# Orbits vs Skydive

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Orbits's 15.7 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-skydive
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-skydive.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- 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: 2026-10-31

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.

- Orbits: grade F, 15.7/100, rank #1209 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orbits.json
- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Orbits (F)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Orbits | Skydive | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 41 | Skydive +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 81 | Skydive +71 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Skydive +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 56 | Skydive +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 44 | 75 | Skydive +31 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **15.7 · F** | **52.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Orbits | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Nemus AI, Inc. | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed 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 documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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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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