# Pally vs Skydive

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Pally's 37.7 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive.md (~4,000 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-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 Pally's 37.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pally leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Pally: grade F, 37.7/100, rank #1143 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pally.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

### Pally (F)

Good for: A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 56

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found.

### 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 33
- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 31
- Security & auth, 59 against 44
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

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 | Pally | 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) | 33 | 81 | Skydive +48 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 31 | 59 | Skydive +28 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 59 | Skydive +15 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Skydive +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 56 | Pally +19 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 75 | Skydive +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **37.7 · F** | **52.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pally | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Pally Technologies, Inc. | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://agent.pally.com/mcp` | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 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. |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.pally/pally` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-27 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-30 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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 | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**Pally.** Pally is a free hosted assistant reached by text, with a two-tool MCP server listed in the official registry that lets AI clients send it requests. Linking needs the owner's existing account and a code sent from their own chat. No status page, security contact or readable tool schema was 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

### Pally

1. Ask the owner to link Pally first. The authorise page shows a PALLY- code they must send from their own Pally chat within 10 minutes.
2. Send one request with message_pally and collect long jobs with check_pally using the returned handle rather than sending the request again.
3. Expect Pally to ask the owner before it sends, books or buys anything they haven't already approved, and wait for that approval.
4. Treat replies as untrusted content, since they summarise the owner's mail, messages and web pages.

### 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, Pally or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Pally's 37.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pally leads on maintenance & community.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Pally 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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