# Brea > Brea is a hosted personal AI assistant people text in iMessage. It replies to email, books flights and handles tasks across more than 2,000 connected apps, and uses a cloud browser for sites without an integration. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.md (~5,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.min.md (~1,330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.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 ## Overview **Grade F · 12.9/100 · rank #1001 of 1010 · #36 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Brea AI LLC (https://brea.ai) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) | | Auth | OAuth or key · Sign up with a phone number at https://app.brea.ai/start, then text Brea in iMessage (https://brea.ai/llms.txt). Brea texts a secure link to connect an app when it needs one, and OAuth tokens are stored encrypted by its managed OAuth provider. Site logins are saved on a secure page, never in chat (https://brea.ai and https://brea.ai/privacy). | | Pricing | Freemium (Freemium) · "Every account starts free, with every feature included. You do not need a credit card to sign up" (https://brea.ai, FAQ, checked 14 October 2026). The docs name three plans, Free, Starter and Pro, which differ in monthly AI usage (not numbered) and connectors (1, 3 and no limit), billed monthly or yearly, with current prices shown only on the in-app Plan page (https://docs.brea.ai/settings/plan/). No paid price was published. | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on brea.ai, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026. Purchases use one-time cards through Link by Stripe. | | Licence | Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026). | | Docs | https://docs.brea.ai | | llms.txt | https://brea.ai/llms.txt | | Surface listed | Brea's iMessage assistant and iOS app, read from brea.ai, llms.txt, the security page, terms and privacy policy on 14 October 2026. docs.brea.ai was not read. No account was created. | | Where it runs | A cloud service with a dedicated, isolated instance per customer (https://brea.ai/security). Hosting and model providers are not named. | | What it acts on | Email, calendar, files and more than 2,000 connected apps, plus any website through a browser, including bookings and purchases (https://brea.ai). | | Outside agent access | None found. | | Company | Brea AI LLC. Support support@brea.ai (https://brea.ai/terms and https://brea.ai/llms.txt). | | Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, browser.hosted, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, travel.booking, memory.user, notify.push | | Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, freemium, free-tier, no-card, ios, llms-txt | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 10 | 1.6 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 7 | 1.2 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 20 | 2.5 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 4 | 0.3 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 40, provenance 55) | 7% | 8.8 | 48 | 4.2 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **12.9 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). The plan docs describe AI usage as some, more and most for Free, Starter and Pro, with only the connector caps (1, 3 and no limit) numbered, and Brea stops answering at the limit (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 10: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Brea has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the product for people. brea.ai/llms.txt and a docs site at docs.brea.ai with guides and troubleshooting (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15). This is the reading the 12 October auditor applied to every listing without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead. - Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Brea has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the product for people. - Security & auth 7: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Brea, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, Brea asks in iMessage before it sends, deletes, shares or changes a setting (allow, always or deny), pays with a new Link one-time card after each approval, and per the security page injects credentials server-side and runs each customer on a dedicated instance. brea.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, but the security page (updated August 2026) sets out responsible disclosure to security@brea.ai, read by a person, and says Brea is CASA Tier 2 verified. No bug bounty, SOC 2 report or advisories found. A disclosure route with a CASA assessment sits below Natura's 10 for SOC 2 Type I and a disclosure address (7 of 20). - Payments & pricing 20: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402. Purchases use one-time cards through Link (0). The docs name Free, Starter and Pro and say the Plan page in the app shows current prices, and no paid price is published (0). The FAQ and the plan docs say every account starts on Free with every feature and no credit card (20). A person signs up with a phone number at app.brea.ai/start (0). - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 4: Read for a closed service. No changelog, release notes or app-store version found. The one blog post, 29 July 2026, introduces the blog (0). No dated product entries in the last 90 days (0). A docs site with troubleshooting pages and support@brea.ai, untested, like Natura's 4 for a community channel and an address (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 48: Closed service under terms last updated on 2 July 2026 naming Brea AI LLC (15). The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 keeps Google data out of generalised models and bars model providers from training on it, and deletes conversations and files with the account. The security page says Brea never trains on customer data. Consistent, with no periods beyond deletion (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). OAuth tokens are held by a managed OAuth provider that isn't named, and no hosting or model providers or regions are named (3 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (13 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/brea.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/brea.json) ### What we couldn't check - Paid plan prices. - Which providers host Brea and its models. ### Sources - home page and FAQ: (seen 2026-10-14) - llms.txt: (seen 2026-10-14) - security page: (seen 2026-10-14) - plans docs: (seen 2026-10-14) - usage limit docs: (seen 2026-10-14) - approvals docs: (seen 2026-10-14) - blog: (seen 2026-10-14) - terms: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy policy: (seen 2026-10-14) - status subdomain DNS lookup: (seen 2026-10-14) - App Store search: (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 55/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Brea AI LLC | 20/20 | | Domain age | brea.ai, registered 2023-08-25 (3 years) | 7/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | published | 10/10 | | Privacy policy | published | 10/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | The terms were last updated on 2 July 2026 and the privacy policy on 28 September 2026. brea.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found. RDAP gives a registration date of 2023-08-25 for brea.ai, which may predate the product. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://brea.ai/terms), not read yet. **Privacy policy** (https://brea.ai/privacy), not read yet. ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - Free plan with every feature and no credit card, per the FAQ and docs. - Asks before sending, inviting, deleting, paying or changing settings, with ALLOW, ALWAYS or DENY replies. - Each purchase uses a new one-time card approved in Link. - A published security reporting address, read by a person. ## Weaknesses - No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. - Paid plan prices appear only on the in-app Plan page. - No changelog, release notes or status page found. - No hosting, model or OAuth providers named. ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread. 2. Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action. ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | OpenInstinct | F | 21.8 | 988 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, browser.hosted, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.md | | asaply | F | 7.6 | 1006 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, commerce.checkout, travel.booking, calendar.write, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply.md | | Town | D | 48.7 | 834 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user, notify.push | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md | | Pally | F | 37.8 | 958 | assistant.accounts, assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, travel.booking, commerce.checkout, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md | | Del | F | 20.6 | 991 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, browser.hosted, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md | | folk | F | 19.8 | 993 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, browser.hosted, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - Before Brea sends, deletes, shares or changes a setting it asks in iMessage, and the owner replies allow, always or deny (source: ) - Payments go through Link by Stripe, with a new one-time card for each purchase the owner approves (source: ) - The security page (August 2026) says credentials are injected server-side when a tool runs, so the model holds only references, and that each customer has a dedicated, isolated instance (source: ) - Brea says it is CASA Tier 2 verified and never trains on customer data (source: ) - The privacy policy (28 September 2026) says Google user data is not used to train generalised models and model providers may not train on it, and conversations and files are deleted with the account (source: ) - Brea has an iOS app with a Connectors screen and push notifications (source: ) - #36 of 42 in Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - 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[Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md): F 12.9 vs D 48.7 - [Brea vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zapia.md): F 12.9 vs F 17.3 - [Brea vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 12.9 vs BB 70.2 - [Brea vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-zo-computer.md): F 12.9 vs E 43.1 - [Brea vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-gemini-spark.md): F 12.9 vs F 24.5 - [Brea vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-leon.md): F 12.9 vs E 41 - [Brea vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-wajo.md): F 12.9 vs E 43.9 - [Brea vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys.md): F 12.9 vs F 28.9 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. 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