# AstrBot vs Skydive (slim)

> AstrBot scores 59 (C) to Skydive's 52.1 (D) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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AstrBot scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- AstrBot: C 59, rank #662 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.min.md
- Skydive: D 52.1, rank #899 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md
- AstrBot, 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 41; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35; Maintenance & community, 81 against 56. Also Open source.
- Skydive, good for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 62; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 54; Security & auth, 59 against 44; Transparency & trust, 75 against 42. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | AstrBot | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 81 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 62 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 42 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AstrBot | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 42k stars | 5.5k npm/wk |