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

Asmi vs Instinct

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 InstinctSpear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) · Platform F7.3/100#1009 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

  • Reliability, 30 against 10
  • Schema & documentation, 20 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0
  • Security & auth, 49 against 3
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 0

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).

Instinct F

Best for People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiInstinctEdge
Reliability16%203010Asmi +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2200Asmi +20
Agent ergonomics13%16.2430Asmi +43
Security & auth14%17.5493Asmi +46
Payments & pricing10%12.5300Asmi +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.832Asmi +1
Transparency & trust7%8.85153Instinct +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100F 7.3/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiInstinct
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026).
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Terms last updated2026-08-26
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-26
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

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.

Instinct

Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.

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.

Instinct

  1. Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405.
  2. Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Instinct?

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (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.

Instinct 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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