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

Asmi vs Orchid

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 OrchidZero Email, Inc. · Platform F20.2/100#992 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

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

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).

Orchid F

Best for A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 50 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 24 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 51

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiOrchidEdge
Reliability16%203050Orchid +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22010Asmi +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.2430Asmi +43
Security & auth14%17.5490Asmi +49
Payments & pricing10%12.53010Asmi +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8324Orchid +21
Transparency & trust7%8.85160Orchid +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100F 20.2/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiOrchid
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Zero Email, Inc.
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 Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
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.

Orchid

Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.

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.

Orchid

  1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.
  2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.
  3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Orchid?

Asmi scores 33.3 (F) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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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.

Orchid 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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