# Haven vs IronClaw

> IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to Haven's 22.2 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.

- Haven: grade F, 22.2/100, rank #977 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json
- IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #288 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Haven (F)

Good for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Watch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

### IronClaw (B)

Good 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 35
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 4
- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 6
- Security & auth, 66 against 13
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 74 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 51

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

| Category | Weight | Haven | IronClaw | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 67 | IronClaw +32 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 74 | IronClaw +70 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 69 | IronClaw +63 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 66 | IronClaw +53 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | IronClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 74 | IronClaw +39 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 75 | IronClaw +24 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **22.2 · F** | **66.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Haven | IronClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | NEAR AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| 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 | 13k stars |

## Verdicts

**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

**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

### Haven

1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

### 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, Haven or IronClaw?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Haven and IronClaw open source?

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


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "haven", "b": "ironclaw"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare haven ironclaw`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json

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