# Claude Duet vs Skydive (slim)

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Claude Duet's 17.8 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.8 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Claude Duet: F 17.8, rank #1196 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.min.md
- Skydive: D 52.1, rank #899 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md
- Claude Duet, 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. Also No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them.
- Skydive, good for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI. Ahead on Reliability, 41 against 15; Schema & documentation, 81 against 10; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0; Security & auth, 59 against 14; Payments & pricing, 35 against 10; Maintenance & community, 56 against 37. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Claude Duet | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 10 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 14 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 37 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Claude Duet | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Anthropic, PBC | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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. | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |