{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "del", "name": "Del", "vendor": "Human Interface, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.withdel.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Del is a hosted personal assistant and task workspace reached by text over iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord or Slack. It keeps tasks, notes and reminders, reads and edits calendars, and handles Gmail and web tasks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/del.json", "license": "Closed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "\"No app, no login, just text Del\" to start, with a web app for the workspace (https://www.withdel.com). Google access uses the calendar.events and gmail.modify scopes. gmail.modify cannot permanently delete messages, and disconnecting deletes the stored tokens (https://www.withdel.com/privacy). Website logins are kept in a Vault (https://www.withdel.com/updates).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "\"Free to get started\" with a 14-day trial that needs no card, per the home page and the updates page (https://www.withdel.com and https://www.withdel.com/updates, checked 14 October 2026). The updates page records the monthly price lowered from $20 to $14.99 and names Standard and Pro plans, with web browsing tasks limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro. No pricing page was found.", "priceSummary": "$14.99 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on withdel.com, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "llmsTxt": "https://withdel.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "browser.hosted", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "llms-txt", "no-card" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 20.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 991, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 28, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 25, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 57 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.", "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.", "strengths": [ "Dated changelog entries on most days, the latest on 7 October 2026.", "Card-free 14-day trial.", "The privacy policy names hosting providers and regions, and says user content doesn't train generalised models.", "Gmail access uses the modify scope, which can't permanently delete messages." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "Since late September Del saves Gmail drafts, and sends email when the owner is the only recipient, without asking.", "No pricing page, and Standard and Pro aren't priced separately.", "No status page, security.txt or security contact found.", "A Human Interface employee may review requests, which Del discloses in the conversation." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace.", "Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 20.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 25, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/del" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Del subscription", "unit": "month", "usd": 14.99, "note": "Lowered from $20, per the updates page. Plan tier not stated for this price." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Human Interface, Inc.", "domain": "withdel.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-05-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.withdel.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.withdel.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.withdel.com/updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms were last updated on 5 August 2026 and the privacy policy on 30 September 2026.", "withdel.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page was found.", "robots.txt carries Content-Signal search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-05-14 for withdel.com." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.json" }, "answer": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "town", "name": "Town", "vendor": "Town.com, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.town.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Town is a hosted AI assistant, called a Townie, with its own email address. It works across the owner's email, calendar and connected work apps, runs scheduled routines, and answers by email, text, WhatsApp, Telegram, the web or iOS.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json", "license": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign up at town.com with account credentials or a linked Google or single sign-on account (https://www.town.com/terms-of-service). A routine can expose its own webhook URL, called with a bearer secret that is shown once and can be rotated. Town answers a wrong secret, a disabled endpoint and a missing one with the same 404 (https://www.town.com/docs/routines/stock-routines/webhooks).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at $0 with no credit card, 30 chat messages a month, the weekly briefing and a 7-day Pro trial on signup. Starter is $15 a month billed monthly with 1,250 credits. Pro ($49), Power ($99) and Power Plus ($199) are monthly prices at the billed-annually rate, and monthly billing is \"available at a slightly higher rate\". Team is $59 and Team Plus $149 a seat a month. Credits past the allotment bill at $0.044 (Pro), $0.038 (Power, Team), $0.032 (Power Plus) and $0.030 (Team Plus), with an optional monthly spend cap (https://www.town.com/pricing and https://www.town.com/docs/billing/plans, checked 14 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on town.com's pricing, docs and terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.town.com/docs", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "email.inbound", "voice.calls", "memory.user", "tasks.create", "notify.push", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "ios", "soc2", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 834, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "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.", "strengths": [ "Per-routine webhook secrets, shown once and rotatable, with an X-Town-Idempotency-Key header and six documented responses.", "Routines run in autonomous, approval-required or read-only mode, with per-tool overrides and account scope defaulting to the trigger account.", "Webhook payloads are framed as untrusted data, and Town can block a webhook routine that combines untrusted input with autonomous sending.", "SOC 2 Type 2 audited per the trust page, with a security@corp.town.com reporting address.", "Free plan at $0 with no credit card, and a dated subprocessor list naming model providers." ], "weaknesses": [ "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.", "The trust page says Town never sends without the owner's OK, while the docs describe autonomous routines and an Allow all actions session mode.", "A webhook call returns only 202, so the caller can't read what the routine did.", "No status page, published webhook rate limit or SLA found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.", "Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.", "Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.", "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.", "Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/town" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Town Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "Billed monthly, 1,250 credits. Checked 14 October 2026." }, { "item": "Town Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "Billed annually, 5,000 credits. Monthly billing costs more." }, { "item": "Town Power", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "Billed annually, 12,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Power Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "40,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Team", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 59, "note": "6,000 credits a seat, pooled." }, { "item": "Town Pro overage", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.044, "note": "Per credit past the plan allotment." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Town.com, Inc.", "domain": "town.com", "domainRegistered": "1996-11-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.town.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.town.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.town.com/updates", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "town.com's robots.txt gives ClaudeBot an allow list of named pages and disallows everything else, so only listed pages were read. security.txt and llms.txt are not on the list and were not requested.", "The terms name Town.com, Inc. and were updated on 21 July 2026. Legal contact legal@corp.town.com, support support@corp.town.com.", "No status page was found on the pages read.", "Webhook URLs are created per routine on Town's own service; their host is not shown in the docs.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 1996-11-13 for town.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Human Interface, Inc.", "b": "Town.com, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026).", "b": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-10", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Del or Town?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.", "slug": "del", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 35 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 33 against 10", "Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 57" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "slug": "town", "watchFor": "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.messaging", "name": "Assistants reached by message" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-del.json", "title": "asaply vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.json", "title": "asaply vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-del.json", "title": "Asmi vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.json", "title": "Asmi vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-del.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del.json", "title": "Boba vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.json", "title": "Boba vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-del.json", "title": "Boski vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-del.json", "title": "Brea vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.json", "title": "Brea vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-del.json", "title": "Caddy vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-del.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Del", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-del" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-folk-nozomio.json", "title": "Del vs folk", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-folk-nozomio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gaia.json", "title": "Del vs GAIA", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Del vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-haven.json", "title": "Del vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Del vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.json", "title": "Del vs HireAlpha", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Del vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Del vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Del vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Del vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Del vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-natura.json", "title": "Del vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Del vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Del vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openinstinct.json", "title": "Del vs OpenInstinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openinstinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orbits.json", "title": "Del vs Orbits", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orbits" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Del vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-pally.json", "title": "Del vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Del vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-poke.json", "title": "Del vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Del vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-szn.json", "title": "Del vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Del vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Del vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Del vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Del vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Del vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.json", "title": "HireAlpha vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town.json", "title": "OpenInstinct vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town.json", "title": "Orbits vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.json", "title": "Orchid vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.json", "title": "szn vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Tab vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Town vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.json", "title": "Boski vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.json", "title": "Caddy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.json", "title": "folk vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.json", "title": "GAIA vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.json", "title": "Haven vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.json", "title": "Instinct vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.json", "title": "Leon vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.json", "title": "Lindy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.json", "title": "nanobot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.json", "title": "Dots vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.json", "title": "Poke vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.json", "title": "QwenPaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Town vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Town vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "Del vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-leon.json", "title": "Del vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Del vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.json", "title": "Pally vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.json", "title": "Tomo vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Town vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Del vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.json", "title": "Talorys vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "del": 25, "edge": "town", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "town": 35, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "del": 10, "edge": "town", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "town": 33, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 49, "del": 0, "edge": "town", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "town": 49, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 79, "del": 0, "edge": "town", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "town": 79, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "del": 30, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "town": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "del": 60, "edge": "", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "town": 60, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 6, "del": 57, "edge": "town", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "town": 63, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.", "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.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.min.md" }, "markdown": "Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- Del: grade F, 20.6/100, rank #991 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/del.json\n- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Del (F)\n\nGood for: People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n### Town (D)\n\nGood for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 33 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 57\n\nWatch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Del | Town | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 35 | Town +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 33 | Town +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 49 | Town +49 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 79 | Town +79 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 63 | Town +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **20.6 · F** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Del | Town |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Human Interface, Inc. | Town.com, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026). | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-10 |\n| Terms last updated | | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Del\n\n1. Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace.\n2. Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro.\n\n### Town\n\n1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.\n2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.\n3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.\n4. 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.\n5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Del or Town?\n\nTown scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"del\", \"b\": \"town\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare del town`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/del.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Del or Town\n\n- [asaply vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-del.md)\n- [asaply vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.md)\n- [Asmi vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-del.md)\n- [Asmi vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-del.md)\n- [Boba vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del.md)\n- [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md)\n- [Boski vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-del.md)\n- [Brea vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-del.md)\n- [Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md)\n- [Caddy vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-del.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-del.md)\n- [Del vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-folk-nozomio.md)\n- [Del vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gaia.md)\n- [Del vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Del vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-haven.md)\n- [Del vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Del vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Del vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Del vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Del vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Del vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Del vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Del vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-natura.md)\n- [Del vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Del vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Del vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Del vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Del vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Del vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-pally.md)\n- [Del vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Del vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-poke.md)\n- [Del vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Del vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-szn.md)\n- [Del vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Del vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Del vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Del vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Del vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town.md)\n- [Orbits vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town.md)\n- [Orchid vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.md)\n- [szn vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.md)\n- [Tab vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town.md)\n- [Boski vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.md)\n- [Caddy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.md)\n- [folk vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.md)\n- [GAIA vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Haven vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Leon vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.md)\n- [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md)\n- [nanobot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Dots vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Poke vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Town vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Del vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gemini-spark.md)\n- [Del vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-leon.md)\n- [Del vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.md)\n- [Pally vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.md)\n- [Tomo vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Del vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- 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.\n- 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. 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