Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run
Haven vs Zo Computer
Zo Computer scores 43.1 (E) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on reliability. Both do assistant proactive.
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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
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.
Best for One person who wants a hosted assistant with its own Linux machine, reachable by text message and chat apps, and who accepts that the assistant acts on connected accounts without a documented approval step.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 73 against 4
- Agent ergonomics, 34 against 6
- Security & auth, 37 against 13
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 60 against 51
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
Watch for
The access token for the API and MCP endpoint grants full access to the workspace, with no scoped or read-only token documented
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Haven | Zo Computer | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 35 | 15 | Haven +20 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 4 | 73 | Zo Computer +69 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 6 | 34 | Zo Computer +28 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 13 | 37 | Zo Computer +24 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 40 | Zo Computer +10 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 35 | 68 | Zo Computer +33 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 51 | 60 | Zo Computer +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | F 22.2/100 | E 43.1/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Haven | Zo Computer |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | Zo Computer Company |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://api.zo.computer/mcp |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Zo Computer Company's terms of service |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | 2025-08-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | 2026-05-20 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | 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.
Zo Computer
Zo publishes an OpenAPI file, Markdown docs, plan prices and a named list of the providers that receive user content. One access token grants full access to the workspace, no approval step before sending or buying was found in the reviewed docs, and no status page, rate limit or SLA is published.
Before you call either
Haven
- Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
- Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
- Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
- Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
- Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.
Zo Computer
- Send
POST https://api.zo.computer/zo/askwithAuthorization: Bearer zo_sk_...and aninputstring. The owner creates the token under Settings > Advanced - Pass
persona_idfor a persona with a narrow tool set. The token itself carries every permission the owner has - Set
memory_modetooffto keep workspace memory out of a request. The field is in the OpenAPI file and absent from the API guide - Do not retry
/zo/askblindly after a timeout. No idempotency key is documented and the request may already have sent a message - Append
.mdto any guide or reference URL for Markdown
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Zo Computer?
Zo Computer scores 43.1 (E) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on reliability.
Can an agent call Haven and Zo Computer without installing anything?
No hosted endpoint is listed for Haven. Zo Computer has a hosted endpoint at https://api.zo.computer/mcp.
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Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/haven-vs-zo-computer.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/haven.json·/api/v1/tools/zo-computer.json - From a terminal
anchor compare haven zo-computer(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "haven", "b": "zo-computer"}at/mcp, no key