# Lobby vs QwenPaw > QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Lobby's 11.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw.md (~3,600 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw.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 QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts. - Lobby: grade F, 11.1/100, rank #1182 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lobby-os.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json - QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #498 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.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 ### Lobby (F) Good for: A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### QwenPaw (B) Good for: One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice. Ahead on: - Reliability, 70 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 68 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 67 against 0 - Security & auth, 60 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 73 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 56 against 43 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Runs on your own machine - Open source - Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5 Watch for: Usage data is on by default, `qwenpaw init --defaults` accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Lobby | QwenPaw | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 70 | QwenPaw +55 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 68 | QwenPaw +58 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 67 | QwenPaw +67 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 60 | QwenPaw +60 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | QwenPaw +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 73 | QwenPaw +71 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 56 | QwenPaw +13 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **11.1 · F** | **62.2 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Lobby | QwenPaw | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Lobby OS, Inc. | AgentScope | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | HTTP, stdio | | Auth | OAuth | None | | Pricing | Paid | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. | Apache-2.0 | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | none | 2026-09-11 | | Terms last updated | | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | | 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 | none | 36k stars | | Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) | ## Verdicts **Lobby.** Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026. **QwenPaw.** Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published. ## Before you call either ### Lobby 1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner. 2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app. 3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say. ### QwenPaw 1. Set `QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` before `qwenpaw init --defaults` or `qwenpaw app`. Both send usage data without asking 2. Set `approval_level` to `STRICT` or `SMART` in `agent.json`. The default `AUTO` runs every tool call no guard rule flags 3. Set `dm_policy` and `group_policy` to `allowlist` with `allow_from` on each channel. Both default to `open` 4. Set `QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true` before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then 5. Keep mail tools on `ask` for `send_message`, `delete_message` and `delete_thread`, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Lobby or QwenPaw? QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Lobby and QwenPaw open source? No open-source release is listed for Lobby. QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-qwenpaw.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "lobby-os", "b": "qwenpaw"}`. 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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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp