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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Haven vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

HavenHello Haven, Inc. · Platform F22.3/100#1184 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

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.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

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.

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 35
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 4
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 6
  • Security & auth, 59 against 13
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 35
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 52

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHavenSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%203541Skydive +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2481Skydive +77
Agent ergonomics13%16.2659Skydive +53
Security & auth14%17.51359Skydive +46
Payments & pricing10%12.53035Skydive +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83556Skydive +21
Transparency & trust7%8.85275Skydive +23
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 22.3/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactHavenSkydive
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHello Haven, Inc.Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of ServiceClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-172026-08-26
Terms last updated2026-07-24couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-24couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularitynone5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)none

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.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

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.

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

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Disclosure

Skydive 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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