# Poke vs Wajo (Fo)

> Wajo scores 43.9 (E) to Poke's 37.6 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- 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
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #907 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.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 30
- Maintenance & community, 31 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 47

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

### Wajo (Fo) (E)

Good for: An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 42
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 30
- Security & auth, 38 against 24

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No status page, changelog or security contact found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Poke | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 30 | Poke +21 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 74 | Wajo (Fo) +32 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 30 | 68 | Wajo (Fo) +38 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 24 | 38 | Wajo (Fo) +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 3 | Poke +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 47 | Poke +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **37.6 · F** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Poke | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable 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 Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| 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 |  |

## 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.

**Wajo (Fo).** Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

## 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`

### Wajo (Fo)

1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Wajo (Fo)?

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Wajo (Fo) 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.