Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Haven vs Talorys

Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do assistants that remember you.

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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

  • Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
  • Security & auth, 13 against 8

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.

Talorys F

Best for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 35
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 35

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHavenTalorysEdge
Reliability16%203541Talorys +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.240Haven +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.260Haven +6
Security & auth14%17.5138Haven +5
Payments & pricing10%12.53060Talorys +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83583Talorys +48
Transparency & trust7%8.85152Talorys +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 22.2/100F 28.9/100

Facts side by side

FactHavenTalorys
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHello Haven, Inc.Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of ServiceMIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-172026-10-12
Terms last updated2026-07-24no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-24no document linked
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
Popularitynone978 npm/wk

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.

Talorys

Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

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.

Talorys

  1. Run npx create-talorys@latest with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
  2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
  3. Update with npx create-talorys@latest update. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Talorys?

Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Are Haven and Talorys open source?

No open-source release is listed for Haven. Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).

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Disclosure

Talorys 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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