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(Cursor)", "vendorUrl": "https://x.ai/bot", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Grok Bot is an agent app in which named Bots work on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, files and a terminal, use connected apps and websites, run routines, and can claim their own email address.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json", "license": "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).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign in with a Cursor account, or with Sign in with Grok for a Grok Business seat, and can link a SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription for usage (https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/plans.md). Connected apps authorise through each provider's OAuth, and Google sees the app as Grok (https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/connect-plugins.md). No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for sending a Bot a task was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Included with Cursor Pro ($20 a month), Pro+ ($60), Ultra ($200) and Cursor Teams seats, or through a linked SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy or X Premium+ subscription, or a Grok Business seat. Usage resets weekly, on-demand usage beyond it is billed through Cursor, and a free trial is a usage credit with a 7-day window (https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/plans.md and https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/pricing.md). The iOS app sells Pro at $25.99, Pro+ at $77.99 and Ultra at $259.99 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grok-bot/id6794501026), checked 12 October 2026.", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found in the Grok Bot docs, checked 12 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://cursor.com/docs/grok-bot.md", "llmsTxt": "https://cursor.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "browser.hosted", "email.send", "email.inbound", "calendar.write", "agent.multi-agent", "memory.user", "notify.push" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "llms-txt", "status-page", "security-txt", "enterprise", "ios" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 24.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 980, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 22, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 10, "security": 14, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.", "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.", "strengths": [ "Each risky action can be allowed once, always allowed or denied, and an Auto Review model checks risky actions before they run.", "Connector OAuth tokens stay on Cursor's backend and never reach the Bot's computer.", "Anysphere holds ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001 certifications with Grok Bot in the current scope.", "status.cursor.com has a dedicated Grok Bot component with dated incident history.", "Every docs and help page is served as Markdown, indexed from cursor.com/llms.txt." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.", "At least seven Grok Bot incidents of an hour or more between 3 September and 6 October 2026, the longest 6 hours 30 minutes.", "All of one person's Bots share one computer, which the terms say is not a security boundary.", "Audit logs, action recording and network controls are Enterprise only.", "No SLA and no Grok Bot changelog found." ], "agentNotes": [ "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.", "Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.", "Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.", "Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 24.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 30, "schema": 10, "security": 14, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 87 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/grok-bot" }, "sameCompany": [ "cursor-cli" ], "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cursor Pro (includes Grok Bot)", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "Weekly Grok Bot usage below Pro+. $25.99 through the iOS app." }, { "item": "Cursor Ultra (includes Grok Bot)", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "Highest weekly Grok Bot usage. $259.99 through the iOS app." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Anysphere, Inc.", "domain": "cursor.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-12-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cursor.com/terms/grok-bot", "privacy": "https://cursor.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cursor.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Grok Bot Terms are dated 12 October 2026. The Cursor privacy policy (last updated 11 October 2026) names Anysphere, Inc.", "cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt prefers reports through github.com/getcursor/cursor/security, with security-reports@cursor.com as a secondary contact. It has no Expires line, which RFC 9116 requires. The site's tracker reads a file with a Contact and no Expires as valid, as on the Cursor CLI listing.", "status.cursor.com has a Grok Bot component and lists a resolved incident affecting Cloud Agents and Grok Bot sessions.", "No Grok Bot changelog was found on cursor.com. x.ai/bot and grokbot.com returned 403 or reset the connection.", "The legal entity behind the x.ai/bot page and the App Store seller (X Corp.) differ from the terms' contracting party. The relationship was not established from a first-hand page." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.json", "live": { "slug": "grok-bot", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cursor.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T22:30:03.434948966Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cursor.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:47:24.776638334Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bd4db29401a6" }, { "url": "https://cursor.com/en-US/terms/grok-bot", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:47:22.814233259Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d217407109c9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T22:30:03.434948966Z" } }, "answer": "Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "talorys", "name": "Talorys", "vendor": "Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/rociiu/talorys", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Talorys is an open-source, single-user personal AI assistant that its owner deploys into their own Cloudflare account with one command. It chats, keeps editable memories, and manages tasks, notes, projects, reminders and scheduled routines.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.json", "repo": "https://github.com/rociiu/talorys", "license": "MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "create-talorys" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The installer signs in to Cloudflare through Wrangler's OAuth flow, or uses an API token with Workers Scripts, Pages, Workers AI and Account Settings permissions. The owner password is hashed locally with PBKDF2-SHA256 and stored as a Worker secret. The web app uses an HttpOnly session cookie, and every non-GET request needs an x-talorys-request header and a same-origin Origin (https://github.com/rociiu/talorys/blob/main/docs/security.md). There is no API key, MCP server or signup.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT-licensed, designed to fit the Cloudflare Workers Free plan, including a daily Workers AI allocation. On a paid Cloudflare plan, use beyond the included amounts is billed by Cloudflare (https://github.com/rociiu/talorys#7-what-is-free-and-what-may-cost-money).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payment protocol. Talorys has no billing of its own, checked 12 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 978, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/rociiu/talorys/tree/main/docs", "capabilities": [ "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "memory.user", "memory.search", "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "notify.in-app" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "free", "typescript", "cloudflare" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "disclosure": "Talorys 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 28.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 976, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 41, "schema": 0, "security": 8, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.", "bestFor": "A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.", "disclosure": "Talorys 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.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, and no telemetry, analytics or tracking, stated in the README and confirmed in the code.", "Destructive tools need confirmation in the owner's latest message, enforced in code, and scheduled runs get read-only tools.", "SECURITY.md with private reporting, a 3-business-day acknowledgement target and a threat model.", "Designed to fit Cloudflare's Workers Free plan, with nothing to buy from Talorys." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.", "First released on 10 October 2026 and still pre-1.0 at 0.1.5.", "No changelog or breaking-change notes.", "No mail, calendar, booking, payment or messaging connections in the code." ], "agentNotes": [ "Run `npx create-talorys@latest` with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.", "Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.", "Update with `npx create-talorys@latest update`. Only the latest version gets security fixes." ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 28.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 41, "schema": 0, "security": 8, "transparency": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "npx create-talorys@latest # Node.js 22+, signs in to Cloudflare and deploys into your account" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.memory", "tool": "https://letme.dev/talorys" }, "sameCompany": [ "github-mcp-server", "github-copilot-cli" ], "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/rociiu/talorys/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "No company, terms of service or privacy policy. The MIT licence names The Talorys contributors, and Cloudflare's terms and privacy policy cover the hosting.", "Security reports go through GitHub private vulnerability reporting per SECURITY.md. There is no security.txt.", "There is no hosted endpoint. Each install answers on the owner's own pages.dev address.", "GitHub star count was not checked because the GitHub API was not available to us." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.json", "live": { "slug": "talorys", "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "create-talorys", "version": "0.1.5", "seenAt": "2026-10-12T22:32:28.340613655Z" } ], "githubStars": 892, "npmWeekly": 978, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T22:32:29.267294141Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor)", "b": "Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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).", "b": "MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "978 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Talorys?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Grok Bot. Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).", "question": "Are Grok Bot and Talorys open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 10 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 14 against 8", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 52" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.", "slug": "grok-bot", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 41 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 56" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.", "slug": "talorys", "watchFor": "No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.memory", "name": "Assistants that remember you" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "GAIA vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-natura.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-talorys.json", "title": "GAIA vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Haven vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Instinct vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-talorys.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Leon vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Lindy vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-talorys.json", "title": "nanobot vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-talorys.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Dots vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Pally vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Talorys vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-talorys.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-talorys" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 11, "edge": "talorys", "grok-bot": 30, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "talorys": 41, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "grok-bot", "grok-bot": 10, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "talorys": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "grok-bot": 0, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "talorys": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "grok-bot", "grok-bot": 14, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "talorys": 8, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "talorys", "grok-bot": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "talorys": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "talorys", "grok-bot": 56, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "talorys": 83, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "grok-bot", "grok-bot": 65, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "talorys": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do assistants that remember you.", "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.", "talorys": "Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys.min.md" }, "markdown": "Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do assistants that remember you.\n\n- Grok Bot: grade F, 24.4/100, rank #980 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json\n- Talorys: grade F, 28.9/100, rank #976 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Grok Bot (F)\n\nGood for: People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 10 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 14 against 8\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 52\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.\n\n### Talorys (F)\n\nGood for: A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 41 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | Talorys | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 41 | Talorys +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 0 | Grok Bot +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 8 | Grok Bot +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Talorys +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 83 | Talorys +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 52 | Grok Bot +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **24.4 · F** | **28.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grok Bot | Talorys |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor) | Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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). | MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | none | 978 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Talorys.** Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Grok Bot\n\n1. 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.\n2. Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.\n3. Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.\n4. Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine.\n\n### Talorys\n\n1. Run `npx create-talorys@latest` with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.\n2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.\n3. Update with `npx create-talorys@latest update`. Only the latest version gets security fixes.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Talorys?\n\nTalorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Grok Bot leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Grok Bot and Talorys open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Grok Bot. Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-talorys.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"grok-bot\", \"b\": \"talorys\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare grok-bot talorys`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Grok Bot or Talorys\n\n- [AstrBot vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [GAIA vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-natura.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-wajo.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys.md)\n- [GAIA vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Haven vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Instinct vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-talorys.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Leon vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Lindy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.md)\n- [nanobot vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-talorys.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Dots vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-talorys.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Pally vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Poke vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-talorys.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Talorys vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Talorys vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Talorys vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-talorys.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- 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.\n- Talorys competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. 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