# IronClaw vs Zapia > IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) to Zapia's 17.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.md (~3,350 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.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 - Updated: 2026-10-13 IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - IronClaw: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #288 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json - Zapia: grade F, 17.3/100, rank #995 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zapia.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 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 3 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 74 against 56 - Transparency & trust, 75 against 59 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 ### Zapia (F) Good for: Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app. Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | IronClaw | Zapia | 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 | 3 | IronClaw +63 | | 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 | 56 | IronClaw +18 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 59 | IronClaw +16 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **17.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | IronClaw | Zapia | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | NEAR AI | Brainlogic AI S.A.S. | | 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 Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms. | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-12 | | 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. **Zapia.** Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location 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 ### Zapia 1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access. 2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, IronClaw or Zapia? IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are IronClaw and Zapia open source? IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Zapia. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-zapia.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "ironclaw", "b": "zapia"}`. 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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.