# Skydive vs Tab

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Tab's 10.6 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.md (~3,850 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.min.md (~780 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.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 Tab's 10.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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
- Tab: grade F, 10.6/100, rank #1229 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tab-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tab-bot.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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Skydive | Tab | 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 | 0 | Skydive +81 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 0 | Skydive +59 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 4 | Skydive +55 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 0 | Skydive +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 58 | Tab +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 44 | Skydive +31 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **10.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Skydive | Tab |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Create, Inc. | Terrasoft, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-26 | none |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-02 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| 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.

**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.


## For agents

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