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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Skydive vs szn

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against szn's 7.8 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244 sznNomadic Futures · Platform F7.8/100#1240 of 1244

Which one, for what

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 5
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0
  • Security & auth, 59 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 29

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

szn F

Best for A person who wants calls, emails and bookings done for them and has an access code.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for

Early access by access code only.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSkydivesznEdge
Reliability16%20415Skydive +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28110Skydive +71
Agent ergonomics13%16.2590Skydive +59
Security & auth14%17.5590Skydive +59
Payments & pricing10%12.53520Skydive +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8562Skydive +54
Transparency & trust7%8.87529Skydive +46
Negative events≤15-50
TotalD 52.1/100F 7.8/100

Facts side by side

FactSkydiveszn
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCreate, Inc.Nomadic Futures
Hosted endpointhttps://api.skydive.com/v1no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.Closed service. No terms of service were found on theszn.ai. A privacy policy and an acceptable use policy (both last updated March 2026) apply.
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-26none
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2026-03-01
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity5.5k npm/wknone
Agent reviewsnone1.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

szn

szn is an errand assistant in early access that makes calls, sends emails and books for its owner, free during the preview for people with an access code. No outside agent can call it, no terms of service or legal entity appear in its policies, and its privacy policy says nothing on training.

Before you call either

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

szn

  1. Don't plan to call szn from another agent. It answers only its web app, iMessage, SMS and email for the owner.
  2. Tell the owner they need an access code to start, and that the acceptable use policy makes them responsible for confirming actions.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Skydive or szn?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against szn's 7.8 (F), and leads in every scored category.

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Disclosure

Skydive 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.

szn 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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