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

asaply vs IronClaw

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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asaplyAsaply Inc. · Platform F7.6/100#1006 of 1010 IronClawNEAR AI · Agent harness B66.7/100#288 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.

IronClaw B

Best for One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 10
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0
  • Security & auth, 66 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 74 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 43

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runasaplyIronClawEdge
Reliability16%201067IronClaw +57
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21074IronClaw +64
Agent ergonomics13%16.2069IronClaw +69
Security & auth14%17.5066IronClaw +66
Payments & pricing10%12.5060IronClaw +60
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8274IronClaw +72
Transparency & trust7%8.84375IronClaw +32
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 7.6/100B 66.7/100

Facts side by side

FactasaplyIronClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorAsaply Inc.NEAR AI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).MIT OR Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone13k 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.

IronClaw

Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as gmail.send_message, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.

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.

IronClaw

  1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts
  2. Install with the release installer and run ironclaw onboard. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory
  3. Call POST /api/v1/responses with the bearer token from ~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds
  4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them
  5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, asaply or IronClaw?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are asaply and IronClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for asaply. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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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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