# Asmi vs ZeroClaw

> ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) 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

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) 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
- ZeroClaw: grade BB, 70.2/100, rank #161 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroclaw.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 ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them

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

### ZeroClaw (BB)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 74 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 82 against 20
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 43
- Security & auth, 76 against 49
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 51

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: The docs state that command execution is not audited. `[security.audit]` records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Asmi | ZeroClaw | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 74 | ZeroClaw +44 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 82 | ZeroClaw +62 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 72 | ZeroClaw +29 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 76 | ZeroClaw +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | ZeroClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 80 | ZeroClaw +77 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 64 | ZeroClaw +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **70.2 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Asmi | ZeroClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | ZeroClaw Labs |
| 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 OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-05 |
| 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 | 33k 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.

**ZeroClaw.** Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.

## 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.

### ZeroClaw

1. Keep `[risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised"`. `full` runs every tool not listed in `always_ask`, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too
2. Add sending and account tools such as `send_via`, `google_workspace` and `http_request` to `always_ask` so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt
3. List senders in `[peer_groups.<name>] external_peers`. `["*"]` accepts anyone on that channel
4. Set `[web_fetch].allowed_domains` and `[http_request].allowed_domains`. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress
5. Run one-shot tasks with `zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>"`. A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or ZeroClaw?

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Asmi and ZeroClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).


## For agents

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