# HireAlpha vs OpenDuet > OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) to HireAlpha's 8.7 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet.md (~3,950 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet.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 - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-30 OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - HireAlpha: grade F, 8.7/100, rank #1229 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json - OpenDuet: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #962 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openduet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openduet.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### HireAlpha (F) Good for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies. Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install Watch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named. ### OpenDuet (D) Good for: A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account. Ahead on: - Reliability, 42 against 10 - Schema & documentation, 58 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 52 against 0 - Security & auth, 59 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 30 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 37 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 68 against 27 Also in its favour: - Free to start without a card - Open source Watch for: No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development ## Score by category | Category | Weight | HireAlpha | OpenDuet | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 42 | OpenDuet +32 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 58 | OpenDuet +48 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 52 | OpenDuet +52 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 59 | OpenDuet +59 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | OpenDuet +10 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 37 | OpenDuet +35 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 27 | 68 | OpenDuet +41 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **8.7 · F** | **49.5 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | HireAlpha | OpenDuet | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | HireAlpha | CopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) | | Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read | | Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-27 | | Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read | | Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read | | Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read | | Popularity | none | 1.6k stars | | Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none | ## Verdicts **HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity. **OpenDuet.** Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking. ## Before you call either ### HireAlpha 1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties. 2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP. 3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation. ### OpenDuet 1. Follow the README's Quick start (`bun install`, `bash scripts/start.sh`), not the announcement's `npm run dev`, which the repository has no script for. 2. Run `bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts` after `copilotkit project select`; the server reads `INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY`, not the `CPK_` key the CLI writes. 3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in `/settings/approvals` if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer. 4. To bring your own agent, register it as a `remote-ag-ui` Bot in `agents.yaml`; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit. 5. Set `COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or OpenDuet? OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are HireAlpha and OpenDuet open source? No open-source release is listed for HireAlpha. OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-openduet.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hirealpha", "b": "openduet"}`. 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[OpenDuet vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openduet-vs-wajo.md) ## Disclosure - HireAlpha 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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp