# Instinct vs QwenPaw (slim)

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Instinct's 11.4 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Instinct's 11.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.

- Instinct: F 11.4, rank #984 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.min.md
- QwenPaw: B 62.2, rank #454 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md
- Instinct, good for A consumer assistant for one adult who wants errands done by text or phone call, such as bill disputes, gifts, groceries, appointments and travel, and who accepts that it acts and spends as their agent. Also No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them.
- QwenPaw, good for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 5; Schema & documentation, 68 against 3; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 5; Security & auth, 60 against 25; Payments & pricing, 60 against 0; Maintenance & community, 73 against 3; Transparency & trust, 56 against 51. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Instinct | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 5 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 3 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 5 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 25 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 3 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Instinct | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Spear Street Technology, Inc. | AgentScope |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Instinct's Terms of Service, which grant personal use only | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | none | 36k stars |