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Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Grok Bot

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistant proactive.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#584 of 986 Grok BotSpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) · Platform E45.2/100#893 of 986

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 40
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 40
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 20

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

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

Grok Bot E

Best for A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 68 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 66 against 40

Watch for

All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotGrok BotEdge
Reliability16%208140AstrBot +41
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26240AstrBot +22
Agent ergonomics13%16.25450AstrBot +4
Security & auth14%17.54468Grok Bot +24
Payments & pricing10%12.56025AstrBot +35
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88120AstrBot +61
Transparency & trust7%8.84066Grok Bot +26
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 58.8/100E 45.2/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotGrok Bot
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsSpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterProprietary
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-27none
Terms last updated2026-01-122026-09-03
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity42k starsnone

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.

Grok Bot

Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.

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

Grok Bot

  1. State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules
  2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match
  3. Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials
  4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools
  5. To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Grok Bot?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Grok Bot open source?

AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Grok Bot.

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