# Atticus vs Poke

> Atticus scores 42.9 (E) to Poke's 37.6 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Atticus: grade E, 42.9/100, rank #977 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atticus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atticus.json
- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #1025 of 1098. 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 875 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Atticus (E)

Good for: A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 51
- Security & auth, 49 against 24
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 51 against 31

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call

### 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:
- Schema & documentation, 42 against 15
- Agent ergonomics, 30 against 9

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 1.8 against 1.0 out of 5

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 | Atticus | Poke | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 51 | Atticus +17 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 42 | Poke +27 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 9 | 30 | Poke +21 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 24 | Atticus +25 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Atticus +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 31 | Atticus +20 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 58 | Poke +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **42.9 · E** | **37.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Atticus | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | SaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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 |
| Popularity | 163 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 1/5 (4) | 1.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Atticus.** Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.

**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

### Atticus

1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box
2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac
3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update

### 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, Atticus or Poke?

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

### Are Atticus and Poke open source?

Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Poke.


## For agents

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

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