# Poke vs Talorys

> Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Talorys's 28.9 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

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.

- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #958 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json
- Talorys: grade F, 28.9/100, rank #976 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/talorys.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/talorys.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Poke (F)

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
- 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Poke | Talorys | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 41 | Poke +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 0 | Poke +42 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 30 | 0 | Poke +30 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 24 | 8 | Poke +16 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Talorys +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 83 | Talorys +52 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 52 | Poke +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **37.6 · F** | **28.9 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Poke | Talorys |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Roc Yu (rociiu) and contributors |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT | MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-06-25 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-17 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-11 | no document linked |
| 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 |  |
| Popularity | none | 978 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.).


## For agents

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

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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.