# Caddy vs Grok Bot

> Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) to Caddy's 16.7 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- 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

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Caddy: grade F, 16.7/100, rank #996 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/caddy-app.json
- Grok Bot: grade F, 24.4/100, rank #984 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.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

### Caddy (F)

Good for: People who want a free assistant in iMessage or RCS that watches mail, calendars and work tools and asks before acting.

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

### Grok Bot (F)

Good for: People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 30 against 10
- Security & auth, 14 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 52

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Caddy | Grok Bot | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 30 | Grok Bot +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 14 | Grok Bot +14 |
| 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) | 55 | 56 | Grok Bot +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 65 | Grok Bot +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **16.7 · F** | **24.4 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Caddy | Grok Bot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Caddy Technologies Inc. | Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Caddy's Terms of Service (Caddy Technologies Inc., last updated 27 April 2026). | Closed service under the Grok Bot Terms (last updated 12 October 2026), which supplement Anysphere's Cursor Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-29 |
| 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

**Caddy.** Caddy is a free iMessage and RCS assistant in public beta that watches connected mail, calendars and work apps and asks before sending email or changing data. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found, though its iOS app ships every week or two.

**Grok Bot.** Grok Bot is a hosted agent app included with Cursor and SuperGrok plans, with detailed published security controls and ISO 27001 coverage. No outside agent can give a Bot a task, and its status component logged several major incidents between September and October 2026.

## Before you call either

### Caddy

1. Don't plan to call Caddy from another agent. It answers the owner's text messages, Siri and group chats it's added to.
2. Expect Caddy to ask the owner before it sends email or creates an invite.

### Grok Bot

1. Don't plan to call Grok Bot from another agent. Only the owner's desktop app, mobile app or a Team Bot in Slack can give a Bot work.
2. Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.
3. Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.
4. Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Caddy or Grok Bot?

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Caddy 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.
- Grok Bot 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.