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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Claude Duet vs Lobby

Claude Duet scores 17.9 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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Claude DuetAnthropic, PBC · Platform F17.9/100#1162 of 1210 LobbyLobby OS, Inc. · Platform F11.1/100#1194 of 1210

Which one, for what

Claude Duet F

Best 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

  • Security & auth, 14 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 37 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 72 against 43

Watch for

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

Lobby F

Best for A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClaude DuetLobbyEdge
Reliability16%201515even
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21010even
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.5140Claude Duet +14
Payments & pricing10%12.51020Lobby +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8372Claude Duet +35
Transparency & trust7%8.87243Claude Duet +29
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 17.9/100F 11.1/100

Facts side by side

FactClaude DuetLobby
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorAnthropic, PBCLobby OS, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed 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.Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-24none
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews2.3/5 (4)2/5 (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.

Lobby

Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026.

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

Lobby

  1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner.
  2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app.
  3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Claude Duet or Lobby?

Claude Duet scores 17.9 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing.

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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.

Lobby 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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