# HireAlpha vs IronClaw (slim)

> IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- HireAlpha: F 8.4, rank #1005 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md
- IronClaw: B 66.7, rank #288 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.min.md
- HireAlpha, good for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies. Also No key needed to call it; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- IronClaw, 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 10; Schema & documentation, 74 against 10; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0; Security & auth, 66 against 0; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 74 against 2; Transparency & trust, 75 against 24. Also Open source.

| Category | HireAlpha | IronClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 10 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 10 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 2 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 24 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HireAlpha | IronClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | HireAlpha | NEAR AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no date given |
| Popularity | none | 13k stars |