mini-SWE-agentvsWarp
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
mini-SWE-agent
SWE-agent (Princeton and Stanford) · Terminal agent
#8OSS
Panel
6.90 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 5.5
- Cost
- 8.8
- Longevity
- 7.0
“One hundred lines of Python, which is fewer than most competitors spend on their pricing page.”
Warp
Warp · Terminal agent
#21OSSMCP
Panel
6.54 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 6.7
- Cost
- 5.5
- Longevity
- 7.2
“Scored 75.8 on SWE-bench Verified with a best-of-k wrapper, which is also how most of us get through code review.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | mini-SWE-agent | Warp |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local, sandbox | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | YesComputer Use environments bundle Chromium plus the Playwright CLI and can attach over CDP, so the agent navigates, clicks, fills forms and reads pages. |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | YesCloud runs execute in a containerized sandbox built from a Docker image with no access to the local machine; local interactive sessions are not sandboxed. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any via litellm | GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, open-weight models via Fireworks |
| Bring your own model | Yes | YesAny OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenRouter, LiteLLM, an internal gateway) plus BYO Anthropic, OpenAI or Google keys and custom routers. |
| Local models | Yes | YesOllama, LM Studio, vLLM and llama.cpp are supported through the custom inference endpoint, but only when exposed at a public URL via a tunnel, since localhost and private addresses are rejected. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | mixed |
| Starts at | n/a | $20/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| GitHub stars | 8,410 | 65,430 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | mini-SWE-agent | Warp | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 7.3 | Warp — Use Warp if you want an agent in the terminal you already open every morning, with a standalone CLI and cloud agents when you outgrow it, and read the credit table before you pick a plan. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.0 | mini-SWE-agent — There is no procedure for anything beyond a shell command, opening a pull request is tell the LM to figure it out, and without a sandbox flag every command lands on the host. |
| El Profesor | 8.0 | 6.0 | mini-SWE-agent — The reference harness for the SWE-bench bash-only leaderboard: one bash action per turn via subprocess.run, a linear history, no tool-calling API, and Gemini 3 Pro reported above 74% on Verified. |
| La Inversora | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 6.0 | Warp — SAML SSO and bring-your-own-key arrive at Business, $50 a seat with a 25-seat cap, so sixty engineers means Enterprise and a custom quote; approved with conditions. |
| El Hacker | 8.5 | 6.8 | mini-SWE-agent — MIT, any model through litellm, OpenRouter or Portkey including my local server, a YAML config, and source short enough to read before breakfast; the missing MCP client is the only gap. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.