Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run
Wajo (Fo) vs ZeroClaw
ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.
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Which one, for what
Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them
Watch for
No status page, changelog or security contact found.
ZeroClaw BB
Best for One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 74 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 82 against 74
- Security & auth, 76 against 38
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 47
Also in its favour
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source
Watch for
The docs state that command execution is not audited. [security.audit] records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Wajo (Fo) | ZeroClaw | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 30 | 74 | ZeroClaw +44 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 74 | 82 | ZeroClaw +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 68 | 72 | ZeroClaw +4 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 38 | 76 | ZeroClaw +38 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 60 | ZeroClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 3 | 80 | ZeroClaw +77 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 47 | 64 | ZeroClaw +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| Total | E 43.9/100 | BB 70.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Wajo (Fo) | ZeroClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Wajo, Inc. | ZeroClaw Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 21 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-05 |
| 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 | none | 33k stars |
Verdicts
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.
ZeroClaw
Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.
Before you call either
Wajo (Fo)
- 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.
- Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
- 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.
- Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
- Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.
ZeroClaw
- Keep
[risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised".fullruns every tool not listed inalways_ask, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too - Add sending and account tools such as
send_via,google_workspaceandhttp_requesttoalways_askso a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt - List senders in
[peer_groups.<name>] external_peers.["*"]accepts anyone on that channel - Set
[web_fetch].allowed_domainsand[http_request].allowed_domains. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress - Run one-shot tasks with
zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>". A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Wajo (Fo) or ZeroClaw?
ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category.
Are Wajo (Fo) and ZeroClaw open source?
No open-source release is listed for Wajo (Fo). ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).
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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.
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