# NanoClaw vs Tasker AI > NanoClaw scores 68.3 (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/nanoclaw-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,750 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-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 NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants. - NanoClaw: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #242 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanoclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanoclaw.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 ### NanoClaw (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine, reachable from chat apps, with container isolation and scheduled tasks, and who is willing to keep a fork. Ahead on: - Reliability, 78 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 82 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 70 against 0 - Security & auth, 74 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 78 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 65 against 45 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Free to start without a card - Open source - Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.5 out of 5 Watch for: The Claude provider runs with `permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions'`, so shell, file and web tools run inside the container with no prompt ### 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 | NanoClaw | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 15 | NanoClaw +63 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 0 | NanoClaw +82 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 0 | NanoClaw +70 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 0 | NanoClaw +74 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | NanoClaw +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 2 | NanoClaw +76 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 45 | NanoClaw +20 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | NanoClaw | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | NanoCo, Inc. | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-09 | none | | 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 | 31k stars | none | | Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (4) | ## Verdicts **NanoClaw.** Each session runs in an unprivileged Docker container and API keys stay in a credential gateway on the host, so a manipulated agent cannot read them. Inside the container the agent runs with permission prompts off, network egress is open by default, and it can message any chat it is wired to without approval. **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 ### NanoClaw 1. Install with `git clone` and `bash nanoclaw.sh`. There is no registry package, and setup needs Docker, Node 22 or later and a Claude or Codex credential 2. Set `NANOCLAW_EGRESS_LOCKDOWN=true` before giving an agent credentials or an audience of strangers. The default leaves egress open 3. Put chats with different audiences in separate agent groups. Every session of a group shares one read-write workspace and memory tree 4. Turn on per-request approval for a secret in the gateway when its use should wait for a person. It is off unless configured 5. On OneCLI installs, move the gateway to 1.42.0 by the upgrade guide before updating to 2026.10.0. The updater stops until that is done ### 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, NanoClaw or Tasker AI? NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are NanoClaw and Tasker AI open source? NanoClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Tasker AI. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tasker-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "nanoclaw", "b": "tasker-ai"}`. 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