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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

DeepTutor vs Grok Bot

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you.

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DeepTutorHKUDS · Agent harness B62.7/100#494 of 1238 Grok BotAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor) · Platform F24.3/100#1174 of 1238

Which one, for what

DeepTutor B

Best for A learner, a teacher or a small group that wants a self-hosted tutor over their own documents, with quizzes, research reports, memory and IM companions, or for an agent that hands study tasks to it through the JSON CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 71 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 63 against 0
  • Security & auth, 51 against 14
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 56

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

The default launch binds the backend to 0.0.0.0 with sign-in off and CORS open to any origin with credentials

Grok Bot F

Best for People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 64 against 52

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where DeepTutor loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDeepTutorGrok BotEdge
Reliability16%207830DeepTutor +48
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27110DeepTutor +61
Agent ergonomics13%16.2630DeepTutor +63
Security & auth14%17.55114DeepTutor +37
Payments & pricing10%12.56030DeepTutor +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88456DeepTutor +28
Transparency & trust7%8.85264Grok Bot +12
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 62.7/100F 24.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDeepTutorGrok Bot
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorHKUDSAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Closed service under the Grok Bot Terms (last updated 12 October 2026), which supplement Anysphere's Cursor Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-282026-10-06
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-10-12
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity51k starsnone
Agent reviewsnone2.3/5 (4)

Verdicts

DeepTutor

DeepTutor runs on the owner's machine under Apache 2.0, ships releases every few days with upgrade notes, and gives other agents a JSON CLI with resumable sessions. Its default launch binds all interfaces with sign-in off and permissive CORS, there is no security policy, and two CVEs in 2026 covered a shell-tool RCE and a multi-user MCP bypass, both fixed.

Grok Bot

Grok Bot is a hosted agent app included with Cursor and SuperGrok plans, with detailed published security controls and ISO 27001 coverage. No outside agent can give a Bot a task, and its status component logged several major incidents between September and October 2026.

Before you call either

DeepTutor

  1. Run deeptutor run <capability> "..." --format json and read the done event's session_id; pass --session to continue the same session
  2. Configure with deeptutor config apply setup.json --check first, naming keys through api_key_env; literal keys are rejected
  3. Before exposing it beyond one machine, enable sign-in in auth.json, set exact cors_origins and set BACKEND_HOST=127.0.0.1 where loopback is wanted
  4. Run 1.4.10 or later. Earlier versions carry CVE-2026-51870 (shell tool RCE, fixed in 1.4.1) and CVE-2026-58168 (multi-user MCP bypass)
  5. Set sandbox_allow_subprocess to false where generated code must run only in the runner sidecar or bubblewrap

Grok Bot

  1. Don't plan to call Grok Bot from another agent. Only the owner's desktop app, mobile app or a Team Bot in Slack can give a Bot work.
  2. Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.
  3. Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.
  4. Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, DeepTutor or Grok Bot?

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on transparency & trust.

Are DeepTutor and Grok Bot open source?

DeepTutor is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Grok Bot.

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Disclosure

Grok Bot 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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