Sign in

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

DeepTutor vs Haven

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1196 assistants comparisons

DeepTutorHKUDS · Agent harness B62.7/100#494 of 1238 HavenHello Haven, Inc. · Platform F22.3/100#1178 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 35
  • Schema & documentation, 71 against 4
  • Agent ergonomics, 63 against 6
  • Security & auth, 51 against 13
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 35

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

Haven F

Best for A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDeepTutorHavenEdge
Reliability16%207835DeepTutor +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2714DeepTutor +67
Agent ergonomics13%16.2636DeepTutor +57
Security & auth14%17.55113DeepTutor +38
Payments & pricing10%12.56030DeepTutor +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88435DeepTutor +49
Transparency & trust7%8.85252even
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 62.7/100F 22.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDeepTutorHaven
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorHKUDSHello Haven, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-282026-09-17
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-07-24
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-07-24
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
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 reviewsnone1.8/5 (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.

Haven

Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

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

Haven

  1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
  2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
  3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
  4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
  5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, DeepTutor or Haven?

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are DeepTutor and Haven open source?

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

Other comparisons with DeepTutor or Haven

Machine-readable

For companies

Do agents find, use and choose your tools?

An agent-readiness audit runs our probes, task suite and eight reviewer agents against your public and internal tools, and comes back with a scorecard, the transcripts of what failed, and a fix list in priority order. From $2,500, re-run included. We never take payment to move a rank. We do help companies earn one.

Get an auditSee a sample report