# IronClaw vs Wajo (Fo)

> IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to Wajo's 43.9 (E) for assistants that act in your accounts. 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 Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- 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
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #907 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.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 30
- Security & auth, 66 against 38
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 74 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 47

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

### Wajo (Fo) (E)

Good for: An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No status page, changelog or security contact found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | IronClaw | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 30 | IronClaw +37 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 68 | IronClaw +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 38 | IronClaw +28 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | IronClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 3 | IronClaw +71 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 47 | IronClaw +28 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | IronClaw | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | NEAR AI | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| 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 |

## 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.

**Wajo (Fo).** Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## 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

### Wajo (Fo)

1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, IronClaw or Wajo (Fo)?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Are IronClaw and Wajo (Fo) open source?

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


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Wajo (Fo) 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.