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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs OpenDuet

AstrBot scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenDuet leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C59/100#659 of 1238 OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238

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 42
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 37

Watch for

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

OpenDuet D

Best for A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 59 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 42

Watch for

No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotOpenDuetEdge
Reliability16%208142AstrBot +39
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26258AstrBot +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.25452AstrBot +2
Security & auth14%17.54459OpenDuet +15
Payments & pricing10%12.56030AstrBot +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88137AstrBot +44
Transparency & trust7%8.84268OpenDuet +26
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 59/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotOpenDuet
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorAstrBotDevsCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-27none
Terms last updated2026-01-12couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularity42k stars1.6k stars

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.

OpenDuet

Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

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

OpenDuet

  1. Follow the README's Quick start (bun install, bash scripts/start.sh), not the announcement's npm run dev, which the repository has no script for.
  2. Run bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts after copilotkit project select; the server reads INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, not the CPK_ key the CLI writes.
  3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in /settings/approvals if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
  4. To bring your own agent, register it as a remote-ag-ui Bot in agents.yaml; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
  5. Set COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or OpenDuet?

AstrBot scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenDuet leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and OpenDuet open source?

Yes. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement).

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