# HireAlpha vs Zo Computer

> Zo Computer scores 43.1 (E) 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-zo-computer
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.md (~3,600 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.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

Zo Computer scores 43.1 (E) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. 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
- Zo Computer: grade E, 43.1/100, rank #915 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zo-computer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zo-computer.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.

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it

Watch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.

### Zo Computer (E)

Good 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:
- Reliability, 15 against 10
- Schema & documentation, 73 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 34 against 0
- Security & auth, 37 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 60 against 24

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 | HireAlpha | Zo Computer | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 15 | Zo Computer +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 73 | Zo Computer +63 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 34 | Zo Computer +34 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 37 | Zo Computer +37 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Zo Computer +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 68 | Zo Computer +66 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 60 | Zo Computer +36 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **8.4 · F** | **43.1 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | HireAlpha | Zo Computer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | HireAlpha | Zo Computer Company |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | `https://api.zo.computer/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API 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. | Proprietary service under Zo Computer Company's terms of service |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-14 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-08-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-05-20 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |

## 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.

**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

### 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.

### Zo Computer

1. Send `POST https://api.zo.computer/zo/ask` with `Authorization: Bearer zo_sk_...` and an `input` string. The owner creates the token under Settings > Advanced
2. Pass `persona_id` for a persona with a narrow tool set. The token itself carries every permission the owner has
3. Set `memory_mode` to `off` to keep workspace memory out of a request. The field is in the OpenAPI file and absent from the API guide
4. Do not retry `/zo/ask` blindly after a timeout. No idempotency key is documented and the request may already have sent a message
5. Append `.md` to any guide or reference URL for Markdown

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, HireAlpha or Zo Computer?

Zo Computer scores 43.1 (E) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Can an agent call HireAlpha and Zo Computer without installing anything?

Yes. HireAlpha has a hosted endpoint at https://hirealpha.chat/api/public and Zo Computer at https://api.zo.computer/mcp.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-zo-computer.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hirealpha", "b": "zo-computer"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hirealpha zo-computer`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zo-computer.json

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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.