# Lobby vs Orbits

> Orbits scores 15.6 (F) to Lobby's 11.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-orbits
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-orbits.md (~3,350 tokens)
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- 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
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-21

Orbits scores 15.6 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Lobby: grade F, 11.1/100, rank #1182 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lobby-os.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json
- Orbits: grade F, 15.6/100, rank #1163 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orbits.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1006 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Lobby (F)

Good for: A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools.

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.0 against 1.5 out of 5

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

### Orbits (F)

Good for: Families who want one shared assistant for calendars, lists, meals, chores and household email.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 2

Watch for: No public agent API, as llms.txt states.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Lobby | Orbits | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 54 | Orbits +52 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 43 | even |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **11.1 · F** | **15.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lobby | Orbits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Lobby OS, Inc. | Nemus AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. | Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| 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 |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 1.5/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Lobby.** Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026.

**Orbits.** Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found.

## Before you call either

### Lobby

1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner.
2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app.
3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say.

### Orbits

1. Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered.
2. Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Lobby or Orbits?

Orbits scores 15.6 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Lobby 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.
- Orbits 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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