# Instinct vs Talorys (slim)

> Talorys scores 28.9 (F) to Instinct's 7.3 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Talorys scores 28.9 (F) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Instinct: F 7.3, rank #993 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.min.md
- Talorys: F 28.9, rank #976 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.min.md
- Instinct, good for People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone.
- Talorys, good for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account. Ahead on Reliability, 41 against 10; Security & auth, 8 against 3; Payments & pricing, 60 against 0; Maintenance & community, 83 against 2. Also Open source.

| Category | Instinct | Talorys |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 10 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 0 | 0 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 0 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 3 | 8 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 2 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Instinct | Talorys |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) | Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors |
| 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). | MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | none | 978 npm/wk |