# Grok Bot vs Poke (slim)

> Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) to Poke's 37.6 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do assistant proactive.

- Grok Bot: E 45.2, rank #893 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.min.md
- Poke: F 37.6, rank #955 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.min.md
- Grok Bot, good for A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 50 against 30; Security & auth, 68 against 24; Transparency & trust, 66 against 58.
- Poke, 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 40; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Maintenance & community, 31 against 20.

| Category | Grok Bot | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 51 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 40 | 42 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 30 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 24 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 20 | 31 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 66 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grok Bot | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Last release | none | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | 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 |