# Claude Duet vs Haven

> Haven scores 22.2 (F) to Claude Duet's 17.9 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-25

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Claude Duet: grade F, 17.9/100, rank #1162 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-duet.json
- Haven: grade F, 22.2/100, rank #1149 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1051 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Claude Duet (F)

Good for: A US Pro or Max subscriber who runs work or a small business through connected apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto and HubSpot and wants a morning brief and approved actions.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 10 against 4
- Transparency & trust, 72 against 51

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.3 against 1.8 out of 5

Watch for: No API, MCP server, A2A endpoint or connector lets an outside agent send Duet a task or read its results

### Haven (F)

Good for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 35 against 15
- Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10

Watch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Claude Duet | Haven | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 35 | Haven +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 4 | Claude Duet +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 6 | Haven +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 13 | Claude Duet +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Haven +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 37 | 35 | Claude Duet +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 51 | Claude Duet +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **17.9 · F** | **22.2 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Claude Duet | Haven |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Anthropic, PBC | Hello Haven, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service. No Claude Duet terms were found. It runs on a Claude account, and Anthropic's Consumer Terms of Service (Anthropic, PBC, effective 8 October 2025) cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro and other products for individuals with their associated apps. | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-24 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-07-24 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 1.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Claude Duet.** Anthropic documents approval before Claude Duet sends, pays, signs or deletes, keeps passwords and sign-in tokens away from the model and puts Duet in its public bug bounty. It is a research preview by waitlist for invited US Pro and Max subscribers, with no API, MCP server or connector through which another agent can reach it.

**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

## Before you call either

### Claude Duet

1. Don't plan an integration against Claude Duet. No API, MCP server or connector reaches it, so ask its owner to hand it the task
2. Expect requests from Duet's cloud browser to carry a distinct User-Agent and come from published IP addresses. The string and the list weren't found on the pages read
3. Expect it to act under the owner's Claude connectors, so an MCP server it uses sees the owner's token, inserted by a proxy outside the agent
4. Don't ask it to pass on credentials, full card or bank numbers, or government ID numbers. Its classifier blocks them even when the owner asks
5. Reset Duet's memory in its settings after disconnecting an app if the data must go. Disconnecting stops new access only

### Haven

1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Claude Duet or Haven?

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Claude Duet competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. 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. All three run on Claude, and every review of it carries a conflict label.

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