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Head to head · Self-hosted personal assistants · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Talorys

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on transparency & trust. Both do self-hosted personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#585 of 993 TalorysRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributors · Platform F28.9/100#976 of 993

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 41
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0
  • Security & auth, 44 against 8

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

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

Talorys F

Best for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 40

Watch for

No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotTalorysEdge
Reliability16%208141AstrBot +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2620AstrBot +62
Agent ergonomics13%16.2540AstrBot +54
Security & auth14%17.5448AstrBot +36
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88183Talorys +2
Transparency & trust7%8.84052Talorys +12
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 58.8/100F 28.9/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotTalorys
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributors
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterMIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-272026-10-12
Terms last updated2026-01-12no document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity42k stars978 npm/wk

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.

Talorys

Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

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

Talorys

  1. Run npx create-talorys@latest with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
  2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
  3. Update with npx create-talorys@latest update. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Talorys?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Talorys open source?

Yes. AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).

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Disclosure

Talorys 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.

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