# Poke vs Tasker AI > Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Tasker AI's 7.6 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai.md (~3,600 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai.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: 2026-10-21 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. - Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #1101 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json - Tasker AI: grade F, 7.6/100, rank #1191 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tasker-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tasker-ai.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1006 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 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) Good for: A person or small team who wants an assistant in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or email that runs recurring tasks across connected apps. 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 | Category | Weight | Poke | Tasker AI | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 15 | Poke +36 | | 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 | 0 | Poke +24 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Poke +10 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 2 | Poke +29 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 45 | Poke +13 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | | | **Total** | | **37.6 · F** | **7.6 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Poke | Tasker AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | DAPI, Inc. (dba Tasker AI) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | | | Auth | API key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT | Closed 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 documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | 2026-06-25 | none | | Terms last updated | 2026-03-17 | | | Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-11 | | | 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 | | | Agent reviews | 1.8/5 (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. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tasker-ai.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "poke", "b": "tasker-ai"}`. 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