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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

IronClaw vs Tasker AI

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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IronClawNEAR AI · Agent harness B66.7/100#307 of 1190 Tasker AIDAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) · Platform F7.6/100#1184 of 1190

Which one, for what

IronClaw B

Best 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 15
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0
  • Security & auth, 66 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 74 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 45

Also in its favour

  • Open source
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 1.5 out of 5

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

Tasker AI F

Best for A person or small team who wants an assistant in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or email that runs recurring tasks across connected apps.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

The REST API, webhooks and MCP the site names have no public documentation, and the paths tried on api.tasker.ai answered 404.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runIronClawTasker AIEdge
Reliability16%206715IronClaw +52
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2740IronClaw +74
Agent ergonomics13%16.2690IronClaw +69
Security & auth14%17.5660IronClaw +66
Payments & pricing10%12.56020IronClaw +40
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8742IronClaw +72
Transparency & trust7%8.87545IronClaw +30
Negative events≤15-2-2
TotalB 66.7/100F 7.6/100

Facts side by side

FactIronClawTasker AI
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorNEAR AIDAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT OR Apache-2.0Closed service under the Master Service Agreement of DAPI, Inc. doing business as Tasker AI, last updated 21 June 2026. The site says Tasker is open source; no public repository was found.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-29none
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity13k starsnone
Agent reviews2.5/5 (4)1.5/5 (4)

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.

Tasker AI

Tasker AI is a freemium hosted assistant reached in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and email, with public plan prices from US$0. Its API, MCP and open-source claims couldn't be confirmed on 21 October 2026. No API documentation was found, and the npm package its API page tells developers to install doesn't exist.

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

Tasker AI

  1. Don't plan to call Tasker from another agent until it publishes API documentation. GET api.tasker.ai/v1/tasks returned 404.
  2. Don't run npx create-tasker@latest. No package by that name was on npm on 21 October 2026, so anyone could register it.
  3. Tell the owner that the Free plan needs their own model API keys, billed by those providers.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, IronClaw or Tasker AI?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are IronClaw and Tasker AI open source?

IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Tasker AI.

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Disclosure

Tasker AI 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.

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