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      "slug": "hirealpha",
      "name": "HireAlpha",
      "vendor": "HireAlpha",
      "vendorUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "HireAlpha sells three AI personas, Friend, Coworker and Cofounder, each a separate iMessage or SMS contact with its own number and memory. They read connected Google mail and calendar and track health, work and company tasks.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json",
      "license": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The public API (product info, personas, waitlist sign-up) needs no authentication and is limited to 60 requests a minute per IP. The per-user API behind the web app and iMessage bots needs the user's own session token and is not open to third parties (https://hirealpha.chat/developers). People connect their own Google account (https://hirealpha.chat).",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "\"Each persona is $19 a month\", or all three for $39 a month \"when Coworker and Cofounder ship\", with a 7-day free trial. An annual single hire is $190. The FAQ also says the Friend hire costs $5 a month for the first two months (https://hirealpha.chat/faq, checked 14 October 2026). No free tier.",
      "priceSummary": "$19 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on hirealpha.chat, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file, checked 14 October 2026.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://hirealpha.chat/developers",
      "llmsTxt": "https://hirealpha.chat/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://hirealpha.chat/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "messaging.rcs",
        "messaging.inbound",
        "mailbox.read",
        "calendar.read",
        "memory.user",
        "tasks.create"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "paid",
        "waitlist",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "disclosure": "HireAlpha competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.",
      "competesWith": "localghost",
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 8.4,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1005,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 39,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 2,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 10,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 24
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.",
        "bestFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.",
        "disclosure": "HireAlpha competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public prices, $19 a month a persona and $190 a year for one.",
          "The privacy page rules out training shared models and deletes data within 30 days of account deletion.",
          "Drafts never send until the owner approves, per the FAQ.",
          "Every page answers Accept text/markdown with Markdown."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.",
          "Coworker and Cofounder haven't shipped, and the home page starts from a waitlist.",
          "The public API covers product metadata and waitlist sign-up only. Nothing acts for a user.",
          "No changelog, status page or security contact found."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.",
          "Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.",
          "Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 8.4
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 2,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 10,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 22
        },
        "provenanceScore": 25
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://hirealpha.chat/api/public/info"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/hirealpha"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "HireAlpha persona",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 19,
          "note": "Per persona, 7-day trial. $190 a year for one."
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "hirealpha.chat",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-08-12",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://hirealpha.chat/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The sitemap lists /terms but it returns 404. No legal entity is named on any page read.",
          "hirealpha.chat/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-08-12 for hirealpha.chat."
        ],
        "score": 25
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "hirealpha",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-14T01:01:45.306572845Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 358,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 418,
          "p95ms24h": 493,
          "samples24h": 15,
          "samples30d": 15,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-13",
              "probes": 4,
              "ok": 4
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-14",
              "probes": 11,
              "ok": 11
            }
          ]
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T01:01:45.306572845Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "ironclaw",
      "name": "IronClaw",
      "vendor": "NEAR AI",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.ironclaw.com",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw",
      "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "`ironclaw onboard` writes a bearer token to `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token` and prints a login link that carries it as a `token` query parameter. The same token authorises the web interface and the Responses API with operator rights. Multi-user deployments can add Google or GitHub single sign-on and per-user API tokens with owner, admin or member roles. Connected accounts use OAuth (Google, Slack), a Telegram pairing code, or keys held in the encrypted secret store. The web interface binds to 127.0.0.1:3000 unless `--host` is changed (https://docs.ironclaw.com/using/webui.md).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to self-host under MIT or Apache-2.0, with model usage billed by whichever provider the owner selects, or nothing with Ollama. NEAR AI sells hosted instances on ironclaw.com as Starter (shown as $5 beside $0 a month, 1 agent, $5 credits), Basic at $20 a month (2 agents, $20 credits) and Pro+ at $200 a month (5 agents, $200 credits). The page does not say whether a card is needed. NEAR AI Cloud inference is priced per million tokens on near.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the release notes (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 12648,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.ironclaw.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.ironclaw.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "assistant.self-hosted",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "rust",
        "wasm",
        "telegram",
        "slack",
        "gmail",
        "mcp",
        "hosted-option",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-29",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 66.7,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 288,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 67,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 75
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-12. The ironclaw.com home page lists Discord and Signal among integrations, while the channel docs for the current release say Discord, Signal, WeChat and WeCom are not part of the 1.0 release, which shipped on 27 July 2026. The docs site also says it documents the latest stable release while its heartbeat, cron, shell and WASM pages name settings absent from the 1.4.1 source. A misleading claim, at the minimum, -2. https://www.ironclaw.com/; https://docs.ironclaw.com/channels/overview.md; https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/ironclaw-v1.4.1/docs/capabilities/routines/heartbeat.mdx"
        ],
        "verdict": "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.",
        "bestFor": "One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.",
        "strengths": [
          "Dual MIT or Apache-2.0 licence, with installers for seven targets on GitHub releases and no account needed to run it",
          "Each extension tool declares a default permission, effects, network targets and OAuth scopes in `manifest.toml`. Gmail reads use `gmail.readonly` and sends use `gmail.send`",
          "Secrets are encrypted with AES-256-GCM per the README, with the master key in the OS keychain, and are injected into requests outside the sandbox",
          "No analytics library was found in the 1.4.1 source. Trace Commons is opt-in and has no default endpoint",
          "Six stable releases between 27 July and 29 September 2026, each with dated notes and upgrade steps"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "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",
          "The `main` branch has had no commit since 10 September 2026, and open reports filed since mid-September show no replies. 1,363 issues and 183 pull requests are open",
          "Docs pages for heartbeat, cron, shell and WASM limits name settings such as `HEARTBEAT_ENABLED` and `ALLOW_LOCAL_TOOLS` that do not appear in the 1.4.1 source",
          "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or published GitHub advisory was found",
          "The home page lists Discord and Signal integrations, while the channel docs say both are not part of the 1.0 release"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts",
          "Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory",
          "Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds",
          "Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them",
          "Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 74,
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          "reliability": 67,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 79
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        "provenanceScore": 71
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      "connect": {
        "install": "IRONCLAW_RELEASE_TAG=ironclaw-v1.4.1\ncurl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf \"https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/download/${IRONCLAW_RELEASE_TAG}/ironclaw-installer.sh\" | sh\nironclaw onboard"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/ironclaw"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Hosted Basic plan (2 agents, $20 credits)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com"
        },
        {
          "item": "Hosted Pro+ plan (5 agents, $200 credits)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Jasnah, Inc. d/b/a NEAR AI",
        "domain": "ironclaw.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2018-01-04",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://near.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The NEAR AI terms of service (updated 24 September 2026) name Jasnah, Inc. d/b/a NEAR AI under Delaware law and cover NEAR AI Cloud and its API. They do not mention IronClaw or agent hosting, so no terms link is set and the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence stands in for the self-hosted software.",
          "The privacy policy (updated 4 September 2026) lists ironclaw.com, agent.near.ai, the IronClaw framework and IronHub among what it covers.",
          "The ironclaw.com home page says Built by Near Foundation and its footer says by NEAR AI.",
          "security.txt answered 404 on www.ironclaw.com, docs.ironclaw.com and near.ai.",
          "RDAP for ironclaw.com gives a registration date of 2018-01-04 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar, last changed 2026-04-20.",
          "A self-hosted instance answers on its owner's own host. Hosted instances answer at \u003cinstance-id\u003e.agents.near.ai per the quickstart."
        ],
        "score": 71
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "ironclaw",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "nearai/ironclaw",
            "version": "ironclaw-v1.4.1",
            "released": "2026-09-29",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://ironclaw.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:34.79798321Z"
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        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.ironclaw.com/llms.txt",
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          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:11:48.568401749Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://near.ai/privacy-policy",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:00.489082163Z",
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        "a": "HireAlpha",
        "b": "NEAR AI",
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      {
        "a": "https://hirealpha.chat/api/public",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
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        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
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      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
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      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
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      {
        "a": "Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.",
        "b": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
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      {
        "a": "none",
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        "a": "no document linked",
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      {
        "a": "",
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        "a": "",
        "b": "",
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        "a": "",
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        "a": "",
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      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
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      }
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    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or IronClaw?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).",
        "question": "Are HireAlpha and IronClaw open source?"
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        "also": [
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          "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.",
        "slug": "hirealpha",
        "watchFor": "No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named."
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 67 against 10",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 10",
          "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 0",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 2",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 24"
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        "also": [
          "Open source"
        ],
        "goodFor": "One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.",
        "slug": "ironclaw",
        "watchFor": "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"
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "assistant.messaging",
      "name": "Assistants reached by message"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "asaply vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-ironclaw.json",
        "title": "asaply vs IronClaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-ironclaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-ironclaw.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs IronClaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-ironclaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "AstrBot vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.json",
        "title": "Boba vs HireAlpha",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha"
      },
      {
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        "weight": 16
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        "ironclaw": 75,
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      "hirealpha": "HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.",
      "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."
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  "markdown": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json\n- IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #288 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### HireAlpha (F)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.\n\n### IronClaw (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 24\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HireAlpha | IronClaw | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 67 | IronClaw +57 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 74 | IronClaw +64 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 69 | IronClaw +69 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 66 | IronClaw +66 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | IronClaw +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 74 | IronClaw +72 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 75 | IronClaw +51 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **8.4 · F** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HireAlpha | IronClaw |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | HireAlpha | NEAR AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | none | 13k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### HireAlpha\n\n1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.\n2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.\n3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.\n\n### IronClaw\n\n1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts\n2. Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory\n3. Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds\n4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them\n5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or IronClaw?\n\nIronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are HireAlpha and IronClaw open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-ironclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-ironclaw.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hirealpha\", \"b\": \"ironclaw\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hirealpha ironclaw`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json\n\n## Other comparisons with HireAlpha or IronClaw\n\n- [asaply vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [asaply vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Asmi vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Asmi vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [AstrBot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Boski vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [CowAgent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Del vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Del vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [folk vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [GAIA vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Haven vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-natura.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orbits.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-pally.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-poke.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-szn.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tomo.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zapia.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [IronClaw vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-orbits.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [IronClaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-szn.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.md)\n- [AstrBot vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Boski vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [folk vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [GAIA vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Haven vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.md)\n- [IronClaw vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [IronClaw vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [IronClaw vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [IronClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [IronClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-leon.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-wajo.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-natura.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-pally.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-wajo.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-talorys.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- HireAlpha competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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