# Claude Duet vs Dots > Dots scores 28.3 (F) to Claude Duet's 17.9 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.md (~3,950 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.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 - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-25 Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on reliability 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 - Dots: grade F, 28.3/100, rank #1138 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.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: - Reliability, 15 against 3 - Transparency & trust, 72 against 31 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 ### Dots (F) Good for: A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends. Ahead on: - Schema & documentation, 41 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 22 against 0 - Security & auth, 58 against 14 Watch for: Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Claude Duet | Dots | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 3 | Claude Duet +12 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 41 | Dots +31 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 22 | Dots +22 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 58 | Dots +44 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 10 | even | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 37 | 38 | Dots +1 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 31 | Claude Duet +41 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **17.9 · F** | **28.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Claude Duet | Dots | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Anthropic, PBC | OpenAI | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | Paid | | 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 hosted service. The governing terms were not read | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-10-09 | | Terms last updated | | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked | | Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | | | Terms restrict automated access | | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | | | Terms or service can change without notice | | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | | | 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. **Dots.** Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read. ## 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 ### Dots 1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision 2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone 3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer 4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained 5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Claude Duet or Dots? Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on reliability and transparency & trust. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-openai-dots.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "claude-duet", "b": "openai-dots"}`. 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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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp