# szn vs Town > Town scores 48.7 (D) to szn's 7.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.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 Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against szn's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - szn: grade F, 7.3/100, rank #1010 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/szn.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/szn.json - Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.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 ### szn (F) Good for: A person who wants calls, emails and bookings done for them and has an access code. Watch for: Early access by access code only. ### Town (D) Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on: - Reliability, 35 against 5 - Schema & documentation, 33 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0 - Security & auth, 79 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 30 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 60 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 63 against 23 Also in its favour: - Free to start without a card Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | szn | Town | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 5 | 35 | Town +30 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 33 | Town +23 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 49 | Town +49 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 79 | Town +79 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Town +10 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 60 | Town +58 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 63 | Town +40 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **7.3 · F** | **48.7 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | szn | Town | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Nomadic Futures | Town.com, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | 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. | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | yes | yes | | llms.txt | yes | no | | Last release | none | 2026-10-10 | | Terms last updated | no document linked | | | Privacy policy last updated | | | | Customer content may train models | | | | Terms restrict automated access | | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | | | Terms or service can change without notice | | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | | ## Verdicts **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. **Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default. ## Before you call either ### 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. ### Town 1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only. 2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run. 3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying. 4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope. 5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, szn or Town? Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against szn's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "szn", "b": "town"}`. 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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. - Town 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.