# GAIA vs QwenPaw (slim)

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to GAIA's 49.5 (D) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against GAIA's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. GAIA leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistant proactive.

- GAIA: D 49.5, rank #813 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.min.md
- QwenPaw: B 62.2, rank #454 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md
- GAIA, good for It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 78 against 73.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 68 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 54; Security & auth, 60 against 54; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | GAIA | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | GAIA | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | The Experience Company | AgentScope |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-07 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 308 stars | 36k stars |