# Asmi vs OpenClaw > OpenClaw scores 67.1 (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-openclaw - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.md (~3,450 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.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 OpenClaw scores 67.1 (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 - OpenClaw: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #270 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.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 OpenClaw loses 8 points for them Watch for: Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401). ### OpenClaw (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete. Ahead on: - Reliability, 75 against 30 - Schema & documentation, 84 against 20 - Agent ergonomics, 77 against 43 - Security & auth, 74 against 49 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 86 against 3 - Transparency & trust, 68 against 51 Also in its favour: - Open source Watch for: Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Asmi | OpenClaw | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 75 | OpenClaw +45 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 84 | OpenClaw +64 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 77 | OpenClaw +34 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 74 | OpenClaw +25 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | OpenClaw +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 86 | OpenClaw +83 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 68 | OpenClaw +17 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -8 | | | **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **67.1 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Asmi | OpenClaw | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | OpenClaw Foundation | | 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). | MIT | | Tools exposed | 12 | none | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | no | yes | | Last release | none | 2026-10-12 | | 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 | 392k 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. **OpenClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical. ## 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. ### OpenClaw 1. Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval 2. Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default 3. Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation 4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it 5. Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or OpenClaw? OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Asmi and OpenClaw open source? No open-source release is listed for Asmi. OpenClaw is open source (MIT). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asmi", "b": "openclaw"}`. 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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.