# AstrBot vs HireAlpha > AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.md (~3,500 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.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 AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #585 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json - HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.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 ### 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 10 - Schema & documentation, 62 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0 - Security & auth, 44 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 81 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 40 against 24 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 ### HireAlpha (F) Good for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies. Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install Watch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | AstrBot | HireAlpha | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 10 | AstrBot +71 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 10 | AstrBot +52 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 0 | AstrBot +54 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 0 | AstrBot +44 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | AstrBot +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 2 | AstrBot +79 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 24 | AstrBot +16 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **8.4 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | AstrBot | HireAlpha | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | AstrBotDevs | HireAlpha | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | None | | Pricing | Free | Paid | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | yes | | Last release | 2026-09-27 | none | | Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | 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 | none | ## 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. **HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity. ## 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 ### HireAlpha 1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties. 2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP. 3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or HireAlpha? AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are AstrBot and HireAlpha open source? AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "astrbot", "b": "hirealpha"}`. 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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.