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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Orbits vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

OrbitsNemus AI, Inc. · Platform F15.7/100#1209 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

Orbits F

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

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No public agent API, as llms.txt states.

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0
  • Security & auth, 59 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 44

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOrbitsSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%201541Skydive +26
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21081Skydive +71
Agent ergonomics13%16.2059Skydive +59
Security & auth14%17.5059Skydive +59
Payments & pricing10%12.52035Skydive +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85456Skydive +2
Transparency & trust7%8.84475Skydive +31
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 15.7/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactOrbitsSkydive
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorNemus AI, Inc.Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.).Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-132026-08-26
Terms last updatedno date givencouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno date givencouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularitynone5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews1.5/5 (4)none

Verdicts

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.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

Before you call either

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.

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Orbits or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.

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Disclosure

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.

Skydive 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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