# Gemini Spark vs Poke

> Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Spark leads on security & auth. Both do assistant proactive.

- Gemini Spark: grade F, 24.5/100, rank #974 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-spark.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-spark.json
- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #955 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.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

### Gemini Spark (F)

Good for: A person who already keeps mail, calendar and files in a personal Google Account and accepts Keep Activity being on.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 60 against 24

Watch for: No public API, SDK or MCP server for an outside agent was found. Spark is reached in the Gemini mobile app, the Mac app and gemini.google.com

### Poke (F)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 51 against 14
- Schema & documentation, 42 against 17
- Agent ergonomics, 30 against 9
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 31 against 17
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 49

Watch for: No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Gemini Spark | Poke | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 14 | 51 | Poke +37 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 17 | 42 | Poke +25 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 9 | 30 | Poke +21 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 24 | Gemini Spark +36 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Poke +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 17 | 31 | Poke +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 58 | Poke +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **24.5 · F** | **37.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Gemini Spark | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Google LLC | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-05-19 | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |

## Verdicts

**Gemini Spark.** Google's help pages state what Spark confirms before doing, how to delete its remote browser and code data, and the risks of prompt injection. Spark has no public API, Google calls it experimental, and it runs only with Keep Activity on, the setting under which chats are used for model training and human review.

**Poke.** Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

## Before you call either

### Gemini Spark

1. Do not plan an integration against Spark. No public API or MCP server was found, and a person must hold a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription
2. Expect a confirmation request before sends, edits, purchases and web form submissions, and note that bulk changes to private Google Tasks run without one
3. Delete remote browser data and remote code execution data in Gemini Spark Settings after a sensitive session. Deleting a task thread or Gemini Apps activity does not remove them
4. Keep within 15 running tasks and 50 active schedules. A schedule does not run when 15 tasks are running or the usage limit is reached
5. Treat every safety statement here as Google's own description. None was tested, and no message was sent to the service

### Poke

1. POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`
2. Expect only `{"success": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Spark or Poke?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Spark leads on security & auth.


## For agents

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

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