# Asmi vs Poke

> Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Asmi's 33.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. 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
- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #960 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.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:
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 30
- Security & auth, 49 against 24

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).

### Poke (F)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 51 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 42 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 31 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 51

Watch for: No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Asmi | Poke | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 51 | Poke +21 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 20 | 42 | Poke +22 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 30 | Asmi +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 24 | Asmi +25 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 31 | Poke +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 58 | Poke +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **33.3 · F** | **37.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Asmi | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |

## 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.

**Poke.** Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

## 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.

### Poke

1. POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`
2. Expect only `{"success": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`

## Questions

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

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.


## For agents

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