# QwenPaw vs Town

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Town's 48.7 (D) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #454 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json
- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 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 35
- Schema & documentation, 68 against 33
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 49
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 73 against 60

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

### Town (D)

Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 79 against 60
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 56

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | QwenPaw | Town | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 35 | QwenPaw +35 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 33 | QwenPaw +35 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 49 | QwenPaw +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 79 | Town +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | QwenPaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 60 | QwenPaw +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 63 | Town +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.2 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | QwenPaw | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AgentScope | Town.com, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-11 | 2026-10-10 |
| 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 |

## 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.

**Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

## 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

### Town

1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Town?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

### Are QwenPaw and Town open source?

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


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "qwenpaw", "b": "town"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare qwenpaw town`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json

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## Disclosure

- Town 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.