# Poke vs Zapia > Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Zapia's 17.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia.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 - Updated: 2026-10-13 Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message. - Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #960 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json - Zapia: grade F, 17.3/100, rank #995 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zapia.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 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 3 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 ### Zapia (F) Good for: Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app. Ahead on: - Maintenance & community, 56 against 31 Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Poke | Zapia | 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 | 3 | Poke +21 | | 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 | 56 | Zapia +25 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 59 | Zapia +1 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **37.6 · F** | **17.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Poke | Zapia | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Brainlogic AI S.A.S. | | 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 Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms. | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | 2026-06-25 | 2026-10-12 | | 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. **Zapia.** Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location 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` ### Zapia 1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access. 2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Zapia? Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zapia.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "poke", "b": "zapia"}`. 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[Poke vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-talorys.md) - [Talorys vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-zapia.md) ## Disclosure - Zapia 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.