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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Poke vs Talorys

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do assistants that remember you.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 314 assistants comparisons

PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#958 of 993 TalorysRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributors · Platform F28.9/100#976 of 993

Which one, for what

Poke F

Best 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
  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0
  • Security & auth, 24 against 8
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 52

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Talorys F

Best for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 31

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPokeTalorysEdge
Reliability16%205141Poke +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2420Poke +42
Agent ergonomics13%16.2300Poke +30
Security & auth14%17.5248Poke +16
Payments & pricing10%12.53060Talorys +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83183Talorys +52
Transparency & trust7%8.85852Poke +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 37.6/100F 28.9/100

Facts side by side

FactPokeTalorys
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorThe Interaction Company of California Inc.Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MITMIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-06-252026-10-12
Terms last updated2026-03-17no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-11no document linked
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone978 npm/wk

Verdicts

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

Talorys

Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

Before you call either

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Talorys

  1. Run npx create-talorys@latest with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
  2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
  3. Update with npx create-talorys@latest update. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Talorys?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Talorys leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

Are Poke and Talorys open source?

No open-source release is listed for Poke. Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.).

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Disclosure

Talorys 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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