Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Haven vs Orbits

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.

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Which one, for what

Haven F

Best 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 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
  • Security & auth, 13 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Transparency & trust, 51 against 43

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.

Orbits F

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

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 10 against 4
  • Maintenance & community, 54 against 35

Watch for

No public agent API, as llms.txt states.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHavenOrbitsEdge
Reliability16%203515Haven +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2410Orbits +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.260Haven +6
Security & auth14%17.5130Haven +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Haven +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83554Orbits +19
Transparency & trust7%8.85143Haven +8
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 22.2/100F 15.6/100

Facts side by side

FactHavenOrbits
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHello Haven, Inc.Nemus AI, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of ServiceClosed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-172026-10-13
Terms last updated2026-07-24
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-24
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot 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.

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

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.

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, Haven or Orbits?

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community.

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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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