# QwenPaw vs Tasker AI > QwenPaw scores 62.2 (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/qwenpaw-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,700 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-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 QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants. - QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #498 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.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 ### QwenPaw (B) 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 15 - Schema & documentation, 68 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 67 against 0 - Security & auth, 60 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 73 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 56 against 45 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Runs on your own machine - Open source - Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.5 out of 5 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 ### 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 | QwenPaw | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 15 | QwenPaw +55 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 0 | QwenPaw +68 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 0 | QwenPaw +67 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 0 | QwenPaw +60 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | QwenPaw +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 2 | QwenPaw +71 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 45 | QwenPaw +11 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **62.2 · B** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | QwenPaw | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | AgentScope | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP, stdio | | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 | no | no | | Last release | 2026-09-11 | 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 | 36k stars | none | | Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (4) | ## 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. **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 ### 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 ### 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, QwenPaw or Tasker AI? QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are QwenPaw and Tasker AI open source? QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Tasker AI. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tasker-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tasker-ai.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "qwenpaw", "b": "tasker-ai"}`. 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