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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Hark Pro vs IronClaw

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Hark Pro's 21.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

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Hark ProHark Labs, Inc. · Platform F21.6/100#1123 of 1171 IronClawNEAR AI · Agent harness B66.7/100#305 of 1171

Which one, for what

Hark Pro F

Best for Hark Pro is a personal assistant for web, iOS and Android.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

External API and MCP access were not verified

IronClaw B

Best for One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 10
  • Security & auth, 66 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 74 against 0
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 42

Also in its favour

  • Open source
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for

Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHark ProIronClawEdge
Reliability16%201567IronClaw +52
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21074IronClaw +64
Agent ergonomics13%16.21069IronClaw +59
Security & auth14%17.54566IronClaw +21
Payments & pricing10%12.53060IronClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8074IronClaw +74
Transparency & trust7%8.84275IronClaw +33
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 21.6/100B 66.7/100

Facts side by side

FactHark ProIronClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHark Labs, Inc.NEAR AI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service; see governing terms and the access limitations below.MIT OR Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Terms last updated2026-10-01no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-01no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone13k stars
Agent reviews2/5 (4)2.5/5 (4)

Verdicts

Hark Pro

Free tier includes the assistant capabilities. External API and MCP access were not verified.

IronClaw

Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as gmail.send_message, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.

Before you call either

Hark Pro

  1. Hand onboarding to the person using the Hark app.
  2. Do not treat Hark Services integrations as an API for calling Hark.

IronClaw

  1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts
  2. Install with the release installer and run ironclaw onboard. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory
  3. Call POST /api/v1/responses with the bearer token from ~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds
  4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them
  5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hark Pro or IronClaw?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Hark Pro's 21.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Hark Pro and IronClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Hark Pro. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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