# Asmi vs AstrBot

> AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Asmi's 33.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

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.

- Asmi: grade F, 33.3/100, rank #973 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asmi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asmi.json
- AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #585 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Asmi (F)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Asmi | AstrBot | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 81 | AstrBot +51 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 62 | AstrBot +42 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 54 | AstrBot +11 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 44 | Asmi +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | AstrBot +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 81 | AstrBot +78 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 40 | Asmi +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **58.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Asmi | AstrBot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | AstrBotDevs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-27 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-01-12 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 42k 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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-astrbot.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-astrbot.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asmi", "b": "astrbot"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare asmi astrbot`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asmi.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json

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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.