# Hark Pro vs Orbits

> Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) to Orbits's 15.6 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-19

Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Hark Pro: grade F, 21.6/100, rank #1123 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hark-pro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hark-pro.json
- Orbits: grade F, 15.6/100, rank #1141 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orbits.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 917 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Hark Pro (F)

Good for: Hark Pro is a personal assistant for web, iOS and Android.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 10 against 0
- Security & auth, 45 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.0 against 1.5 out of 5

Watch for: External API and MCP access were not verified

### Orbits (F)

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

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 0

Watch for: No public agent API, as llms.txt states.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hark Pro | Orbits | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |
| 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) | 10 | 0 | Hark Pro +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 0 | Hark Pro +45 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Hark Pro +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 0 | 54 | Orbits +54 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 43 | Orbits +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **21.6 · F** | **15.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hark Pro | Orbits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Hark Labs, Inc. | Nemus AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service; see governing terms and the access limitations below. | Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Hark Pro.** Free tier includes the assistant capabilities. External API and MCP access were not verified.

**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

### Hark Pro

1. Hand onboarding to the person using the Hark app.
2. Do not treat Hark Services integrations as an API for calling Hark.

### 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, Hark Pro or Orbits?

Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on maintenance & community.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- 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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