Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run
Haven vs ZeroClaw
ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.
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Which one, for what
Haven F
Best for A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.
Also in its favour
- No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for 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.
ZeroClaw BB
Best for One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 74 against 35
- Schema & documentation, 82 against 4
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 6
- Security & auth, 76 against 13
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 51
Also in its favour
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source
Watch for
The docs state that command execution is not audited. [security.audit] records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Haven | ZeroClaw | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 35 | 74 | ZeroClaw +39 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 4 | 82 | ZeroClaw +78 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 6 | 72 | ZeroClaw +66 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 13 | 76 | ZeroClaw +63 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 60 | ZeroClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 35 | 80 | ZeroClaw +45 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 51 | 64 | ZeroClaw +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| Total | F 22.2/100 | BB 70.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Haven | ZeroClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | ZeroClaw Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |
| 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 | 33k 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.
ZeroClaw
Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.
Before you call either
Haven
- Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
- Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
- Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
- Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
- Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.
ZeroClaw
- Keep
[risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised".fullruns every tool not listed inalways_ask, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too - Add sending and account tools such as
send_via,google_workspaceandhttp_requesttoalways_askso a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt - List senders in
[peer_groups.<name>] external_peers.["*"]accepts anyone on that channel - Set
[web_fetch].allowed_domainsand[http_request].allowed_domains. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress - Run one-shot tasks with
zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>". A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Haven or ZeroClaw?
ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.
Are Haven and ZeroClaw open source?
No open-source release is listed for Haven. ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).
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