# Asmi vs Dots

> Asmi scores 33.3 (F) to Dots's 28.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots.md (~3,400 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-13

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Asmi: grade F, 33.3/100, rank #973 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asmi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asmi.json
- Dots: grade F, 28.3/100, rank #980 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Asmi (F)

Good for: An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 30 against 3
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 22
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Transparency & trust, 51 against 31

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).

### Dots (F)

Good for: A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 41 against 20
- Security & auth, 58 against 49
- Maintenance & community, 38 against 3

Watch for: Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Asmi | Dots | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 3 | Asmi +27 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 41 | Dots +21 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 22 | Asmi +21 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 58 | Dots +9 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 10 | Asmi +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 38 | Dots +35 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 31 | Asmi +20 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **28.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Asmi | Dots |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | OpenAI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| 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.

**Dots.** Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

## 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.

### Dots

1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Dots?

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openai-dots.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asmi", "b": "openai-dots"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare asmi openai-dots`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asmi.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json

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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.