# HireAlpha vs Dots (slim)

> Dots scores 28.3 (F) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do assistants reached by message.

- HireAlpha: F 8.4, rank #1005 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.min.md
- Dots: F 28.3, rank #980 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.min.md
- HireAlpha, good for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies. Ahead on Reliability, 10 against 3; Payments & pricing, 20 against 10. Also No key needed to call it; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Dots, good for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 41 against 10; Agent ergonomics, 22 against 0; Security & auth, 58 against 0; Maintenance & community, 38 against 2; Transparency & trust, 31 against 24.

| Category | HireAlpha | Dots |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 10 | 3 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 10 | 41 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 22 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 2 | 38 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 24 | 31 |

| Fact (where they differ) | HireAlpha | Dots |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | HireAlpha | OpenAI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |