# GAIA vs Grok Bot

> GAIA scores 49.5 (D) to Grok Bot's 45.2 (E) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do assistant proactive.

- GAIA: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #813 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gaia.json
- Grok Bot: grade E, 45.2/100, rank #893 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### GAIA (D)

Good for: It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 67 against 40
- Schema & documentation, 51 against 40
- Maintenance & community, 78 against 20

Watch for: The default approval mode in the source is `always_allow`, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.

### Grok Bot (E)

Good for: A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 68 against 54
- Payments & pricing, 25 against 20
- Transparency & trust, 66 against 60

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where GAIA loses 5 points for them

Watch for: All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | GAIA | Grok Bot | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 40 | GAIA +27 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 40 | GAIA +11 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 50 | GAIA +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 68 | Grok Bot +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Grok Bot +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 20 | GAIA +58 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 66 | Grok Bot +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **49.5 · D** | **45.2 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | GAIA | Grok Bot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | The Experience Company | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0 | Proprietary |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 308 stars | none |

## Verdicts

**GAIA.** GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.

**Grok Bot.** Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.

## Before you call either

### GAIA

1. Set Settings > Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.
2. Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.
3. Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.
4. For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.
5. Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode.

### Grok Bot

1. State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules
2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match
3. Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials
4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools
5. To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, GAIA or Grok Bot?

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

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