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

Asmi vs AstrBot

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#585 of 1010

Which one, for what

Asmi F

Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 49 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 51 against 40

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

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 30
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 3

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 runAsmiAstrBotEdge
Reliability16%203081AstrBot +51
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22062AstrBot +42
Agent ergonomics13%16.24354AstrBot +11
Security & auth14%17.54944Asmi +5
Payments & pricing10%12.53060AstrBot +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8381AstrBot +78
Transparency & trust7%8.85140Asmi +11
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 33.3/100C 58.8/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiAstrBot
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.AstrBotDevs
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).AGPL-3.0-or-later
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
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

Asmi

Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog 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

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

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, Asmi or AstrBot?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are Asmi and AstrBot open source?

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

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Disclosure

Asmi 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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