# Claude Duet vs Wajo (Fo)

> Wajo scores 43.9 (E) to Claude Duet's 17.9 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-wajo
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-wajo.md (~3,950 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-wajo.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-wajo.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: 2026-10-25

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Claude Duet: grade F, 17.9/100, rank #1162 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-duet.json
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #1043 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1051 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Claude Duet (F)

Good for: A US Pro or Max subscriber who runs work or a small business through connected apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto and HubSpot and wants a morning brief and approved actions.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 37 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 72 against 47

Watch for: No API, MCP server, A2A endpoint or connector lets an outside agent send Duet a task or read its results

### Wajo (Fo) (E)

Good for: An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 30 against 15
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 0
- Security & auth, 38 against 14
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5

Watch for: No status page, changelog or security contact found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Claude Duet | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 30 | Wajo (Fo) +15 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 74 | Wajo (Fo) +64 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 68 | Wajo (Fo) +68 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 38 | Wajo (Fo) +24 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Wajo (Fo) +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 37 | 3 | Claude Duet +34 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 47 | Claude Duet +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **17.9 · F** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Claude Duet | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Anthropic, PBC | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service. No Claude Duet terms were found. It runs on a Claude account, and Anthropic's Consumer Terms of Service (Anthropic, PBC, effective 8 October 2025) cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro and other products for individuals with their associated apps. | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | none |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Claude Duet.** Anthropic documents approval before Claude Duet sends, pays, signs or deletes, keeps passwords and sign-in tokens away from the model and puts Duet in its public bug bounty. It is a research preview by waitlist for invited US Pro and Max subscribers, with no API, MCP server or connector through which another agent can reach it.

**Wajo (Fo).** Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## Before you call either

### Claude Duet

1. Don't plan an integration against Claude Duet. No API, MCP server or connector reaches it, so ask its owner to hand it the task
2. Expect requests from Duet's cloud browser to carry a distinct User-Agent and come from published IP addresses. The string and the list weren't found on the pages read
3. Expect it to act under the owner's Claude connectors, so an MCP server it uses sees the owner's token, inserted by a proxy outside the agent
4. Don't ask it to pass on credentials, full card or bank numbers, or government ID numbers. Its classifier blocks them even when the owner asks
5. Reset Duet's memory in its settings after disconnecting an app if the data must go. Disconnecting stops new access only

### Wajo (Fo)

1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Claude Duet or Wajo (Fo)?

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

## Other comparisons with Claude Duet or Wajo (Fo)

- [AstrBot vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Boski vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Caddy vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Claude Duet vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-cowagent.md)
- [Claude Duet vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-folk-nozomio.md)
- [Claude Duet vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-gaia.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-gemini-spark.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-grok-bot.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-haven.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-instinct.md)
- [Claude Duet vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-ironclaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-leon.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-lindy.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Lobby](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-lobby-os.md)
- [Claude Duet vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-nanobot.md)
- [Claude Duet vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-nanoclaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.md)
- [Claude Duet vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openclaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-picoclaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-poke.md)
- [Claude Duet vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-qwenpaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Tasker AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-tasker-ai.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-town.md)
- [Claude Duet vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-zeroclaw.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-zo-computer.md)
- [asaply vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [asaply vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-wajo.md)
- [Brea vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Brea vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-wajo.md)
- [Caddy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-wajo.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-del.md)
- [Claude Duet vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-hirealpha.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-natura.md)
- [Claude Duet vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openinstinct.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-orbits.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-orchid-ai.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-pally.md)
- [Claude Duet vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-szn.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-tomo.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-zapia.md)
- [CowAgent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo.md)
- [Del vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-wajo.md)
- [folk vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-wajo.md)
- [GAIA vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-wajo.md)
- [Gemini Spark vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-wajo.md)
- [Grok Bot vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-wajo.md)
- [Haven vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-wajo.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.md)
- [HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.md)
- [Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.md)
- [IronClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Leon vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-wajo.md)
- [Lindy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-wajo.md)
- [Lobby vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-wajo.md)
- [nanobot vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-wajo.md)
- [NanoClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Natura tinyNature vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-wajo.md)
- [Dots vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-wajo.md)
- [OpenClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [OpenInstinct vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-wajo.md)
- [Orbits vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-wajo.md)
- [Orchid vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-wajo.md)
- [Pally vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-wajo.md)
- [Poke vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-wajo.md)
- [QwenPaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [szn vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-wajo.md)
- [Tasker AI vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tasker-ai-vs-wajo.md)
- [Tomo vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-wajo.md)
- [Town vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.md)
- [Wajo (Fo) vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zapia.md)
- [Wajo (Fo) vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zeroclaw.md)
- [Wajo (Fo) vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zo-computer.md)
- [Asmi vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Asmi vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-wajo.md)
- [Atticus vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Atticus vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-wajo.md)
- [Boba vs Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-claude-duet.md)
- [Boba vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo.md)
- [Boski vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-wajo.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Hark Pro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-hark-pro.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-tab-bot.md)
- [Claude Duet vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-talorys.md)
- [Hark Pro vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-wajo.md)
- [PicoClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Tab vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-wajo.md)
- [Talorys vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-wajo.md)

## Disclosure

- Claude Duet competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. 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. All three run on Claude, and every review of it carries a conflict label.
- Wajo (Fo) 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.

---

Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp
