# AstrBot vs Zapia

> AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Zapia's 17.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

- AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #585 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json
- Zapia: grade F, 17.3/100, rank #995 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zapia.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 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 3
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 56

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

### Zapia (F)

Good for: Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app.

Ahead on:
- Transparency & trust, 59 against 40

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | AstrBot | Zapia | 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 | 3 | AstrBot +41 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | AstrBot +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 56 | AstrBot +25 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 59 | Zapia +19 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **17.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AstrBot | Zapia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | Brainlogic AI S.A.S. |
| 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 Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-12 |
| 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 |

## 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.

**Zapia.** Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location was found.

## 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

### Zapia

1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access.
2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Zapia?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on transparency & trust.

### Are AstrBot and Zapia open source?

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


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Zapia 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.