# Asmi vs NanoClaw > NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) to Asmi's 33.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw.md (~3,450 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. 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 - NanoClaw: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #229 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanoclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanoclaw.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. Also in its favour: - A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install - No incidents deducted, where NanoClaw loses 5 points for them Watch for: Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401). ### NanoClaw (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine, reachable from chat apps, with container isolation and scheduled tasks, and who is willing to keep a fork. Ahead on: - Reliability, 78 against 30 - Schema & documentation, 82 against 20 - Agent ergonomics, 70 against 43 - Security & auth, 74 against 49 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 78 against 3 - Transparency & trust, 65 against 51 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Free to start without a card - Open source Watch for: The Claude provider runs with `permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions'`, so shell, file and web tools run inside the container with no prompt ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Asmi | NanoClaw | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 78 | NanoClaw +48 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 82 | NanoClaw +62 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 70 | NanoClaw +27 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 74 | NanoClaw +25 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | NanoClaw +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 78 | NanoClaw +75 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 65 | NanoClaw +14 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | | | **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **68.3 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Asmi | NanoClaw | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | NanoCo, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) | | Transports | Streamable HTTP | | | Auth | OAuth | None | | Pricing | Freemium | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | MIT | | Tools exposed | 12 | none | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | yes | | Last release | none | 2026-10-09 | | Terms last updated | | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | | no document linked | | Customer content may train models | | | | Terms restrict automated access | | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | | | Terms or service can change without notice | | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | | | Popularity | none | 31k 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. **NanoClaw.** Each session runs in an unprivileged Docker container and API keys stay in a credential gateway on the host, so a manipulated agent cannot read them. Inside the container the agent runs with permission prompts off, network egress is open by default, and it can message any chat it is wired to without approval. ## 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. ### NanoClaw 1. Install with `git clone` and `bash nanoclaw.sh`. There is no registry package, and setup needs Docker, Node 22 or later and a Claude or Codex credential 2. Set `NANOCLAW_EGRESS_LOCKDOWN=true` before giving an agent credentials or an audience of strangers. The default leaves egress open 3. Put chats with different audiences in separate agent groups. Every session of a group shares one read-write workspace and memory tree 4. Turn on per-request approval for a secret in the gateway when its use should wait for a person. It is off unless configured 5. On OneCLI installs, move the gateway to 1.42.0 by the upgrade guide before updating to 2026.10.0. The updater stops until that is done ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or NanoClaw? NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Asmi and NanoClaw open source? No open-source release is listed for Asmi. NanoClaw is open source (MIT). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-nanoclaw.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asmi", "b": "nanoclaw"}`. 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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.