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

Asmi vs QwenPaw

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 QwenPawAgentScope · Agent harness B62.2/100#454 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.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for

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

QwenPaw B

Best for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 68 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 43
  • Security & auth, 60 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 73 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 56 against 51

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Usage data is on by default, qwenpaw init --defaults accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiQwenPawEdge
Reliability16%203070QwenPaw +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22068QwenPaw +48
Agent ergonomics13%16.24367QwenPaw +24
Security & auth14%17.54960QwenPaw +11
Payments & pricing10%12.53060QwenPaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8373QwenPaw +70
Transparency & trust7%8.85156QwenPaw +5
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 33.3/100B 62.2/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiQwenPaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.AgentScope
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuthNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).Apache-2.0
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2026-09-11
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno 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
Popularitynone36k 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.

QwenPaw

Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.

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.

QwenPaw

  1. Set QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true before qwenpaw init --defaults or qwenpaw app. Both send usage data without asking
  2. Set approval_level to STRICT or SMART in agent.json. The default AUTO runs every tool call no guard rule flags
  3. Set dm_policy and group_policy to allowlist with allow_from on each channel. Both default to open
  4. Set QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then
  5. Keep mail tools on ask for send_message, delete_message and delete_thread, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or QwenPaw?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Asmi and QwenPaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0).

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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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