Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run
Asmi vs Brea
Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.
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Which one, for what
Asmi F
Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 30 against 15
- Schema & documentation, 20 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0
- Security & auth, 49 against 7
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
Watch for
Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).
Brea F
Best for An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval.
Also in its favour
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Asmi | Brea | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 30 | 15 | Asmi +15 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 20 | 10 | Asmi +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 43 | 0 | Asmi +43 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 49 | 7 | Asmi +42 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 20 | Asmi +10 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 3 | 4 | Brea +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 51 | 48 | Asmi +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | F 33.3/100 | F 12.9/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Asmi | Brea |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | Brea AI LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/ | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026). |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Terms last updated | ||
| Privacy policy last updated | ||
| Customer content may train models | ||
| Terms restrict automated access | ||
| Terms restrict benchmarking | ||
| Terms or service can change without notice | ||
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |
Verdicts
Asmi
Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found.
Brea
Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found.
Before you call either
Asmi
- Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
- Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
- Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
- Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
- Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.
Brea
- Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread.
- Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Brea?
Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.
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Disclosure
Asmi 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.
Brea 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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