# Asmi vs QwenPaw > QwenPaw scores 62.2 (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-qwenpaw - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.md (~3,450 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.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 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. - 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 - QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #454 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.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 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) Good 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 | Category | Weight | Asmi | QwenPaw | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 70 | QwenPaw +40 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 68 | QwenPaw +48 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 67 | QwenPaw +24 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 60 | QwenPaw +11 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | QwenPaw +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 73 | QwenPaw +70 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 56 | QwenPaw +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **62.2 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Asmi | QwenPaw | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | AgentScope | | Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) | | Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio | | 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). | Apache-2.0 | | Tools exposed | 12 | none | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | none | 2026-09-11 | | 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 | 36k 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). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asmi", "b": "qwenpaw"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare asmi qwenpaw` - Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asmi.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json ## Other comparisons with Asmi or QwenPaw - [asaply vs Asmi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-asmi.md) - [asaply vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-qwenpaw.md) - [Asmi vs AstrBot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-astrbot.md) - [Asmi vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-boba.md) - [Asmi vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-boski.md) - [Asmi vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-brea.md) - [Asmi vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-caddy-app.md) - [Asmi vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-cowagent.md) - [Asmi vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-del.md) - [Asmi vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-folk-nozomio.md) - 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[Asmi vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-gemini-spark.md) - [Asmi vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-leon.md) - [Asmi vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-talorys.md) - [Asmi vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-wajo.md) - [QwenPaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-talorys.md) ## 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.