# AstrBot vs Tasker AI > AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Tasker AI's 7.6 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,700 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-21 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. - AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #642 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json - Tasker AI: grade F, 7.6/100, rank #1191 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tasker-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tasker-ai.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1006 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 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) Good 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 | Category | Weight | AstrBot | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 15 | AstrBot +66 | | 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 | 0 | AstrBot +44 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | AstrBot +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 2 | AstrBot +79 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 45 | Tasker AI +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | AstrBot | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | AstrBotDevs | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed 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 documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | 2026-09-27 | none | | Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | | | Privacy policy last updated | 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 | none | | Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (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. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tasker-ai.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "astrbot", "b": "tasker-ai"}`. 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