# AstrBot vs Natura tinyNature

> AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Natura tinyNature's 15.1 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Natura tinyNature's 15.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Natura tinyNature leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

- AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #585 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json
- Natura tinyNature: grade F, 15.1/100, rank #987 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/natura.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/natura.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 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 15
- Schema & documentation, 62 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0
- Security & auth, 44 against 10
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 4

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

### Natura tinyNature (F)

Good for: People who want briefings, reminders and email triage by message or voice through earbuds.

Ahead on:
- Transparency & trust, 53 against 40

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | AstrBot | Natura tinyNature | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 15 | AstrBot +66 |
| 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 | 10 | AstrBot +34 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | AstrBot +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 4 | AstrBot +77 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 53 | Natura tinyNature +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **15.1 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AstrBot | Natura tinyNature |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | Natura Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed service under Natura's Terms of Service (Natura Inc., last updated 30 May 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 |  |
| 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.

**Natura tinyNature.** tinyNature is Natura's hosted personal agent, reached by message today or by voice through $149 HumanPods earbuds, with a published retention table and subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or dated release was found.

## 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

### Natura tinyNature

1. Don't plan to call tinyNature from another agent. @tinyNatureBot on Telegram is a chat for the owner, not an API.
2. Send security reports to ops@natura.inc. The security.txt the site links returns 404.
3. Check that tinyNature works on the owner's platform before they order HumanPods, as the HumanPods FAQ advises.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Natura tinyNature?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Natura tinyNature's 15.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Natura tinyNature leads on transparency & trust.

### Are AstrBot and Natura tinyNature open source?

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


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Natura tinyNature competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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.