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

Gemini Spark F

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

CategoryWeight this runGemini SparkQwenPawEdge
Reliability16%201470QwenPaw +56
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21768QwenPaw +51
Agent ergonomics13%16.2967QwenPaw +58
Security & auth14%17.56060even
Payments & pricing10%12.51060QwenPaw +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.81773QwenPaw +56
Transparency & trust7%8.84956QwenPaw +7
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 24.5/100B 62.2/100

Facts side by side

FactGemini SparkQwenPaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorGoogle LLCAgentScope
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuthNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of ServiceApache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-05-192026-09-11
Terms last updated2026-07-30no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-24no document linked
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone36k 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

  1. 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
  2. Expect a confirmation request before sends, edits, purchases and web form submissions, and note that bulk changes to private Google Tasks run without one
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Treat every safety statement here as Google's own description. None was tested, and no message was sent to the service

QwenPaw

  1. Set QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true before qwenpaw init --defaults or qwenpaw app. Both send usage data without asking
  2. Set approval_level to STRICT or SMART in agent.json. The default AUTO runs every tool call no guard rule flags
  3. Set dm_policy and group_policy to allowlist with allow_from on each channel. Both default to open
  4. Set QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then
  5. Keep mail tools on ask for send_message, delete_message and delete_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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