# Dots vs Town (slim)

> Town scores 48.7 (D) to Dots's 28.3 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Dots: F 28.3, rank #980 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.min.md
- Town: D 48.7, rank #834 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md
- Dots, 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 33.
- Town, good for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 3; Agent ergonomics, 49 against 22; Security & auth, 79 against 58; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 60 against 38; Transparency & trust, 63 against 31. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Dots | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 3 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 41 | 33 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 22 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 38 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 31 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Dots | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenAI | Town.com, Inc. |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |