# OpenClaw vs Tasker AI > OpenClaw scores 67.1 (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/openclaw-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,700 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-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 OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants. - OpenClaw: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #288 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.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 ### OpenClaw (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete. Ahead on: - Reliability, 75 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 84 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 77 against 0 - Security & auth, 74 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 86 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 68 against 45 Also in its favour: - Open source - Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 1.5 out of 5 Watch for: Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off ### 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 | OpenClaw | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 15 | OpenClaw +60 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 0 | OpenClaw +84 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 0 | OpenClaw +77 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 0 | OpenClaw +74 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | OpenClaw +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 2 | OpenClaw +84 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 45 | OpenClaw +23 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **67.1 · B** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | OpenClaw | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | OpenClaw Foundation | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | 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 | yes | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | 2026-10-12 | 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 | 392k stars | none | | Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (4) | ## Verdicts **OpenClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical. **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 ### OpenClaw 1. Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval 2. Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default 3. Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation 4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it 5. Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access ### 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, OpenClaw or Tasker AI? OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are OpenClaw and Tasker AI open source? OpenClaw is open source (MIT). 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