# Instinct vs LearnHarness (slim)

> LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) to Instinct's 7.5 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Instinct: F 7.5, rank #1237 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.min.md
- LearnHarness: C 59.3, rank #648 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/learnharness.min.md
- Instinct, good for People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.
- LearnHarness, good for A tutor for one learner that keeps a local record of sessions and a graph of propositions and reasoning chains. Ahead on Reliability, 56 against 10; Schema & documentation, 63 against 0; Agent ergonomics, 60 against 0; Security & auth, 52 against 3; Payments & pricing, 60 against 0; Maintenance & community, 71 against 2; Transparency & trust, 60 against 55. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Instinct | LearnHarness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 10 | 56 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 0 | 63 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 3 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 2 | 71 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Instinct | LearnHarness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) | Amos Blomqvist |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026). | AGPL-3.0-only |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 4.2k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1.8/5 (4) | none |