# QwenPaw vs Wajo (Fo)

> QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) to Wajo's 43.9 (E) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #454 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #907 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 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 30
- Security & auth, 60 against 38
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 73 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 56 against 47

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

### Wajo (Fo) (E)

Good for: An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 68

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No status page, changelog or security contact found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | QwenPaw | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 30 | QwenPaw +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 74 | Wajo (Fo) +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 68 | Wajo (Fo) +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 38 | QwenPaw +22 |
| 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 | 3 | QwenPaw +70 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 47 | QwenPaw +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.2 · B** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | QwenPaw | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AgentScope | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| 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 |

## 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.

**Wajo (Fo).** Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## 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

### Wajo (Fo)

1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Wajo (Fo)?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation.

### Are QwenPaw and Wajo (Fo) open source?

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


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Wajo (Fo) 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.