# DeepTutor vs Town

> DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) to Town's 48.7 (D) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you.

- DeepTutor: grade B, 62.7/100, rank #494 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deeptutor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deeptutor.json
- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #982 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### DeepTutor (B)

Good 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 33
- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 49
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 84 against 60

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- 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

### Town (D)

Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 79 against 51
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 52

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where DeepTutor loses 3 points for them

Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | DeepTutor | Town | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 35 | DeepTutor +43 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 33 | DeepTutor +38 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 49 | DeepTutor +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 79 | Town +28 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | DeepTutor +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 60 | DeepTutor +24 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 63 | Town +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.7 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | DeepTutor | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | HKUDS | Town.com, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-21 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 51k stars | none |

## 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.

**Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

## 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

### Town

1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, DeepTutor or Town?

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

### Are DeepTutor and Town open source?

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


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Town 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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