What do you intend to do with the meter? Since these are both clamp meters, I'm assuming you intend to use it more for household mains electrical work than for low voltage electronics work.
For simple household mains work, either are probably fine. The Kaiweets has slightly better AC voltage accuracy but then again someone making AC measurements with budget meters is typically not concerned with absolute accuracy, so that 0.2% higher accuracy is probably not important to you. The NCV feature on the HT208D is incredibly sensitive, so much so as to be practically useless for anything beyond "something in the general area around me is probably live." The Ideal may have better transient protection, since as I recall the Kaiweets has very little protection, but I don't know that for sure. That's not something you normally see written up in the manual specs.
For low voltage DC work, the Ideal has pretty poor accuracy specs in DCV at 1.0% +/- 5 digits. For most hobbyists, DCV is the function you'll probably use most, followed by resistance, continuity, and diode mode. Capacitance mode is not all that useful in a DMM (some meters don't even have it), and when it is seriously needed most people lean towards an LCR meter. There's more to testing capacitors than just reading a capacitance value at whatever test frequency a DMM might use to test them. But again, you typically aren't using a clamp meter for bench DC work, short of the occasional quick current measurement where you can fit the clamp without breaking a circuit.
On paper the Kaiweets has better specs all around. I have it and it's a pretty good little clamp meter that's packed with features. But neither of these meters are what I'd consider professional quality.
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