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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Gemini Spark vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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Gemini SparkGoogle LLC · Platform F24.9/100#1177 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

Gemini Spark F

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

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

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

Skydive D

Best 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

  • Reliability, 41 against 14
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 17
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 9
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 17
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 53

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

CategoryWeight this runGemini SparkSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%201441Skydive +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21781Skydive +64
Agent ergonomics13%16.2959Skydive +50
Security & auth14%17.56059Gemini Spark +1
Payments & pricing10%12.51035Skydive +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.81756Skydive +39
Transparency & trust7%8.85375Skydive +22
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 24.9/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactGemini SparkSkydive
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorGoogle LLCCreate, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of ServiceClosed 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 documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-05-192026-08-26
Terms last updated2026-07-30couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-24couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularitynone5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)none

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.

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

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

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, Gemini Spark or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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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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