# OpenDuet vs Poke

> OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) to Poke's 37.7 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- OpenDuet: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #962 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openduet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openduet.json
- Poke: grade F, 37.7/100, rank #1139 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### OpenDuet (D)

Good for: A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 58 against 42
- Agent ergonomics, 52 against 30
- Security & auth, 59 against 24
- Maintenance & community, 37 against 31
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 59

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

### Poke (F)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 51 against 42

Watch for: No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | OpenDuet | Poke | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 51 | Poke +9 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 42 | OpenDuet +16 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 30 | OpenDuet +22 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 24 | OpenDuet +35 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 37 | 31 | OpenDuet +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 59 | OpenDuet +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **49.5 · D** | **37.7 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | OpenDuet | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | CopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-27 | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 1.6k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**OpenDuet.** Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

**Poke.** Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

## Before you call either

### OpenDuet

1. Follow the README's Quick start (`bun install`, `bash scripts/start.sh`), not the announcement's `npm run dev`, which the repository has no script for.
2. Run `bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts` after `copilotkit project select`; the server reads `INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY`, not the `CPK_` key the CLI writes.
3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in `/settings/approvals` if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
4. To bring your own agent, register it as a `remote-ag-ui` Bot in `agents.yaml`; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
5. Set `COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

### Poke

1. POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`
2. Expect only `{"success": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, OpenDuet or Poke?

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability.

### Are OpenDuet and Poke open source?

OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement). No open-source release is listed for Poke.


## For agents

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

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