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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Poke vs Tasker AI

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#1097 of 1190 Tasker AIDAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) · Platform F7.6/100#1184 of 1190

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 15
  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0
  • Security & auth, 24 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 31 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 45

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

Tasker AI F

Best for A person or small team who wants an assistant in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or email that runs recurring tasks across connected apps.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

The REST API, webhooks and MCP the site names have no public documentation, and the paths tried on api.tasker.ai answered 404.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPokeTasker AIEdge
Reliability16%205115Poke +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2420Poke +42
Agent ergonomics13%16.2300Poke +30
Security & auth14%17.5240Poke +24
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Poke +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8312Poke +29
Transparency & trust7%8.85845Poke +13
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 37.6/100F 7.6/100

Facts side by side

FactPokeTasker AI
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorThe Interaction Company of California Inc.DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MITClosed service under the Master Service Agreement of DAPI, Inc. doing business as Tasker AI, last updated 21 June 2026. The site says Tasker is open source; no public repository was found.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-06-25none
Terms last updated2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)1.5/5 (4)

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.

Tasker AI

Tasker AI is a freemium hosted assistant reached in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and email, with public plan prices from US$0. Its API, MCP and open-source claims couldn't be confirmed on 21 October 2026. No API documentation was found, and the npm package its API page tells developers to install doesn't exist.

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

Tasker AI

  1. Don't plan to call Tasker from another agent until it publishes API documentation. GET api.tasker.ai/v1/tasks returned 404.
  2. Don't run npx create-tasker@latest. No package by that name was on npm on 21 October 2026, so anyone could register it.
  3. Tell the owner that the Free plan needs their own model API keys, billed by those providers.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Tasker AI?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tasker AI's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

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Disclosure

Tasker AI 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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