# Gemini Spark vs Town

> Town scores 48.7 (D) to Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Gemini Spark: grade F, 24.5/100, rank #982 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-spark.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-spark.json
- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 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.

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

### Town (D)

Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 35 against 14
- Schema & documentation, 33 against 17
- Agent ergonomics, 49 against 9
- Security & auth, 79 against 60
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 60 against 17
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 49

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Gemini Spark | Town | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 14 | 35 | Town +21 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 17 | 33 | Town +16 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 9 | 49 | Town +40 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 79 | Town +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Town +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 17 | 60 | Town +43 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 63 | Town +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **24.5 · F** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Gemini Spark | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Google LLC | Town.com, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of Service | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-05-19 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 |  |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |

## 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.

**Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is 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

### Town

1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

## Questions

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

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Gemini Spark's 24.5 (F), and leads in every scored category.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Town 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.