# IronClaw vs Tasker AI > IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to Tasker AI's 7.6 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,700 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-21 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. - IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #307 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json - Tasker AI: grade F, 7.6/100, rank #1191 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tasker-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tasker-ai.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1006 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 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) Good for: A person or small team who wants an assistant in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or email that runs recurring tasks across connected apps. 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 | Category | Weight | IronClaw | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 15 | IronClaw +52 | | 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 | 0 | IronClaw +66 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | IronClaw +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 2 | IronClaw +72 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 45 | IronClaw +30 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | IronClaw | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | NEAR AI | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Closed 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 documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | 2026-09-29 | none | | Terms last updated | no document linked | | | Privacy policy last updated | no 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 | | | | Popularity | 13k stars | none | | Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (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. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "ironclaw", "b": "tasker-ai"}`. 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