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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

asaply vs AstrBot

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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asaplyAsaply Inc. · Platform F7.6/100#1006 of 1010 AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#585 of 1010

Which one, for what

asaply F

Best for People in covered neighbourhoods who want coffee, lunch, tickets and rides handled by text.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

AstrBot C

Best for Someone who wants one self-run bot answering on QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark or WeCom, in private or group chats, with scheduled tasks, a knowledge base and plugins.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 81 against 10
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0
  • Security & auth, 44 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 2

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runasaplyAstrBotEdge
Reliability16%201081AstrBot +71
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21062AstrBot +52
Agent ergonomics13%16.2054AstrBot +54
Security & auth14%17.5044AstrBot +44
Payments & pricing10%12.5060AstrBot +60
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8281AstrBot +79
Transparency & trust7%8.84340asaply +3
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 7.6/100C 58.8/100

Facts side by side

FactasaplyAstrBot
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorAsaply Inc.AstrBotDevs
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).AGPL-3.0-or-later
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-09-27
Terms last updated2026-01-12
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone42k stars

Verdicts

asaply

asaply is a text-only errand assistant in early access that orders, books and pays through Apple Pay after showing the total, and can read and change a connected Google Calendar and Gmail. No outside agent can call it, the service fee isn't published, and no status page or security contact was found.

AstrBot

Fourteen official messaging adapters, scheduled tasks and scoped API keys come in one AGPL-3.0 program with releases most weeks. No tool call asks for approval, no mail, calendar or long-term memory connector is built in, and usage statistics, including the machine's hostname, are sent by default.

Before you call either

asaply

  1. Don't plan to call asaply from another agent. It answers only texts from the owner's phone number and group chats it joins.
  2. Tell the owner each errand adds an unpublished service fee to the order total.

AstrBot

  1. Set ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1 before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default
  2. Set dashboard.host to 127.0.0.1 in data/cmd_config.json, or the DASHBOARD_HOST variable, unless remote access is intended. The default is 0.0.0.0
  3. Create an abk_ key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key
  4. Include username in every POST /api/v1/chat body. Without the chat:admin scope an administrator ID is rejected
  5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, asaply or AstrBot?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are asaply and AstrBot open source?

No open-source release is listed for asaply. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later).

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Disclosure

asaply competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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