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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Grok Bot vs Orbits

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants reached by message.

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Grok BotAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor) · Platform F24.4/100#984 of 1010 OrbitsNemus AI, Inc. · Platform F15.6/100#997 of 1010

Which one, for what

Grok Bot F

Best for People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 30 against 15
  • Security & auth, 14 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Transparency & trust, 65 against 43

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.

Orbits F

Best for Families who want one shared assistant for calendars, lists, meals, chores and household email.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No public agent API, as llms.txt states.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGrok BotOrbitsEdge
Reliability16%203015Grok Bot +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21010even
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.5140Grok Bot +14
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Grok Bot +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85654Grok Bot +2
Transparency & trust7%8.86543Grok Bot +22
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 24.4/100F 15.6/100

Facts side by side

FactGrok BotOrbits
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor)Nemus AI, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under the Grok Bot Terms (last updated 12 October 2026), which supplement Anysphere's Cursor Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026).Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-062026-10-13
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-29
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver

Verdicts

Grok Bot

Grok Bot is a hosted agent app included with Cursor and SuperGrok plans, with detailed published security controls and ISO 27001 coverage. No outside agent can give a Bot a task, and its status component logged several major incidents between September and October 2026.

Orbits

Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found.

Before you call either

Grok Bot

  1. Don't plan to call Grok Bot from another agent. Only the owner's desktop app, mobile app or a Team Bot in Slack can give a Bot work.
  2. Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.
  3. Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.
  4. Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine.

Orbits

  1. Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered.
  2. Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Orbits?

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

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Disclosure

Grok Bot 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.

Orbits 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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