# Pally vs Poke (slim)

> Pally and Poke score within a point of each other for assistants that act in your accounts, 37.8 and 37.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Pally and Poke score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 37.8 (F) and 37.6 (F). Poke leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Pally: F 37.8, rank #956 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.min.md
- Poke: F 37.6, rank #958 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.min.md
- Pally, good for A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Ahead on Security & auth, 44 against 24; Maintenance & community, 75 against 31; Transparency & trust, 73 against 58. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Poke, 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 15; Schema & documentation, 42 against 33.

| Category | Pally | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 51 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 33 | 42 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 31 | 30 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 24 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 31 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pally | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Pally Technologies, Inc. | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://agent.pally.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Licence | Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026). | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| MCP registry | `com.pally/pally` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |