.183107547Z", "fingerprint": "bb7d733da519" }, { "url": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:47:07.925597899Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:40:21.483306034Z", "fingerprint": "5901c2293df5" } ], "github": { "repo": "primeintellect-ai/prime-agent", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:40:43.206254044Z", "stars": 22145, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-18T23:13:11Z", "openIssues": 20, "openPRs": 126, "issuesOpened90d": 429, "issuesClosed90d": 409, "prsMerged90d": 1296, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 19, "failure": 3, "other": 28, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-16T23:25:44Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 0 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T17:24:06.979841703Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Prime Intellect", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT for first-party code, with the bundled sandbox runtime under Apache-2.0. The desktop app's source isn't published", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-15", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-01-19", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-01-19", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2k stars, 6.8k npm/wk", "b": "22k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (4)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MiniMax Code scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Prime Agent's 60.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Code or Prime Agent?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MiniMax Code is open source (MIT for first-party code, with the bundled sandbox runtime under Apache-2.0. The desktop app's source isn't published). Prime Agent is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are MiniMax Code and Prime Agent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 50" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Scripted coding runs on MiniMax's models or any compatible model, driven by JSON output and exit codes.", "slug": "minimax-code", "watchFor": "Pre-1.0 and labelled a source preview, with npm at 0.6.12 and the public source at 0.6.5" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.", "slug": "prime-agent", "watchFor": "No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Aider vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Aider vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Claude Code vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Cline vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cline vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Devin vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Devin vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Pi vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Pi vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "goose vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "goose vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Harness² vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Harness² vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Jules vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-opencode.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-openhands.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-warp.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Mistral Vibe CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Muse Code vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenAI Codex vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-warp.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Harness vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Harness vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Parallax vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 2, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "reliability", "minimax-code": 63, "name": "Reliability", "prime-agent": 65, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 39, "edge": "minimax-code", "key": "schema", "minimax-code": 81, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "prime-agent": 42, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "minimax-code", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-code": 75, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "prime-agent": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "minimax-code", "key": "security", "minimax-code": 57, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "prime-agent": 50, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "minimax-code": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "prime-agent": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-code": 77, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "prime-agent": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "transparency", "minimax-code": 61, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "prime-agent": 64, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "MiniMax Code scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Prime Agent's 60.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "minimax-code": "An MIT-licensed terminal coding agent with a headless mode that returns versioned JSON, documented exit codes and an ACP server, and telemetry off by default. It's pre-1.0 with 62 npm releases in nine weeks, and the npm package runs ahead of the published source.", "prime-agent": "Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "MiniMax Code scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Prime Agent's 60.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- MiniMax Code: grade B, 67.5/100, rank #277 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-code.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-code.json\n- Prime Agent: grade C, 60.5/100, rank #567 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prime-agent.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 752 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### MiniMax Code (B)\n\nGood for: Scripted coding runs on MiniMax's models or any compatible model, driven by JSON output and exit codes.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Pre-1.0 and labelled a source preview, with npm at 0.6.12 and the public source at 0.6.5\n\n### Prime Agent (C)\n\nGood for: Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax Code | Prime Agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 65 | Prime Agent +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 42 | MiniMax Code +39 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 73 | MiniMax Code +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 50 | MiniMax Code +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 79 | Prime Agent +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 64 | Prime Agent +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.5 · B** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax Code | Prime Agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Prime Intellect |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT for first-party code, with the bundled sandbox runtime under Apache-2.0. The desktop app's source isn't published | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-01-19 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-19 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 2k stars, 6.8k npm/wk | 22k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**MiniMax Code.** An MIT-licensed terminal coding agent with a headless mode that returns versioned JSON, documented exit codes and an ACP server, and telemetry off by default. It's pre-1.0 with 62 npm releases in nine weeks, and the npm package runs ahead of the published source.\n\n**Prime Agent.** Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### MiniMax Code\n\n1. Run `mcode exec --cwd \u003crepo\u003e --output-format json --timeout 10m --max-steps 50` and check both the exit code and the JSON `status`\n2. Keep `--permission full` and `off` for a container or throwaway workspace. The default `smart` fails when it would need a person\n3. Set `MCODE_PROVIDER_API_KEY` and add a provider for BYOK. M Plan models need a browser sign-in with `mcode login --region global`\n4. Set `MINIMAX_DATA_DIR` per CI runner. Keys and sessions live in `~/.minimax` by default\n5. Pin a version. npm published 62 releases in nine weeks and the public source trails it\n\n### Prime Agent\n\n1. Run it in a disposable clone, container or VM. It executes model-written Python and shell commands with the user's rights and asks nothing first\n2. Set `PRIME_AGENT_TELEMETRY=0` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first run if usage metrics must not leave the machine\n3. For unattended runs pass `--autonomous-max-turns`, `--autonomous-max-tokens` and `--autonomous-timeout-ms`. Reaching a limit does not mean the task succeeded\n4. Headless use is `-p` with `--mode json` per the argument parser. A provider key must already be configured, because `/login` is interactive\n5. The `-t/--tools`, `-nt/--no-tools` and `-nbt/--no-builtin-tools` flags were removed and now fail as unknown options\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax Code or Prime Agent?\n\nMiniMax Code scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Prime Agent's 60.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are MiniMax Code and Prime Agent open source?\n\nYes. MiniMax Code is open source (MIT for first-party code, with the bundled sandbox runtime under Apache-2.0. The desktop app's source isn't published). Prime Agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-code\", \"b\": \"prime-agent\"}`. 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