{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "orchid-ai", "name": "Orchid", "vendor": "Zero Email, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://orchid.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.json", "license": "Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Google sign-in, and Orchid never asks for a password (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe). The terms say integrations use OAuth 2.0 with the minimum permissions needed, and non-Google integrations go through Composio (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "\"Orchid is paid, from $29.99/mo, flat, with no free tier and no meter on your messages\" (https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained, 14 September 2026). Students and YC founders get 3 months free, and Notion Mail switchers a free month. Current plan details are inside the app, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices when read on 14 October 2026.", "priceSummary": "$29.99 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on orchid.ai, llms.txt, the pricing post or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "llmsTxt": "https://orchid.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "status-page", "llms-txt" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Orchid 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 20.2, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1193, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1244, "categoryRank": 37, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 24, "payments": 10, "reliability": 50, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.", "bestFor": "A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.", "disclosure": "Orchid 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.", "strengths": [ "Public status page with component history, one incident from August to October 2026.", "Drafts and calendar holds wait for the owner's approval by default, per the safety post.", "The privacy policy names twelve subprocessors by role, model providers included.", "Model providers are contractually barred from training on customer data." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "The privacy policy allows training a personal model on the owner's data, while the safety post says Orchid never trains.", "No free tier, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October 2026.", "No security.txt, security contact or certification of its own found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.", "Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.", "Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 20.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 24, "payments": 10, "reliability": 50, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-14", "maintenance": "2026-10-14", "payments": "2026-10-14", "reliability": "2026-10-14", "schema": "2026-10-14", "security": "2026-10-14", "transparency": "2026-10-14" }, "last": "2026-10-14", "lastMoved": "2026-10-30", "oldest": "2026-10-14", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/orchid-ai" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Orchid", "unit": "month", "usd": 29.99, "note": "\"From $29.99/mo\", billed monthly, per the pricing post of 14 September 2026." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zero Email, Inc.", "domain": "orchid.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://orchid.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.orchid.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms name Zero Email, Inc. (\"Orchid\") and were last updated on 16 January 2026. The privacy policy was last updated on 14 September 2026.", "orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No changelog was found; the blog carries product posts.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 for orchid.ai, which predates the product." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.json", "live": { "slug": "orchid-ai", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.orchid.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T04:36:04.747900844Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:38:06.633946217Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://orchid.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:08:23.339078143Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "orchid.ai", "registered": "2017-12-16", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/orchid.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:55:26.608770004Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:44:51.951158548Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:44:51.951158548Z", "fingerprint": "9dc94f936d34" }, { "url": "https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:44:54.097288886Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c4456246bc4c" }, { "url": "https://orchid.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:44:56.121698894Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4cd058728c8d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-31T04:36:04.747900844Z" } }, "answer": "Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "skydive", "name": "Skydive", "vendor": "Create, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.skydive.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Skydive, from Create, Inc., hosts AI agents that each get a cloud Linux computer, file-based memory and connected apps. People reach them on the web, in Slack, by email, SMS or iMessage, in a Mac app or from a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json", "license": "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.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "skydive-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes a bearer API key (sky_live_...) with a `use` or `edit` scope, bound to one agent or to the account (https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/overview.md). The CLI uses that key or a browser device sign-in, or SKYDIVE_SESSION_TOKEN for non-interactive use (https://www.skydive.com/docs/cli/authentication.md). People sign in to the web app with Google, Slack or a password (https://www.skydive.com/docs/changelog.md). Connected services use OAuth, MCP OAuth or stored secrets injected by Skydive's proxy.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at US$0 a month, pay as you go with no card, starting with a small amount of credit. Starter is US$20 a month and Team US$200 a month, each flat per workspace with unlimited seats and agents, and the fee becomes usage credit 1:1. Enterprise is custom. Model usage is passed through at cost with no markup (the vendor's claim), and compute and metered services also draw the balance. A dedicated iMessage line is US$100 a month per agent (https://www.skydive.com/docs/account/pricing.md, checked 31 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs llms.txt, the blog llms.txt, the OpenAPI document or the site's JS bundle, checked 31 October 2026. Usage is paid from a prepaid credit balance by card through the billing page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 5465, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-31" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/get-started/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.skydive.com/v1/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "assistant.memory", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.proactive", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent", "browser.hosted", "email.inbound", "email.send", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "messaging.inbound", "web.search", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "no-card", "llms-txt", "openapi", "api-key", "cli", "status-page", "security-txt", "mcp-client", "slack", "email", "imessage", "sms", "macos", "desktop-app", "trains-on-data-by-default", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-26", "graded": true, "disclosure": "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 899, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1244, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-31" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claims, -5 for the three below together, read by us on 31 October 2026. 1) Training. The pricing page FAQ answers \"Is my data used to train models?\" with \"No. Your data is never used to train models, ours or anyone else's\", and the home page's security section says \"your data is never used to train models\", while the privacy policy (section 4) and the Terms of Service (9.2), both of 29 July 2026, say training on customer content \"is on by default\" with a workspace or organisation opt-out. Alone this would be Lindy's -3 for a pricing-page answer the vendor's own pages contradict (https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js, https://www.skydive.com/privacy).", "2) Certification, one of the three. The home page says \"SOC 2 compliant\" twice and the site footer shows a badge with the alt text \"SOC 2 Type 1\", while the DPA (7.2) says that as of 29 July 2026 Create is pursuing SOC 2 compliance and does not represent that any SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report or certification has been completed, and the privacy policy says Create is pursuing SOC 2. No report or trust centre was found. Alone this would be the ScaleDown and Nevermined -2 (https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js, https://www.skydive.com/dpa).", "3) Secrets, one of the three. The Secrets, Network controls and Permissioning pages say the agent never sees a secret, that it \"was never in the sandbox to begin with\" and that the design \"removes the whole class of risk\", and the pricing FAQ says secrets are \"never shown to the model\". The platform CLI, which the docs say is inside every agent's sandbox, lists `secrets get` to read a value and `secrets download --plain` to print raw values, and the OpenAPI description of setAgentSecret says the value becomes an environment variable in the sandbox. Alone this would be at least the -2 Picoclaw and OpenInstinct took for a security claim the product doesn't keep. None of the three is corrected, so the deduction is the top of the range for misleading claims rather than -7, as Self Agent Vault and AgentOS folded several claims into one deduction (https://www.skydive.com/docs/integrations/secrets.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/capabilities/network.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/cli/secrets.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/platform-cli.md, https://api.skydive.com/v1/openapi.json)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "disclosure": "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.", "strengths": [ "A public OpenAPI 3.1 document covers all 11 API operations, and llms.txt indexes a Markdown copy of every docs page.", "API keys carry a read-only `use` or an `edit` scope, can be bound to one agent, are stored hashed and revoke immediately.", "Owners and admins get an always-on, exportable audit log covering secret access, API-key changes and sign-ins, per the Roles page.", "The privacy policy names 22 subprocessors and gives retention periods of 30, 60 and 90 days and 12 months.", "Free workspaces start with credit and no card, and per-token model rates are published at cost (the vendor's claim)." ], "weaknesses": [ "The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.", "Several major incidents in 90 days, among them a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage on 28 and 29 October 2026, per status.skydive.com.", "The home page and pricing FAQ say data is never used to train models, while the privacy policy turns training on by default.", "The docs say agents never see secrets, but the platform CLI inside the sandbox can print raw secret values.", "The site says SOC 2 compliant and shows a SOC 2 Type 1 badge, while the DPA says no SOC 2 report has been completed." ], "agentNotes": [ "Send tasks with `skydive chat -p \"...\" --agent \u003cid\u003e --json` and pass `--conversation \u003cid\u003e` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.", "Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.", "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.", "Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.", "Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-31", "maintenance": "2026-10-31", "payments": "2026-10-31", "reliability": "2026-10-31", "schema": "2026-10-31", "security": "2026-10-31", "transparency": "2026-10-31" }, "last": "2026-10-31", "oldest": "2026-10-31", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g skydive-cli", "http": "curl https://api.skydive.com/v1/agents \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SKYDIVE_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.memory", "tool": "https://letme.dev/skydive" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, US$20 of usage credit a month. Yearly US$240 with US$264 of credit." }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, US$200 of usage credit a month. Yearly US$2,400 with US$2,640 of credit." }, { "item": "Dedicated iMessage line", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "Per agent, an add-on that grants no usage credit. A shared pool line is free." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Create, Inc.", "domain": "skydive.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-05-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.skydive.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.skydive.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.skydive.com", "changelog": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-31", "notes": [ "skydive.com was registered 4 May 1993 and last changed 2 July 2026 (Amazon Registrar); getskydive.com was registered 21 May 2026 (Realtime Register) and redirects to www.skydive.com (https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/skydive.com).", "The DPA (https://www.skydive.com/dpa, last updated 29 July 2026) applies only to customers with an executed Order Form, and gives privacy@skydive.com and security@skydive.com as contacts.", "The privacy policy names subprocessors including E2B, Vercel, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Exa, Pierre, AWS, Cloudflare, Slack, AgentMail, Linq, Resend, Segment, PostHog, Sentry, Stripe, Metronome and Intercom, and points to skydive.com/subprocessors.", "robots.txt on www.skydive.com allows all; the docs robots.txt sends `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.skydive.com/robots.txt returns 404.", "The home page and legal pages render client-side; their text was read from https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.json", "live": { "slug": "skydive", "probe": { "target": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-31T04:40:46.228598891Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 322, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 331, "p95ms24h": 454, "samples24h": 26, "samples30d": 26, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 26, "ok": 26 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.skydive.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T04:36:12.356112019Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-31T04:40:46.228598891Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Zero Email, Inc.", "b": "Create, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).", "b": "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.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-08-26", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-01-16", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "5.5k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Orchid or Skydive?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 50 against 41" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.", "slug": "orchid-ai", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 10", "Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 24", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 60" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "skydive", "watchFor": "The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.messaging", "name": "Assistants reached by message" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "asaply vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-skydive.json", "title": "asaply vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Asmi vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Asmi vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Orchid", "url": 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Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-skydive.json", "title": "folk vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-skydive.json", "title": "GAIA vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-skydive" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-skydive.json", "title": "nanobot vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-skydive.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Dots vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-skydive.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openduet-vs-skydive.json", "title": "OpenDuet vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openduet-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-skydive.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Poke vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-skydive.json", "title": "QwenPaw vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Atticus vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Atticus vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "DeepTutor vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-skydive.json", "title": "DeepTutor vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Hark Pro vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Hark Pro vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "LearnHarness vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-skydive.json", "title": "LearnHarness vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Orchid vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn.json", "title": "Skydive vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Skydive vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Skydive vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tasker-ai.json", "title": "Skydive vs Tasker AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tasker-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Skydive vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-town.json", "title": "Skydive vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Skydive vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Skydive vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Skydive vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Skydive vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Claude Duet vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Leon vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Lobby vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Lobby vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Orchid vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Pally vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 9, "edge": "orchid-ai", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "orchid-ai": 50, "skydive": 41, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 71, "edge": "skydive", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "orchid-ai": 10, "skydive": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 59, "edge": "skydive", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "orchid-ai": 0, "skydive": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 59, "edge": "skydive", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "orchid-ai": 0, "skydive": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "skydive", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "orchid-ai": 10, "skydive": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "skydive", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "orchid-ai": 24, "skydive": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "skydive", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "orchid-ai": 60, "skydive": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability. Both do assistants reached by message.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "orchid-ai": "Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive.min.md" }, "markdown": "Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability. Both do assistants reached by message.\n\n- Orchid: grade F, 20.2/100, rank #1193 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.json\n- 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\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Orchid (F)\n\nGood for: A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 50 against 41\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n### Skydive (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 24\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Orchid | Skydive | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 41 | Orchid +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 81 | Skydive +71 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 35 | Skydive +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 56 | Skydive +32 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 75 | Skydive +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **20.2 · F** | **52.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Orchid | Skydive |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Zero Email, Inc. | Create, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026). | 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. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-08-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-01-16 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Orchid.** Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Orchid\n\n1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.\n2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.\n3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it.\n\n### Skydive\n\n1. Send tasks with `skydive chat -p \"...\" --agent \u003cid\u003e --json` and pass `--conversation \u003cid\u003e` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.\n2. Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.\n3. 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.\n4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.\n5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Orchid or Skydive?\n\nSkydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Orchid's 20.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orchid leads on reliability.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-skydive.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"orchid-ai\", \"b\": \"skydive\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare orchid-ai skydive`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Orchid or Skydive\n\n- [asaply vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [asaply vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Asmi vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Asmi vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-skydive.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Boba vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Boba vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Boski vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Brea vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Brea vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Caddy vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Del vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Del vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-skydive.md)\n- [folk vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [GAIA vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Haven vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Instinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Lindy vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [nanobot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Dots vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [OpenDuet vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openduet-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Orbits vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Orbits vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Orchid vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-pally.md)\n- [Orchid vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Orchid vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-poke.md)\n- [Orchid vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Orchid vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-szn.md)\n- [Orchid vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Orchid vs Tasker AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-tasker-ai.md)\n- [Orchid vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Orchid vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.md)\n- [Orchid vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Orchid vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Orchid vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Boski vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Caddy vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Claude Duet vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-skydive.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.md)\n- [folk vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-skydive.md)\n- [GAIA vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Haven vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Instinct vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-skydive.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Leon vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Lindy vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-skydive.md)\n- [nanobot vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-skydive.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Dots vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-skydive.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-skydive.md)\n- [OpenDuet vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openduet-vs-skydive.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Poke vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-skydive.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Atticus vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Atticus vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-skydive.md)\n- [DeepTutor vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [DeepTutor vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Hark Pro vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Hark Pro vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-skydive.md)\n- [LearnHarness vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [LearnHarness vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Orchid vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Skydive vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Skydive vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tasker AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tasker-ai.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Skydive vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-town.md)\n- [Skydive vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Skydive vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Skydive vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Skydive vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Claude Duet vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-duet-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Leon vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Lobby vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Lobby vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Orchid vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Pally vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Orchid competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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