{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "brea", "name": "Brea", "vendor": "Brea AI LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://brea.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Brea is a hosted personal AI assistant people text in iMessage. It replies to email, books flights and handles tasks across more than 2,000 connected apps, and uses a cloud browser for sites without an integration.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json", "license": "Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Sign up with a phone number at https://app.brea.ai/start, then text Brea in iMessage (https://brea.ai/llms.txt). Brea texts a secure link to connect an app when it needs one, and OAuth tokens are stored encrypted by its managed OAuth provider. Site logins are saved on a secure page, never in chat (https://brea.ai and https://brea.ai/privacy).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "\"Every account starts free, with every feature included. You do not need a credit card to sign up\" (https://brea.ai, FAQ, checked 14 October 2026). The docs name three plans, Free, Starter and Pro, which differ in monthly AI usage (not numbered) and connectors (1, 3 and no limit), billed monthly or yearly, with current prices shown only on the in-app Plan page (https://docs.brea.ai/settings/plan/). No paid price was published.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on brea.ai, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026. Purchases use one-time cards through Link by Stripe.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.brea.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://brea.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "browser.hosted", "commerce.checkout", "payments.card-token", "travel.booking", "memory.user", "notify.push" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "ios", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Brea 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 12.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1001, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 36, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 4, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 10, "security": 7, "transparency": 48 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found.", "bestFor": "An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval.", "disclosure": "Brea 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.", "strengths": [ "Free plan with every feature and no credit card, per the FAQ and docs.", "Asks before sending, inviting, deleting, paying or changing settings, with ALLOW, ALWAYS or DENY replies.", "Each purchase uses a new one-time card approved in Link.", "A published security reporting address, read by a person." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "Paid plan prices appear only on the in-app Plan page.", "No changelog, release notes or status page found.", "No hosting, model or OAuth providers named." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread.", "Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 12.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 4, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 10, "security": 7, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 55 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/brea" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Brea AI LLC", "domain": "brea.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-08-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://brea.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://brea.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms were last updated on 2 July 2026 and the privacy policy on 28 September 2026.", "brea.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2023-08-25 for brea.ai, which may predate the product." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.json" }, "answer": "Brea scores 12.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Instinct leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "instinct", "name": "Instinct", "vendor": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "vendorUrl": "https://instinct.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Instinct is a hosted personal assistant that a person texts or calls. It uses a phone and a computer on the owner's behalf, connects to Google Workspace and WhatsApp, and handles tasks such as bills, gifts, groceries and appointments.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json", "license": "Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign in to the web app at https://app.instinct.com/login, and the terms allow linking an Apple, Facebook or Google account (https://instinct.com/terms). The web app's onboarding has a capacity waitlist state (\"You're on the waitlist. We're letting people in as fast as we can.\") and an invite page, so a new sign-up may not get access straight away. No API key, MCP server or other programmatic access was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price or plan was published on instinct.com or found in the web app, checked 12 October 2026. The terms say people may have to pay fees for some parts of the service, charged in US dollars (https://instinct.com/terms, section 4). The value of this field is unconfirmed.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on instinct.com or in the web app, checked 12 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "calendar.write", "messaging.whatsapp", "voice.calls", "commerce.checkout", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "security-txt", "waitlist" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Instinct 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 7.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1009, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 41, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 0, "security": 3, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.", "bestFor": "People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.", "disclosure": "Instinct 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.", "strengths": [ "The privacy policy warns that third parties may plant instructions aimed at autonomous agents and asks owners to review actions.", "Google Workspace data and Vault items are excluded from model training.", "security.txt published with a contact and an expiry of 18 February 2027." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "No published price, plan or free tier.", "The web app has a capacity waitlist step for new sign-ups.", "Materials train models by default, and indexed data stays in use after a disconnect unless deletion is requested." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405.", "Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 7.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 0, "reliability": 10, "schema": 0, "security": 3, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/instinct" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "domain": "instinct.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-05-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://instinct.com/terms", "privacy": "https://instinct.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "instinct.co redirects to instinct.com.", "instinct.com/.well-known/security.txt names support@instinct.com and expires on 18 February 2027.", "Privacy questions go to privacy@instinct.com, and the site footer gives comms@instinct.com.", "No status page, changelog or llms.txt was found. Unknown paths on instinct.com return the site's HTML shell.", "The terms and privacy policy were last revised on 26 August 2026.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 1997-05-20 for instinct.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.json", "live": { "slug": "instinct", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://instinct.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-02-18T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:01.894126056Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://instinct.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:01.474114904Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb6232361476" }, { "url": "https://instinct.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:03.550077596Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "eb19bd068bfc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T20:18:03.550077596Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Brea AI LLC", "b": "Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026).", "b": "Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-08-26", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-08-26", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Brea scores 12.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Instinct leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Brea or Instinct?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 15 against 10", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 10 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval.", "slug": "brea", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 48" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.", "slug": "instinct", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.messaging", "name": "Assistants reached by message" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-brea.json", "title": "asaply vs Brea", "url": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orbits" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Instinct vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn.json", "title": "Instinct vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Instinct vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Instinct vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Boski vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Caddy vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct.json", "title": "folk vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct.json", "title": "GAIA vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Haven vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.json", "title": "Instinct vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Instinct vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Instinct vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Instinct vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.json", "title": "Instinct vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.json", "title": "Instinct vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Instinct vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "Brea vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-leon.json", "title": "Brea vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Brea vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura.json", "title": "Instinct vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally.json", "title": "Instinct vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Instinct vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Brea vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Instinct vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys" } ], "scores": [ { "brea": 15, "by": 5, "edge": "brea", "instinct": 10, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "brea": 10, "by": 10, "edge": "brea", "instinct": 0, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "brea": 0, "by": 0, "edge": "", "instinct": 0, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "brea": 7, "by": 4, "edge": "brea", "instinct": 3, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "brea": 20, "by": 20, "edge": "brea", "instinct": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "brea": 4, "by": 2, "edge": "brea", "instinct": 2, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "brea": 48, "by": 5, "edge": "instinct", "instinct": 53, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Brea scores 12.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Instinct leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do assistants reached by message.", "verdicts": { "brea": "Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found.", "instinct": "Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.min.md" }, "markdown": "Brea scores 12.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Instinct leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- Brea: grade F, 12.9/100, rank #1001 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json\n- Instinct: grade F, 7.3/100, rank #1009 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Brea (F)\n\nGood for: An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 15 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 10 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n### Instinct (F)\n\nGood for: People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 48\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Brea | Instinct | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 10 | Brea +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 0 | Brea +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 7 | 3 | Brea +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | Brea +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 4 | 2 | Brea +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 53 | Instinct +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **12.9 · F** | **7.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Brea | Instinct |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Brea AI LLC | Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026). | Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-08-26 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-08-26 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Brea.** Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found.\n\n**Instinct.** Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Brea\n\n1. Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread.\n2. Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action.\n\n### Instinct\n\n1. Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405.\n2. Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Brea or Instinct?\n\nBrea scores 12.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Instinct leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-instinct.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"brea\", \"b\": \"instinct\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare brea instinct`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Brea or Instinct\n\n- [asaply vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-brea.md)\n- [asaply vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Asmi vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-brea.md)\n- [Asmi vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-instinct.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-brea.md)\n- [Boba vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-brea.md)\n- [Boba vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Boski vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-brea.md)\n- [Brea vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-caddy-app.md)\n- [Brea vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Brea vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-del.md)\n- [Brea vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-folk-nozomio.md)\n- [Brea vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-gaia.md)\n- [Brea vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Brea vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-haven.md)\n- [Brea vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Brea vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Brea vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Brea vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Brea vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-natura.md)\n- [Brea vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Brea vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Brea vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Brea vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Brea vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-pally.md)\n- [Brea vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.md)\n- [Brea vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Brea vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-szn.md)\n- [Brea vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Brea vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md)\n- [Brea vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Brea vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Del vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Instinct vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Instinct vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Instinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Instinct vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-szn.md)\n- [Instinct vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Instinct vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zapia.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Boski vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Caddy vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [folk vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-instinct.md)\n- [GAIA vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Haven vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Instinct vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.md)\n- [Instinct vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Instinct vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Instinct vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Instinct vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.md)\n- [Instinct vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Brea vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-gemini-spark.md)\n- [Brea vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-leon.md)\n- [Brea vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Instinct vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-natura.md)\n- [Instinct vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally.md)\n- [Instinct vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Brea vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Instinct vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Brea 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.\n- Instinct competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. 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