Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run
Gemini Spark vs QwenPaw
QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistant proactive.
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Which one, for what
Best for A person who already keeps mail, calendar and files in a personal Google Account and accepts Keep Activity being on.
Also in its favour
- No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them
Watch for
No public API, SDK or MCP server for an outside agent was found. Spark is reached in the Gemini mobile app, the Mac app and gemini.google.com
QwenPaw B
Best 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 14
- Schema & documentation, 68 against 17
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 9
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 73 against 17
- Transparency & trust, 56 against 49
Also in its favour
- No key needed to call it
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source
Watch for
Usage data is on by default, qwenpaw init --defaults accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Gemini Spark | QwenPaw | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 14 | 70 | QwenPaw +56 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 17 | 68 | QwenPaw +51 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 9 | 67 | QwenPaw +58 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 10 | 60 | QwenPaw +50 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 17 | 73 | QwenPaw +56 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 49 | 56 | QwenPaw +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| Total | F 24.5/100 | B 62.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Gemini Spark | QwenPaw |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Google LLC | AgentScope |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of Service | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-05-19 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |
| 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 | none | 36k stars |
Verdicts
Gemini Spark
Google's help pages state what Spark confirms before doing, how to delete its remote browser and code data, and the risks of prompt injection. Spark has no public API, Google calls it experimental, and it runs only with Keep Activity on, the setting under which chats are used for model training and human review.
QwenPaw
Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.
Before you call either
Gemini Spark
- Do not plan an integration against Spark. No public API or MCP server was found, and a person must hold a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription
- Expect a confirmation request before sends, edits, purchases and web form submissions, and note that bulk changes to private Google Tasks run without one
- Delete remote browser data and remote code execution data in Gemini Spark Settings after a sensitive session. Deleting a task thread or Gemini Apps activity does not remove them
- Keep within 15 running tasks and 50 active schedules. A schedule does not run when 15 tasks are running or the usage limit is reached
- Treat every safety statement here as Google's own description. None was tested, and no message was sent to the service
QwenPaw
- Set
QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=truebeforeqwenpaw init --defaultsorqwenpaw app. Both send usage data without asking - Set
approval_leveltoSTRICTorSMARTinagent.json. The defaultAUTOruns every tool call no guard rule flags - Set
dm_policyandgroup_policytoallowlistwithallow_fromon each channel. Both default toopen - Set
QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=truebefore binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then - Keep mail tools on
askforsend_message,delete_messageanddelete_thread, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Spark or QwenPaw?
QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.
Are Gemini Spark and QwenPaw open source?
No open-source release is listed for Gemini Spark. QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0).
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