# GAIA vs Skydive (slim)

> 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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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: D 49.7, rank #959 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.min.md
- Skydive: D 52.1, rank #899 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md
- GAIA, 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.
- Skydive, 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 A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | GAIA | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | GAIA | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |