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

QwenPaw vs Zapia

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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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 15
  • Schema & documentation, 68 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 0
  • Security & auth, 60 against 3
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 73 against 56

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

Zapia F

Best for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app.

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runQwenPawZapiaEdge
Reliability16%207015QwenPaw +55
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2680QwenPaw +68
Agent ergonomics13%16.2670QwenPaw +67
Security & auth14%17.5603QwenPaw +57
Payments & pricing10%12.56030QwenPaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87356QwenPaw +17
Transparency & trust7%8.85659Zapia +3
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 62.2/100F 17.3/100

Facts side by side

FactQwenPawZapia
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAgentScopeBrainlogic AI S.A.S.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Closed service under Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-112026-10-12
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.

Zapia

Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location 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

Zapia

  1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access.
  2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Zapia?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are QwenPaw and Zapia open source?

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

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Disclosure

Zapia 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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