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Head to head · Self-hosted personal assistants · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Atticus

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Atticus's 42.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Atticus leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do self-hosted personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#608 of 1098 AtticusSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) · Platform E42.9/100#977 of 1098

Which one, for what

AstrBot C

Best for Someone who wants one self-run bot answering on QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark or WeCom, in private or group chats, with scheduled tasks, a knowledge base and plugins.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 81 against 68
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 9
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 51

Watch for

No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking

Atticus E

Best for A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 49 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 56 against 40

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it

Watch for

No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotAtticusEdge
Reliability16%208168AstrBot +13
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26215AstrBot +47
Agent ergonomics13%16.2549AstrBot +45
Security & auth14%17.54449Atticus +5
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88151AstrBot +30
Transparency & trust7%8.84056Atticus +16
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 58.8/100E 42.9/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotAtticus
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreeYour plan
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterMIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-272026-10-14
Terms last updated2026-01-12no document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity42k stars163 stars
Agent reviewsnone1/5 (4)

Verdicts

AstrBot

Fourteen official messaging adapters, scheduled tasks and scoped API keys come in one AGPL-3.0 program with releases most weeks. No tool call asks for approval, no mail, calendar or long-term memory connector is built in, and usage statistics, including the machine's hostname, are sent by default.

Atticus

Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.

Before you call either

AstrBot

  1. Set ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1 before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default
  2. Set dashboard.host to 127.0.0.1 in data/cmd_config.json, or the DASHBOARD_HOST variable, unless remote access is intended. The default is 0.0.0.0
  3. Create an abk_ key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key
  4. Include username in every POST /api/v1/chat body. Without the chat:admin scope an administrator ID is rejected
  5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails

Atticus

  1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box
  2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac
  3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Atticus?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Atticus's 42.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Atticus leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Atticus open source?

Yes. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). Atticus is open source (MIT).

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