# Grok Bot vs Orchid

> Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) to Orchid's 20.2 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai.md (~3,400 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-13

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Grok Bot: grade F, 24.4/100, rank #984 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json
- Orchid: grade F, 20.2/100, rank #992 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.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

### Grok Bot (F)

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

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 14 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 56 against 24
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 60

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

### Orchid (F)

Good for: A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 50 against 30

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | Orchid | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 50 | Orchid +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 0 | Grok Bot +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 10 | Grok Bot +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 24 | Grok Bot +32 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 60 | Grok Bot +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **24.4 · F** | **20.2 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Grok Bot | Orchid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor) | Zero Email, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed 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 Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | none |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 |  |
| 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.

**Orchid.** Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.

## 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.

### Orchid

1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.
2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.
3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Orchid?

Grok Bot scores 24.4 (F) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability.


## For agents

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

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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.
- Orchid 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.