# Skydive vs szn

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to szn's 7.8 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn.md (~3,850 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn.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: 2026-10-31

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.

- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json
- szn: grade F, 7.8/100, rank #1240 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/szn.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Skydive (D)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Skydive | szn | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 41 | 5 | Skydive +36 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 10 | Skydive +71 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 0 | Skydive +59 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 0 | Skydive +59 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 20 | Skydive +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 2 | Skydive +54 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 29 | Skydive +46 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **7.8 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Skydive | szn |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Create, Inc. | Nomadic Futures |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed 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 documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-26 | none |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-03-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 5.5k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.8/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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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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