# Brea vs Poke > Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Brea's 12.9 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.md (~3,200 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - 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 - 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 ### Brea (F) Good for: An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval. Also in its favour: - Free to start without a card Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### 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 15 - Schema & documentation, 42 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0 - Security & auth, 24 against 7 - Payments & pricing, 30 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 31 against 4 - Transparency & trust, 58 against 48 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 | Brea | Poke | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 51 | Poke +36 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 42 | Poke +32 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 30 | Poke +30 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 7 | 24 | Poke +17 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Poke +10 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 4 | 31 | Poke +27 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 58 | Poke +10 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **12.9 · F** | **37.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Brea | Poke | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Brea AI LLC | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | API key | | Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026). | 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 | yes | 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 **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. **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 ### Brea 1. Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread. 2. Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action. ### 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, Brea or Poke? Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-poke.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "brea", "b": "poke"}`. 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[Brea vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys.md) - [Poke vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-talorys.md) ## 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.