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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

HireAlpha vs Zapia

Zapia scores 17.3 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation. Both do assistants reached by message.

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HireAlphaHireAlpha · Platform F8.4/100#1005 of 1010 ZapiaBrainlogic AI S.A.S. · Platform F17.3/100#995 of 1010

Which one, for what

HireAlpha F

Best for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 10 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.

Zapia F

Best for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 15 against 10
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 59 against 24

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHireAlphaZapiaEdge
Reliability16%201015Zapia +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2100HireAlpha +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.503Zapia +3
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Zapia +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8256Zapia +54
Transparency & trust7%8.82459Zapia +35
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 8.4/100F 17.3/100

Facts side by side

FactHireAlphaZapia
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHireAlphaBrainlogic AI S.A.S.
Hosted endpointhttps://hirealpha.chat/api/publicno (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed 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 Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-10-12
Terms last updatedno 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.

Zapia

Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location was found.

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.

Zapia

  1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access.
  2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or Zapia?

Zapia scores 17.3 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HireAlpha leads on schema & documentation.

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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.

Zapia 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.

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