# Tomo vs Town > Town scores 48.7 (D) to Tomo's 13.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-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 Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts. - Tomo: grade F, 13.1/100, rank #1000 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.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 ### Tomo (F) Good for: People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats. Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### Town (D) Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on: - Reliability, 35 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 33 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 49 against 0 - Security & auth, 79 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 30 against 10 - Maintenance & community, 60 against 54 - Transparency & trust, 63 against 47 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 | Tomo | Town | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 35 | Town +20 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 33 | Town +33 | | 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) | 10 | 30 | Town +20 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 60 | Town +6 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 63 | Town +16 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **13.1 · F** | **48.7 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Tomo | Town | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Mapo Labs, Inc. | Town.com, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026). | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-10 | | Terms last updated | | | | 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 **Tomo.** Tomo is a hosted personal AI over iMessage and an iOS app, centred on goals, check-ins and reminders, with regular iOS releases since April 2026. No outside agent can call it, there's no free plan, and no status page, security contact or subprocessor list was found. **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 ### Tomo 1. Don't plan to call Tomo from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, group chats it's added to and the iOS app. 2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant. ### 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, Tomo or Town? Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "tomo", "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.