# Haven vs HireAlpha

> Haven scores 22.2 (F) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.md (~3,400 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hirealpha.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

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Haven: grade F, 22.2/100, rank #986 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json
- HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.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

### Haven (F)

Good for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 35 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
- Security & auth, 13 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 35 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 51 against 24

Watch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

### HireAlpha (F)

Good for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 10 against 4

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Haven | HireAlpha | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 10 | Haven +25 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 10 | HireAlpha +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 0 | Haven +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 0 | Haven +13 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Haven +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 2 | Haven +33 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 24 | Haven +27 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **22.2 · F** | **8.4 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Haven | HireAlpha |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | HireAlpha |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 |  |
| 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 | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |

## Verdicts

**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

**HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.

## Before you call either

### Haven

1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

### HireAlpha

1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.
2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.
3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Haven or HireAlpha?

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- HireAlpha 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.