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AstrBot vs Pipecat

Pipecat leads on trust: 85.0/100 (Grade A) against 65.6/100 (Grade B), a 19.4-point gap. Pipecat leads on provenance and adoption, and rests on broader evidence.

B AstrBot 65.6

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

AstrBotDevs/AstrBot · #476 overall · #4 Voice & Conversational · coverage C (2/5)

AstrBot doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

A Pipecat 85.0

Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.

pipecat-ai/pipecat · #91 overall · #3 Voice & Conversational · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Pipecat if provenance and adoption matter most.

+7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
+6.3Adoption
+4.6Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 6.3 against 5.5
+0.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.3 against 5.5

Where they differ

11.8

Safety / IntegrityPipecat +4.6

16.4

10.8

Identity / ProvenancePipecat +7.2

18.0

13.2

TransparencyPipecat +0.7

13.9

11.1

AdoptionPipecat +6.3

17.4

-1.3

Runtime calibrationPipecat +0.6

-0.7

1 dimension identical: Maintenance 20.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of AstrBot and Pipecat, two Voice & Conversational projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	AstrBotAstrBotDevs/AstrBot	Pipecatpipecat-ai/pipecat
HVTrust score	65.6	85.0
Evidence grade	B	A
Coverage grade	C	A
Overall rank	#476	#91
Rank in Voice & Conversational	#4	#3
GitHub stars	41.6k	16.3k
Last updated	today	today
Build provenance	No	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	5.5 / 10	6.3 / 10
License	AGPL-3.0	BSD-2-Clause
Downloads	—	277k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	11.8	16.4
Identity & provenance / 18	10.8	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.2	13.9
Maintenance / 20	20.0	20.0
Adoption / 20	11.1	17.4
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	—
External providers	3 — Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI	7 — Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, …
Requires API keys	No	No
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	—	Match

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →