# Pally vs ZeroClaw (slim)

> ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) to Pally's 37.8 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Pally's 37.8 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pally leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Pally: F 37.8, rank #956 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.min.md
- ZeroClaw: BB 70.2, rank #161 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.min.md
- Pally, good for A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 73 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them.
- ZeroClaw, good for One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model. Ahead on Reliability, 74 against 15; Schema & documentation, 82 against 33; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 31; Security & auth, 76 against 44; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 80 against 75. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Pally | ZeroClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 33 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 31 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 76 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pally | ZeroClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Pally Technologies, Inc. | ZeroClaw Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://agent.pally.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026). | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.pally/pally` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-09-05 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | none | 33k stars |