# HireAlpha vs Tab > Tab scores 10.7 (F) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.md (~3,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.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 Tab scores 10.7 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do assistants reached by message. - HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json - Tab: grade F, 10.7/100, rank #1003 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tab-bot.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 ### HireAlpha (F) Good for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies. Ahead on: - Reliability, 10 against 5 - Schema & documentation, 10 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 20 against 0 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. ### Tab (F) Good for: A person who wants a texting assistant that browses, calls and buys with tight checkout controls. Ahead on: - Maintenance & community, 58 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 45 against 24 Watch for: Private beta behind a waitlist. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | HireAlpha | Tab | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 5 | HireAlpha +5 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 0 | HireAlpha +10 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 4 | Tab +4 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | HireAlpha +20 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 58 | Tab +56 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 45 | Tab +21 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **8.4 · F** | **10.7 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | HireAlpha | Tab | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | HireAlpha | Terrasoft, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | Paid | | 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. | Closed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Terms last updated | no document linked | | | Privacy policy last updated | | | | Customer content may train models | | | | Terms restrict automated access | | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | | | Terms or service can change without notice | | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | | ## 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. **Tab.** Tab is a private-beta texting assistant with a detailed security page on credential isolation and checkout binding, and a public updates page. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, and its privacy policy says nothing on training with user content. ## 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. ### Tab 1. Don't plan to call Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread. 2. Tell the owner that access needs a waitlist place and no price is published. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or Tab? Tab scores 10.7 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-tab-bot.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hirealpha", "b": "tab-bot"}`. 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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. - Tab 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.