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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

QwenPaw vs Tab

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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QwenPawAgentScope · Agent harness B62.2/100#454 of 1010 TabTerrasoft, Inc. · Platform F10.7/100#1003 of 1010

Which one, for what

QwenPaw B

Best 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 5
  • Schema & documentation, 68 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 0
  • Security & auth, 60 against 4
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 73 against 58
  • Transparency & trust, 56 against 45

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

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

Tab F

Best for A person who wants a texting assistant that browses, calls and buys with tight checkout controls.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for

Private beta behind a waitlist.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runQwenPawTabEdge
Reliability16%20705QwenPaw +65
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2680QwenPaw +68
Agent ergonomics13%16.2670QwenPaw +67
Security & auth14%17.5604QwenPaw +56
Payments & pricing10%12.5600QwenPaw +60
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87358QwenPaw +15
Transparency & trust7%8.85645QwenPaw +11
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 62.2/100F 10.7/100

Facts side by side

FactQwenPawTab
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAgentScopeTerrasoft, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Closed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-11none
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno 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
Popularity36k starsnone

Verdicts

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.

Tab

Tab is a private-beta texting assistant with a detailed security page on credential isolation and checkout binding, and a public updates page. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, and its privacy policy says nothing on training with user content.

Before you call either

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

Tab

  1. Don't plan to call Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread.
  2. Tell the owner that access needs a waitlist place and no price is published.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Tab?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are QwenPaw and Tab open source?

QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Tab.

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Disclosure

Tab competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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.

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