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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Del vs Haven

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Del leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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DelHuman Interface, Inc. · Platform F20.6/100#991 of 1010 HavenHello Haven, Inc. · Platform F22.2/100#986 of 1010

Which one, for what

Del F

Best for People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 10 against 4
  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 35
  • Transparency & trust, 57 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

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

Haven F

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

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 25
  • Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
  • Security & auth, 13 against 0

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 runDelHavenEdge
Reliability16%202535Haven +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2104Del +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.206Haven +6
Security & auth14%17.5013Haven +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86035Del +25
Transparency & trust7%8.85751Del +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 20.6/100F 22.2/100

Facts side by side

FactDelHaven
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHuman Interface, Inc.Hello Haven, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026).Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-072026-09-17
Terms last updated2026-07-24
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-24
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

Verdicts

Del

Del is a hosted texting assistant and task workspace across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord and Slack, with a near-daily public changelog and a card-free 14-day trial. No outside agent can call it, no status page or security contact was found, and recent updates let some email actions skip approval.

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

Del

  1. Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace.
  2. Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro.

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, Del or Haven?

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Del leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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Disclosure

Del 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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