# Dots vs Tomo

> Dots scores 28.3 (F) to Tomo's 13.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Dots: grade F, 28.3/100, rank #977 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json
- Tomo: grade F, 13.1/100, rank #989 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Dots (F)

Good for: A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 41 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 22 against 0
- Security & auth, 58 against 0

Watch for: Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

### Tomo (F)

Good for: People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 15 against 3
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 38
- Transparency & trust, 47 against 31

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Dots | Tomo | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 3 | 15 | Tomo +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 0 | Dots +41 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 22 | 0 | Dots +22 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 0 | Dots +58 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 38 | 54 | Tomo +16 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 47 | Tomo +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **28.3 · F** | **13.1 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Dots | Tomo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | OpenAI | Mapo Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read | Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| 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

**Dots.** Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

**Tomo.** Tomo is a hosted personal AI over iMessage and an iOS app, centred on goals, check-ins and reminders, with regular iOS releases since April 2026. No outside agent can call it, there's no free plan, and no status page, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## Before you call either

### Dots

1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

### Tomo

1. Don't plan to call Tomo from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, group chats it's added to and the iOS app.
2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Dots or Tomo?

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Tomo 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.