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

AstrBot vs Tasker AI

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tasker AI leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#641 of 1190 Tasker AIDAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) · Platform F7.6/100#1184 of 1190

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 15
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0
  • Security & auth, 44 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 2

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

Tasker AI F

Best for A person or small team who wants an assistant in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or email that runs recurring tasks across connected apps.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 45 against 40

Watch for

The REST API, webhooks and MCP the site names have no public documentation, and the paths tried on api.tasker.ai answered 404.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotTasker AIEdge
Reliability16%208115AstrBot +66
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2620AstrBot +62
Agent ergonomics13%16.2540AstrBot +54
Security & auth14%17.5440AstrBot +44
Payments & pricing10%12.56020AstrBot +40
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8812AstrBot +79
Transparency & trust7%8.84045Tasker AI +5
Negative events≤15-2-2
TotalC 58.8/100F 7.6/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotTasker AI
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsDAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterClosed service under the Master Service Agreement of DAPI, Inc. doing business as Tasker AI, last updated 21 June 2026. The site says Tasker is open source; no public repository was found.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-27none
Terms last updated2026-01-12
Privacy policy last updatedno 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 starsnone
Agent reviewsnone1.5/5 (4)

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.

Tasker AI

Tasker AI is a freemium hosted assistant reached in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and email, with public plan prices from US$0. Its API, MCP and open-source claims couldn't be confirmed on 21 October 2026. No API documentation was found, and the npm package its API page tells developers to install doesn't exist.

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

Tasker AI

  1. Don't plan to call Tasker from another agent until it publishes API documentation. GET api.tasker.ai/v1/tasks returned 404.
  2. Don't run npx create-tasker@latest. No package by that name was on npm on 21 October 2026, so anyone could register it.
  3. Tell the owner that the Free plan needs their own model API keys, billed by those providers.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Tasker AI?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tasker AI leads on transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Tasker AI open source?

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

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Disclosure

Tasker AI 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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