{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "astrbot", "name": "AstrBot", "vendor": "AstrBotDevs", "vendorUrl": "https://astrbot.app", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "AstrBot is an open-source chatbot and agent program that the owner runs and connects to messaging platforms such as QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark and WeCom, with scheduled tasks, MCP tools, plugins and a web admin panel.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json", "repo": "https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot", "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "astrbot" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "soulter/astrbot" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No account with the project. The web panel signs in with the user `astrbot` and a random initial password printed in the startup log, with optional TOTP and a login rate limit (https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/blob/master/docs/en/use/webui.md). Outside programs use `abk_` API keys created in Settings, OpenAPI, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-API-Key`, limited by 11 scopes and two sensitive sub-scopes and stored as PBKDF2 hashes (https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/blob/master/docs/en/dev/openapi.md). Messaging platform tokens and model provider keys are entered in the panel and kept in `data/cmd_config.json`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under AGPL-3.0 with nothing to buy. The EULA says the team sells no service and that a request for payment is a likely scam (https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/blob/master/EULA.md). The owner pays the model provider and any search or sandbox service, or nothing with a local model. The README links a paid third-party cloud host and several model resellers through referral links (checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI file or the source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 41800, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.astrbot.app", "openapi": "https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/blob/master/docs/public/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "python", "docker", "openapi", "agpl", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 584, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 60, "reliability": 81, "schema": 62, "security": 44, "transparency": 40 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2025-11-14. GHSA-4m32-cjv7-f425 (CVE-2025-55449, critical, 9.8), a hard-coded JWT signing key that let an unauthenticated attacker install a plugin and run commands on any reachable instance at 3.5.17 or earlier. Patched in 3.5.18 on 21 June 2025 and published five months later, inside the last 12 months. Fixed and documented, so the deduction decays to -2. https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/security/advisories/GHSA-4m32-cjv7-f425" ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Official adapters for 14 messaging platforms in the README table, among them QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, LINE, Lark, DingTalk and WeCom", "Agent shell, Python and file tools are off by default (`computer_use_runtime` is `none`) and limited to administrators when turned on", "HTTP API under `/api/v1` with a published OpenAPI file of 170 paths and API keys limited by 11 scopes, stored as PBKDF2 hashes", "About 15 tagged releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, each with a dated changelog file in English and Chinese", "Unit tests run on Linux, macOS and Windows, and the last master runs we saw on 12 October 2026 passed" ], "weaknesses": [ "No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking", "No built-in mail, calendar or file-account connector and no long-term memory of the owner. Both depend on third-party plugins or MCP servers", "Usage statistics are on by default and include the hostname and an installation ID, while the EULA says nothing personally identifiable is collected", "The web panel listens on 0.0.0.0 by default, and the repository has no SECURITY.md or security.txt", "No prompt-injection guidance found, although group messages, web pages and MCP results all reach the model" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1` before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default", "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", "Create an `abk_` key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-API-Key`", "Include `username` in every `POST /api/v1/chat` body. Without the `chat:admin` scope an administrator ID is rejected", "Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 60, "reliability": 81, "schema": 62, "security": 44, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 23 }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install astrbot --python 3.12 \u0026\u0026 astrbot init \u0026\u0026 astrbot run", "http": "curl -N 'http://localhost:6185/api/v1/chat' -H 'Authorization: Bearer abk_xxx' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"message\":\"Hello\",\"username\":\"alice\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/astrbot" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "astrbot.app", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/blob/master/EULA.md", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "No legal entity was found. The docs call AstrBot a non-profit project under the AstrBotDevs organisation, and the EULA speaks for the AstrBot Team.", "The EULA in the repository (last updated 12 January 2026) is the only terms document found. Its section 8 is the only privacy statement, so no privacy link is given.", "astrbot.app answers every path, robots.txt and `/.well-known/security.txt` included, with the same script-drawn page, so the site has no robots rules and no security.txt. docs.astrbot.app answers 404 for security.txt and llms.txt.", "GitHub says the project has not set up a SECURITY.md. A Report a vulnerability button is shown and two advisories are published.", "Usage statistics go to tickstats.soulter.top, a host outside the project's domain.", "The domain's registration date was not looked up." ], "score": 23 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.json" }, "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against AstrBot's 58.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AstrBot leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "ironclaw", "name": "IronClaw", "vendor": "NEAR AI", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ironclaw.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json", "repo": "https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw", "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`ironclaw onboard` writes a bearer token to `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token` and prints a login link that carries it as a `token` query parameter. The same token authorises the web interface and the Responses API with operator rights. Multi-user deployments can add Google or GitHub single sign-on and per-user API tokens with owner, admin or member roles. Connected accounts use OAuth (Google, Slack), a Telegram pairing code, or keys held in the encrypted secret store. The web interface binds to 127.0.0.1:3000 unless `--host` is changed (https://docs.ironclaw.com/using/webui.md).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free to self-host under MIT or Apache-2.0, with model usage billed by whichever provider the owner selects, or nothing with Ollama. NEAR AI sells hosted instances on ironclaw.com as Starter (shown as $5 beside $0 a month, 1 agent, $5 credits), Basic at $20 a month (2 agents, $20 credits) and Pro+ at $200 a month (5 agents, $200 credits). The page does not say whether a card is needed. NEAR AI Cloud inference is priced per million tokens on near.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the release notes (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12648, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.ironclaw.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.ironclaw.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "rust", "wasm", "telegram", "slack", "gmail", "mcp", "hosted-option", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 288, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 60, "reliability": 67, "schema": 74, "security": 66, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-12. The ironclaw.com home page lists Discord and Signal among integrations, while the channel docs for the current release say Discord, Signal, WeChat and WeCom are not part of the 1.0 release, which shipped on 27 July 2026. The docs site also says it documents the latest stable release while its heartbeat, cron, shell and WASM pages name settings absent from the 1.4.1 source. A misleading claim, at the minimum, -2. https://www.ironclaw.com/; https://docs.ironclaw.com/channels/overview.md; https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/ironclaw-v1.4.1/docs/capabilities/routines/heartbeat.mdx" ], "verdict": "Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as `gmail.send_message`, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.", "bestFor": "One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.", "strengths": [ "Dual MIT or Apache-2.0 licence, with installers for seven targets on GitHub releases and no account needed to run it", "Each extension tool declares a default permission, effects, network targets and OAuth scopes in `manifest.toml`. Gmail reads use `gmail.readonly` and sends use `gmail.send`", "Secrets are encrypted with AES-256-GCM per the README, with the master key in the OS keychain, and are injected into requests outside the sandbox", "No analytics library was found in the 1.4.1 source. Trace Commons is opt-in and has no default endpoint", "Six stable releases between 27 July and 29 September 2026, each with dated notes and upgrade steps" ], "weaknesses": [ "Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask", "The `main` branch has had no commit since 10 September 2026, and open reports filed since mid-September show no replies. 1,363 issues and 183 pull requests are open", "Docs pages for heartbeat, cron, shell and WASM limits name settings such as `HEARTBEAT_ENABLED` and `ALLOW_LOCAL_TOOLS` that do not appear in the 1.4.1 source", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or published GitHub advisory was found", "The home page lists Discord and Signal integrations, while the channel docs say both are not part of the 1.0 release" ], "agentNotes": [ "Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts", "Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory", "Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds", "Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them", "Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 60, "reliability": 67, "schema": 74, "security": 66, "transparency": 79 }, "provenanceScore": 71 }, "connect": { "install": "IRONCLAW_RELEASE_TAG=ironclaw-v1.4.1\ncurl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf \"https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/download/${IRONCLAW_RELEASE_TAG}/ironclaw-installer.sh\" | sh\nironclaw onboard" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ironclaw" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hosted Basic plan (2 agents, $20 credits)", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com" }, { "item": "Hosted Pro+ plan (5 agents, $200 credits)", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Jasnah, Inc. d/b/a NEAR AI", "domain": "ironclaw.com", "domainRegistered": "2018-01-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://near.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The NEAR AI terms of service (updated 24 September 2026) name Jasnah, Inc. d/b/a NEAR AI under Delaware law and cover NEAR AI Cloud and its API. They do not mention IronClaw or agent hosting, so no terms link is set and the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence stands in for the self-hosted software.", "The privacy policy (updated 4 September 2026) lists ironclaw.com, agent.near.ai, the IronClaw framework and IronHub among what it covers.", "The ironclaw.com home page says Built by Near Foundation and its footer says by NEAR AI.", "security.txt answered 404 on www.ironclaw.com, docs.ironclaw.com and near.ai.", "RDAP for ironclaw.com gives a registration date of 2018-01-04 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar, last changed 2026-04-20.", "A self-hosted instance answers on its owner's own host. Hosted instances answer at \u003cinstance-id\u003e.agents.near.ai per the quickstart." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "AstrBotDevs", "b": "NEAR AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "b": "MIT OR Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-27", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-01-12", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "42k stars", "b": "13k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against AstrBot's 58.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AstrBot leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or IronClaw?" }, { "answer": "Yes. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are AstrBot and IronClaw open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 81 against 67", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 74" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "astrbot", "watchFor": "No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 62", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 54", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 44", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 40" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.", "slug": "ironclaw", "watchFor": "Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask" } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "AstrBot vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gaia.json", "title": "AstrBot vs GAIA", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-haven.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Haven", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "AstrBot vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "GAIA vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Lindy", 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"key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "astrbot": 54, "by": 15, "edge": "ironclaw", "ironclaw": 69, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "astrbot": 44, "by": 22, "edge": "ironclaw", "ironclaw": 66, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "astrbot": 60, "by": 0, "edge": "", "ironclaw": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "astrbot": 81, "by": 7, "edge": "astrbot", "ironclaw": 74, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "astrbot": 40, "by": 35, "edge": "ironclaw", "ironclaw": 75, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against AstrBot's 58.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AstrBot leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistant proactive.", "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.", "ironclaw": "Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as `gmail.send_message`, run unprompted until the owner turns it off." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.min.md" }, "markdown": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against AstrBot's 58.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AstrBot leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #584 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json\n- IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #288 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AstrBot (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 81 against 67\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 74\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking\n\n### IronClaw (B)\n\nGood for: One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 62\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 54\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 44\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 40\n\nWatch for: Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AstrBot | IronClaw | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 67 | AstrBot +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 74 | IronClaw +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 69 | IronClaw +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 66 | IronClaw +22 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 74 | AstrBot +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 75 | IronClaw +35 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AstrBot | IronClaw |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | NEAR AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 42k stars | 13k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**IronClaw.** Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as `gmail.send_message`, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AstrBot\n\n1. Set `ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1` before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default\n2. 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\n3. Create an `abk_` key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-API-Key`\n4. Include `username` in every `POST /api/v1/chat` body. Without the `chat:admin` scope an administrator ID is rejected\n5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails\n\n### IronClaw\n\n1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts\n2. Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory\n3. Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds\n4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them\n5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or IronClaw?\n\nIronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against AstrBot's 58.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AstrBot leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Are AstrBot and IronClaw open source?\n\nYes. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"astrbot\", \"b\": \"ironclaw\"}`. 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