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

Skydive vs Tab

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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 TabTerrasoft, Inc. · Platform F10.6/100#1229 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 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0
  • Security & auth, 59 against 4
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 0
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 44

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.

Tab F

Best for A person who wants a texting assistant that browses, calls and buys with tight checkout controls.

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

Private beta behind a waitlist.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSkydiveTabEdge
Reliability16%20415Skydive +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2810Skydive +81
Agent ergonomics13%16.2590Skydive +59
Security & auth14%17.5594Skydive +55
Payments & pricing10%12.5350Skydive +35
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85658Tab +2
Transparency & trust7%8.87544Skydive +31
Negative events≤15-50
TotalD 52.1/100F 10.6/100

Facts side by side

FactSkydiveTab
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCreate, Inc.Terrasoft, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.skydive.com/v1no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
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 under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-08-26none
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-09-02
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2026-09-02
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readnot found in the text
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.

Tab

Tab is a private-beta texting assistant with a detailed security page on credential isolation and checkout binding, and a public updates page. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, and its privacy policy says nothing on training with user content.

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.

Tab

  1. Don't plan to call Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread.
  2. Tell the owner that access needs a waitlist place and no price is published.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Skydive or Tab?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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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.

Tab 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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