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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Caddy vs HireAlpha

Caddy scores 16.7 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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CaddyCaddy Technologies Inc. · Platform F16.7/100#996 of 1010 HireAlphaHireAlpha · Platform F8.4/100#1005 of 1010

Which one, for what

Caddy F

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

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 55 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 24

Watch for

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

HireAlpha F

Best for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCaddyHireAlphaEdge
Reliability16%201010even
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21010even
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.500even
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Caddy +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8552Caddy +53
Transparency & trust7%8.85224Caddy +28
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 16.7/100F 8.4/100

Facts side by side

FactCaddyHireAlpha
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCaddy Technologies Inc.HireAlpha
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://hirealpha.chat/api/public
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Caddy's Terms of Service (Caddy Technologies Inc., last updated 27 April 2026).Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-13none
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updated
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.

HireAlpha

HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.

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.

HireAlpha

  1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.
  2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.
  3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Caddy or HireAlpha?

Caddy scores 16.7 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.

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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.

HireAlpha 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.

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