# Poke vs Town (slim)

> Town scores 48.7 (D) to Poke's 37.6 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-13

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Poke: F 37.6, rank #960 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.min.md
- Town: D 48.7, rank #834 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.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 35; Schema & documentation, 42 against 33.
- Town, good for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 49 against 30; Security & auth, 79 against 24; Maintenance & community, 60 against 31; Transparency & trust, 63 against 58. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Poke | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 51 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 42 | 33 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 30 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 24 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 31 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Poke | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Town.com, Inc. |
| 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 Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-06-25 | 2026-10-10 |
| 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 |  |