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

Orchid vs Zapia

Orchid scores 20.2 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 834 assistants comparisons

OrchidZero Email, Inc. · Platform F20.2/100#992 of 1010 ZapiaBrainlogic AI S.A.S. · Platform F17.3/100#995 of 1010

Which one, for what

Orchid F

Best for A founder or operator who wants Gmail and calendar triage by text with approval before anything leaves.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 50 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 10 against 0

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

Zapia F

Best for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 24

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOrchidZapiaEdge
Reliability16%205015Orchid +35
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2100Orchid +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.200even
Security & auth14%17.503Zapia +3
Payments & pricing10%12.51030Zapia +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82456Zapia +32
Transparency & trust7%8.86059Orchid +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 20.2/100F 17.3/100

Facts side by side

FactOrchidZapia
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorZero Email, Inc.Brainlogic AI S.A.S.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026).Closed service under Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-10-12
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updated
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver

Verdicts

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.

Zapia

Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location was found.

Before you call either

Orchid

  1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads.
  2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number.
  3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it.

Zapia

  1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access.
  2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Orchid or Zapia?

Orchid scores 20.2 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

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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.

Zapia 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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