# Grok Bot vs Town

> Town scores 48.7 (D) to Grok Bot's 24.4 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- 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
- 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

### 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.

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

### Town (D)

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

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 35 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 33 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0
- Security & auth, 79 against 14

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 | Grok Bot | Town | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 35 | Town +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 33 | Town +23 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 49 | Town +49 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 14 | 79 | Town +65 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 60 | Town +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 63 | Grok Bot +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **24.4 · F** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Grok Bot | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor) | Town.com, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-10 |
| 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.

**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

### 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.

### 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, Grok Bot or Town?

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.


## For agents

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