# Haven vs Town > Town scores 48.7 (D) to Haven's 22.2 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.md (~3,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.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 Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants. - 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 - Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.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. 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. ### Town (D) Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on: - Schema & documentation, 33 against 4 - Agent ergonomics, 49 against 6 - Security & auth, 79 against 13 - Maintenance & community, 60 against 35 - Transparency & trust, 63 against 51 Also in its favour: - Free to start without a card Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Haven | Town | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 35 | even | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 33 | Town +29 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 49 | Town +43 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 79 | Town +66 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 60 | Town +25 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 63 | Town +12 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **22.2 · F** | **48.7 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Haven | Town | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | Town.com, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-10-10 | | Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | | | 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. **Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is 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. ### Town 1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only. 2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run. 3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying. 4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope. 5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Town? Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "haven", "b": "town"}`. 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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.