{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cowagent", "name": "CowAgent", "vendor": "zhayujie", "vendorUrl": "https://cowagent.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "CowAgent is an open-source AI assistant that its owner runs on a computer or server. It plans tasks, runs tools and skills, keeps long-term memory in local files and answers on a web console and messaging apps.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "zhayujie/chatgpt-on-wechat" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No account. The web console listens on 127.0.0.1 with no password by default, and `web_password` adds a login whose session lasts 30 days. `external_api_token` is one Bearer token for the OpenAI-compatible endpoint, which stays off while the token is empty (https://docs.cowagent.ai/channels/web). Messaging channels use each platform's bot token or app secret in `config.json`. Model keys go in `config.json` or environment variables.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy to run it. The owner pays the configured model provider, or nothing with a local model behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The README names LinkAI as a seller of managed hosting, and link-ai.tech did not answer on 12 October 2026, so its prices were not read.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 47400, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/intro/index", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client", "assistant.accounts" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "llms-txt", "docker", "python", "openai-compatible" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 592, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 67, "security": 43, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-07-31. Issue #2998 reports that a member of a Feishu group asked the bot for local files and it sent the owner's documents into the group. This is the reporter's account and we did not reproduce it. We confirmed in the master source on 12 October 2026 that group channels accept every group, that full-access is the default and that the proposed sender gating is absent. Open and unfixed, -3. https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent/issues/2998", "2026-07-29. Version 2.1.5 fixed a chain in which injected content led the agent to rewrite the MCP config, run arbitrary commands and take keys, and fixed the `edit` tool reaching `~/.cow/.env`. Both are described in the release notes with no advisory. Fixed and documented, -2. https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/v2.1.5" ], "verdict": "MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.", "bestFor": "One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.", "strengths": [ "Memory is plain Markdown under `~/cow` (`MEMORY.md`, `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`), readable and removable by the owner", "Three permission modes per session (read-only, workspace-write, full-access), with a global default in `agent_permission_mode`", "The web console binds to 127.0.0.1 by default, and the cloud client loads only when `use_linkai` and a deployment id are both set", "Seven tagged releases between 20 July and 30 September 2026, each with dated notes in the docs", "Tests run on Python 3.11 and 3.13 for every push to master, and the 15 newest master runs we saw passed on 12 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call", "The permission checks read arguments and are not an OS sandbox, as the source says. The `bash` blocklist covers only root deletion, disk wiping and power commands", "Issue #2998, open since 31 July 2026, reports the bot sending the owner's local documents into a Feishu group. Its fix is not on master", "No setting limits which Telegram, Slack or Discord users may message the bot, and those channels reply in every group", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, privacy policy or terms. Model keys sit in `config.json` and MCP keys in `mcp.json` as plain text" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `agent_permission_mode` to `workspace-write` or `read-only` before connecting any channel. Source and Docker installs default to `full-access`", "Keep the bot out of group chats that include other people. Any member who mentions it reaches the same tools as the owner", "Set `web_password` before changing `web_host` to `0.0.0.0`. The password is empty by default", "Set `external_api_token` to enable `POST /v1/chat/completions`, and send `conversation_id` to keep one session. The `model` field does not select a model", "Run it in a container for a hard boundary. The docs and the source both say the permission modes are not isolation" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 67, "security": 43, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "bash \u003c(curl -fsSL https://cdn.link-ai.tech/code/cow/run.sh) # or: curl -O https://cdn.link-ai.tech/code/cow/docker-compose.yml \u0026\u0026 docker compose up -d", "http": "curl http://localhost:9899/v1/chat/completions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"model\":\"cowagent\",\"conversation_id\":\"example-conversation\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cowagent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "cowagent.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "No company or legal entity is named for CowAgent. The licence names zhayujie, and the cowagent.ai footer reads Copyright 2026 CowAgent.", "The README lists sales@simple-future.tech and LinkAI (link-ai.tech) for enterprise services and managed hosting. link-ai.tech did not answer our robots.txt request on 12 October 2026, so none of its pages were read.", "cowagent.ai links no terms and no privacy policy. Its sitemap lists the home, download and blog pages only.", "cowagent.ai answers `/.well-known/security.txt` and `/llms.txt` with the home page, so neither file exists. docs.cowagent.ai serves an llms.txt.", "The registration date of cowagent.ai was not looked up." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.json", "live": { "slug": "cowagent", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "zhayujie/CowAgent", "version": "2.2.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T22:51:12.997000915Z" } ], "githubStars": 47384, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cowagent.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:46:06.445043921Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:11:19.298641829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/overview", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:14:33.661628287Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:14:33.661628287Z", "fingerprint": "5a53929583ea" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T22:51:12.997000915Z" } }, "answer": "CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "hirealpha", "name": "HireAlpha", "vendor": "HireAlpha", "vendorUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "HireAlpha sells three AI personas, Friend, Coworker and Cofounder, each a separate iMessage or SMS contact with its own number and memory. They read connected Google mail and calendar and track health, work and company tasks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public", "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The public API (product info, personas, waitlist sign-up) needs no authentication and is limited to 60 requests a minute per IP. The per-user API behind the web app and iMessage bots needs the user's own session token and is not open to third parties (https://hirealpha.chat/developers). People connect their own Google account (https://hirealpha.chat).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "\"Each persona is $19 a month\", or all three for $39 a month \"when Coworker and Cofounder ship\", with a 7-day free trial. An annual single hire is $190. The FAQ also says the Friend hire costs $5 a month for the first two months (https://hirealpha.chat/faq, checked 14 October 2026). No free tier.", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on hirealpha.chat, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers", "llmsTxt": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "calendar.read", "memory.user", "tasks.create" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "waitlist", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "HireAlpha 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 8.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1005, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 39, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 20, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 24 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.", "bestFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.", "disclosure": "HireAlpha 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.", "strengths": [ "Public prices, $19 a month a persona and $190 a year for one.", "The privacy page rules out training shared models and deletes data within 30 days of account deletion.", "Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ.", "Every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown." ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.", "Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped, and the home page starts from a waitlist.", "The public API covers product metadata and waitlist sign-up only. Nothing acts for a user.", "No changelog, status page or security contact found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.", "Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.", "Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 8.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 20, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 22 }, "provenanceScore": 25 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://hirealpha.chat/api/public/info" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hirealpha" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "HireAlpha persona", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "Per persona, 7-day trial. $190 a year for one." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "hirealpha.chat", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The sitemap lists /terms but it returns 404. No legal entity is named on any page read.", "hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-08-12 for hirealpha.chat." ], "score": 25 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.json", "live": { "slug": "hirealpha", "probe": { "target": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:36:42.185302648Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 346, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 389, "p95ms24h": 493, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 4, "ok": 4 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:36:42.185302648Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "zhayujie", "b": "HireAlpha", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "47k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, CowAgent or HireAlpha?" }, { "answer": "CowAgent is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha.", "question": "Are CowAgent and HireAlpha open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 84 against 10", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 10", "Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 2", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 45 against 24" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.", "slug": "cowagent", "watchFor": "Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where CowAgent loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.", "slug": "hirealpha", "watchFor": "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.messaging", "name": "Assistants reached by message" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "asaply vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.json", "title": "asaply vs HireAlpha", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "Asmi vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.json", "title": "Asmi vs HireAlpha", "url": 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-poke.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "AstrBot vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "Boski vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-cowagent.json", "title": "Caddy vs CowAgent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-cowagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-folk-nozomio.json", "title": "CowAgent vs folk", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-folk-nozomio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gaia.json", "title": "CowAgent vs GAIA", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-haven.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "CowAgent vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-natura.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs HireAlpha", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 74, "cowagent": 84, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 10, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 57, "cowagent": 67, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 10, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 59, "cowagent": 59, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 0, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 43, "cowagent": 43, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 0, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "cowagent": 60, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 81, "cowagent": 83, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 2, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 21, "cowagent": 45, "edge": "cowagent", "hirealpha": 24, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.", "verdicts": { "cowagent": "MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.", "hirealpha": "HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.min.md" }, "markdown": "CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- CowAgent: grade C, 58.5/100, rank #592 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json\n- HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### CowAgent (C)\n\nGood for: One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 84 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 45 against 24\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call\n\n### HireAlpha (F)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where CowAgent loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CowAgent | HireAlpha | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 84 | 10 | CowAgent +74 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 10 | CowAgent +57 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 0 | CowAgent +59 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 0 | CowAgent +43 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | CowAgent +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 2 | CowAgent +81 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 24 | CowAgent +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.5 · C** | **8.4 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CowAgent | HireAlpha |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |\n| Vendor | zhayujie | HireAlpha |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 47k stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CowAgent.** MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.\n\n**HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CowAgent\n\n1. Set `agent_permission_mode` to `workspace-write` or `read-only` before connecting any channel. Source and Docker installs default to `full-access`\n2. Keep the bot out of group chats that include other people. Any member who mentions it reaches the same tools as the owner\n3. Set `web_password` before changing `web_host` to `0.0.0.0`. The password is empty by default\n4. Set `external_api_token` to enable `POST /v1/chat/completions`, and send `conversation_id` to keep one session. The `model` field does not select a model\n5. Run it in a container for a hard boundary. The docs and the source both say the permission modes are not isolation\n\n### HireAlpha\n\n1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.\n2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.\n3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CowAgent or HireAlpha?\n\nCowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are CowAgent and HireAlpha open source?\n\nCowAgent is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cowagent\", \"b\": \"hirealpha\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cowagent hirealpha`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json\n\n## Other comparisons with CowAgent or HireAlpha\n\n- [asaply vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [asaply vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Asmi vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Asmi vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [AstrBot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boski vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Brea vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Caddy vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-del.md)\n- [CowAgent vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-orbits.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [CowAgent vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-szn.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Del vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [folk vs 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Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [AstrBot vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Boski vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Caddy vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [CowAgent vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-folk-nozomio.md)\n- [CowAgent vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gaia.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gemini-spark.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-haven.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [CowAgent vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [CowAgent vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [CowAgent vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [CowAgent vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke.md)\n- [CowAgent vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.md)\n- [CowAgent vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-natura.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- HireAlpha competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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