# Poke vs Skydive (slim)

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Poke's 37.7 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Poke: F 37.7, rank #1144 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.min.md
- Skydive: D 52.1, rank #899 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md
- 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 41. Also No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them.
- Skydive, 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 Schema & documentation, 81 against 42; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 30; Security & auth, 59 against 24; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 56 against 31; Transparency & trust, 75 against 59. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Poke | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 51 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 42 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 30 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 24 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 31 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Poke | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-06-25 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-17 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-11 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | 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 | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.8/5 (4) | none |