# Claude Duet vs Tomo

> Claude Duet scores 17.9 (F) to Tomo's 13.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-25

Claude Duet scores 17.9 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- 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
- Tomo: grade F, 13.1/100, rank #1187 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.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 0
- Security & auth, 14 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 72 against 47

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

### Tomo (F)

Good for: People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 37

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Claude Duet | Tomo | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 0 | Claude Duet +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 0 | Claude Duet +14 |
| 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 | 54 | Tomo +17 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 47 | Claude Duet +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **17.9 · F** | **13.1 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Claude Duet | Tomo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Anthropic, PBC | Mapo Labs, Inc. |
| 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. | Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| 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.

**Tomo.** Tomo is a hosted personal AI over iMessage and an iOS app, centred on goals, check-ins and reminders, with regular iOS releases since April 2026. No outside agent can call it, there's no free plan, and no status page, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## 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

### Tomo

1. Don't plan to call Tomo from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, group chats it's added to and the iOS app.
2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.

## Questions

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

Claude Duet scores 17.9 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance & community.


## For agents

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