# AstrBot vs Talorys

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

- 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
- Talorys: grade F, 28.9/100, rank #976 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | AstrBot | Talorys | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 41 | AstrBot +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 0 | AstrBot +62 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 0 | AstrBot +54 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 8 | AstrBot +36 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 83 | Talorys +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 52 | Talorys +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **28.9 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AstrBot | Talorys |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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 | 978 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.).


## For agents

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

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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.