# QwenPaw vs Tab (slim)

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Tab's 10.7 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- QwenPaw: B 62.2, rank #454 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md
- Tab: F 10.7, rank #1003 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot.min.md
- QwenPaw, 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 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 No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Tab, good for A person who wants a texting assistant that browses, calls and buys with tight checkout controls. Also No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them.

| Category | QwenPaw | Tab |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 5 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 0 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 0 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 4 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 58 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | QwenPaw | Tab |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AgentScope | Terrasoft, Inc. |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Closed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026). |
| Last release | 2026-09-11 | none |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 36k stars | none |