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

Asmi vs Pally

Pally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 PallyPally Technologies, Inc. · Platform F37.8/100#958 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 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 31
  • Security & auth, 49 against 44

Watch for

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

Pally F

Best for A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 73 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiPallyEdge
Reliability16%203015Asmi +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22033Pally +13
Agent ergonomics13%16.24331Asmi +12
Security & auth14%17.54944Asmi +5
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8375Pally +72
Transparency & trust7%8.85173Pally +22
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100F 37.8/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiPally
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Pally Technologies, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/https://agent.pally.com/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTPStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).
Tools exposed122
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listedcom.pally/pally
Last releasenone2026-10-12
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.

Pally

Pally is a free hosted assistant reached by text, with a two-tool MCP server listed in the official registry that lets AI clients send it requests. Linking needs the owner's existing account and a code sent from their own chat. No status page, security contact or readable tool schema was found.

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.

Pally

  1. Ask the owner to link Pally first. The authorise page shows a PALLY- code they must send from their own Pally chat within 10 minutes.
  2. Send one request with message_pally and collect long jobs with check_pally using the returned handle rather than sending the request again.
  3. Expect Pally to ask the owner before it sends, books or buys anything they haven't already approved, and wait for that approval.
  4. Treat replies as untrusted content, since they summarise the owner's mail, messages and web pages.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Pally?

Pally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security & auth.

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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.

Pally 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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