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

Asmi vs GAIA

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on payments & pricing. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 GAIAThe Experience Company · Platform D49.5/100#816 of 1010

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

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where GAIA loses 5 points for them

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

GAIA D

Best for It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 51 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 43
  • Security & auth, 54 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 51

Watch for

The default approval mode in the source is always_allow, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiGAIAEdge
Reliability16%203067GAIA +37
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22051GAIA +31
Agent ergonomics13%16.24354GAIA +11
Security & auth14%17.54954GAIA +5
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Asmi +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8378GAIA +75
Transparency & trust7%8.85160GAIA +9
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 33.3/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiGAIA
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.The Experience Company
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-09-14
Terms last updated2026-08-14
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-07
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone308 stars

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.

GAIA

GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.

Before you call either

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

GAIA

  1. Set Settings > Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.
  2. Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.
  3. Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.
  4. For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.
  5. Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or GAIA?

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on payments & pricing.

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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.

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