# AstrBot vs Atticus

> AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Atticus's 42.9 (E) for self-hosted personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

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.

- AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #608 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json
- Atticus: grade E, 42.9/100, rank #977 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atticus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atticus.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 875 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### AstrBot (C)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | AstrBot | Atticus | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 68 | AstrBot +13 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 15 | AstrBot +47 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 9 | AstrBot +45 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 49 | Atticus +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 51 | AstrBot +30 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 56 | Atticus +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **42.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AstrBot | Atticus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | SaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Your plan |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 42k stars | 163 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (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).


## For agents

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

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