# GAIA vs Skydive

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to GAIA's 49.7 (D) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-31

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against GAIA's 49.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. GAIA leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- GAIA: grade D, 49.7/100, rank #959 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gaia.json
- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1245 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 41
- Maintenance & community, 78 against 56

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.

### Skydive (D)

Good for: A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 51
- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 54
- Security & auth, 59 against 54
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 62

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | GAIA | Skydive | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 41 | GAIA +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 81 | Skydive +30 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 59 | Skydive +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 59 | Skydive +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Skydive +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 56 | GAIA +22 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 75 | Skydive +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **49.7 · D** | **52.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | GAIA | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | The Experience Company | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0 | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-07 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 308 stars | 5.5k npm/wk |

## 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.

**Skydive.** Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

## 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.

### Skydive

1. Send tasks with `skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json` and pass `--conversation <id>` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
2. Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound `use` key when you only need to read. Account-level `edit` keys can create agents and mint keys.
4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, GAIA or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against GAIA's 49.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. GAIA leads on reliability and maintenance & community.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Skydive 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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