# Boba vs QwenPaw (slim)

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Boba's 10.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Boba: F 10.3, rank #1004 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.min.md
- QwenPaw: B 62.2, rank #454 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md
- Boba, good for Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them.
- QwenPaw, good for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 15; Schema & documentation, 68 against 0; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 0; Security & auth, 60 against 0; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 73 against 2; Transparency & trust, 56 against 39. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Boba | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 0 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 2 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 39 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Boba | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | AgentScope |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | none | 36k stars |