# IronClaw vs Talorys

> IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to Talorys's 28.9 (F) for assistants that remember you. 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 Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants that remember you.

- IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #288 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json
- Talorys: grade F, 28.9/100, rank #976 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### 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 41
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0
- Security & auth, 66 against 8
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 52

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

### Talorys (F)

Good for: A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 74

Watch for: No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | IronClaw | Talorys | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 41 | IronClaw +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 0 | IronClaw +74 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 0 | IronClaw +69 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 8 | IronClaw +58 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 83 | Talorys +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 52 | IronClaw +23 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **28.9 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | IronClaw | Talorys |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | NEAR AI | Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 13k stars | 978 npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Talorys.** Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

## Before you call either

### 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

### Talorys

1. Run `npx create-talorys@latest` with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
3. Update with `npx create-talorys@latest update`. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, IronClaw or Talorys?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on maintenance & community.

### Are IronClaw and Talorys open source?

Yes. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0). Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Talorys 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.