# Orchid > Orchid is a hosted executive assistant people reach by iMessage, SMS or Telegram. It triages Gmail, drafts replies, coordinates Google Calendar, prepares meetings and runs habits and reminders, with drafts held until the owner approves. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md (~6,000 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.min.md (~1,430 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.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: 2026-10-14 ## Overview **Grade F · 20.2/100 · rank #992 of 1010 · #29 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment Orchid is a paid executive assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram that holds drafts and calendar holds until the owner approves, with a public status page and a named subprocessor list. No outside agent can call it, there's no free tier, and its privacy policy allows training a personal model while its blog says it never trains. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Zero Email, Inc. (https://orchid.ai) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) | | Auth | OAuth or key · Google sign-in, and Orchid never asks for a password (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe). The terms say integrations use OAuth 2.0 with the minimum permissions needed, and non-Google integrations go through Composio (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy). | | Pricing | Paid ($29.99 / mo) · "Orchid is paid, from $29.99/mo, flat, with no free tier and no meter on your messages" (https://orchid.ai/blog/is-orchid-ai-free-pricing-explained, 14 September 2026). Students and YC founders get 3 months free, and Notion Mail switchers a free month. Current plan details are inside the app, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices when read on 14 October 2026. | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on orchid.ai, llms.txt, the pricing post or the terms, checked 14 October 2026. | | Licence | Closed service under Orchid's Terms of Service (Zero Email, Inc., last updated 16 January 2026). | | llms.txt | https://orchid.ai/llms.txt | | Surface listed | Orchid's personal assistant over iMessage, SMS and Telegram, read from orchid.ai, llms.txt, the FAQ, pricing and safety posts, terms, privacy policy and status page on 14 October 2026. Keiki and the enterprise product were not reviewed. No account was created. | | Where it runs | A cloud service on Convex and Cloudflare, with model inference through Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenRouter (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy). | | What it acts on | Gmail triage and drafts, Google Calendar holds and invites, meeting prep, reminders and habits, and other workplace tools through Composio (https://orchid.ai/llms.txt and https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy). | | Outside agent access | None found. | | Public since | The safety post says the product has been public since March 2026 (https://orchid.ai/blog/orchid-ai-reviews-reddit-is-it-safe). | | Eligibility | 18 and older (https://orchid.ai/legal/terms). | | Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, tasks.create, memory.user | | Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, paid, status-page, llms-txt | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orchid-ai.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 | 50 | 10.0 | | 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 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 10 | 1.2 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 24 | 2.1 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 47, provenance 72) | 7% | 8.8 | 60 | 5.2 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **20.2 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 50: Read with the hosted lines. status.orchid.ai is a status page with Agent (iMessage, Telegram, RCS) and Dashboard components and a history view (20). The history for August to October 2026 shows one incident, on 7 August, when Orchid's text replies went undelivered and it moved to a new number, with no duration. The page gives 99.97 per cent uptime for iMessage and RCS from July to October, which is under an hour over that period, so we count it as minor (20 of 30). The pricing post says there's no meter on messages, and no limits are published (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). Public since March 2026 per the safety post and not labelled beta now (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. Orchid 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. orchid.ai/llms.txt lists the product, comparison, blog and legal pages with summaries (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. Orchid 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 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Orchid, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the product does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For reviewers, the safety post says drafts stay drafts until the owner says send and calendar holds wait for approval, and Google access is through Google sign-in with no password. Security programme. orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bounty, certification or advisories were found. The privacy policy links Convex's SOC 2 page, which is a subprocessor's, not Orchid's (0 of 20). - Payments & pricing 10: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The pricing post of 14 September 2026 says Orchid is from $29.99 a month, flat, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October, so plan-only pricing in public (10). The same post says there's no free tier. Three months free for students and YC founders and a free month for Notion Mail switchers are promotions for named groups, not a free plan or trial anyone can start (0). A person signs up with Google (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 24: Read for a closed service. No changelog. The newest product post is Carousels on 6 August 2026, 69 days before this check. The 14 September posts explain pricing, safety and setup and change nothing, and Keiki (25 August) is a separate product (20). One product entry in the last 90 days (0). Product posts on the blog and a status page whose incident note says what to do, with no support channel tested (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 60: Closed service under terms last updated on 16 January 2026 naming Zero Email, Inc. (15). The privacy policy of 14 September 2026 says Orchid doesn't train shared models on customer data but may train each customer's personal model on their data, and binds model providers not to train. The safety post of the same date answers whether Orchid trains on your data with No. Never. Backups are kept 30 days after deletion. The two statements disagree, the Grok Bot dossier's 15 for a mismatch on training (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). The privacy policy names its subprocessors by role, Convex, Cloudflare, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Composio, Stripe, Resend, Linq, PostHog and Sentry, with no regions (15 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (12 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/orchid-ai.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/orchid-ai.json) ### What we couldn't check - The status page's 7 August note gives a new number, +1 (415) 605-3216, while the 14 September pricing post gives +1 (415) 466-5122. Which is current wasn't established. - Current plan prices, since orchid.ai/pricing showed none. ### Sources - status page: (seen 2026-10-14) - status history: (seen 2026-10-14) - llms.txt: (seen 2026-10-14) - pricing post, 14 September 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - safety post, 14 September 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - Carousels post, 6 August 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - blog index: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy policy: (seen 2026-10-14) - terms: (seen 2026-10-14) - sitemap (audit re-read): (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 72/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Zero Email, Inc. | 20/20 | | Domain age | orchid.ai, registered 2017-12-16 (8 years) | 11/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | published | 10/10 | | Privacy policy | published | 10/10 | | Status page | status.orchid.ai | 10/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | The terms name Zero Email, Inc. ("Orchid") and were last updated on 16 January 2026. The privacy policy was last updated on 14 September 2026. orchid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No changelog was found; the blog carries product posts. RDAP gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 for orchid.ai, which predates 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://orchid.ai/legal/terms), not read yet. **Privacy policy** (https://orchid.ai/legal/privacy), not read yet. ## Live (updated 2026-10-14 02:17 UTC) - Vendor status page: none, All Systems Operational - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/orchid-ai.json ## 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. ## Prices | Item | Price | Unit | Note | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Orchid | $29.99 | per month (plan) | "From $29.99/mo", billed monthly, per the pricing post of 14 September 2026. | Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md ## Strengths - Public status page with component history, one incident from August to October 2026. - Drafts and calendar holds wait for the owner's approval by default, per the safety post. - The privacy policy names twelve subprocessors by role, model providers included. - Model providers are contractually barred from training on customer data. ## Weaknesses - No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. - The privacy policy allows training a personal model on the owner's data, while the safety post says Orchid never trains. - No free tier, and orchid.ai/pricing showed no prices on 14 October 2026. - No security.txt, security contact or certification of its own found. ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Orchid from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, SMS and Telegram threads. 2. Check status.orchid.ai before telling the owner Orchid is down. The 7 August incident moved it to a new number. 3. Tell the owner that drafts and holds wait for their approval unless they widen it. ## 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Town | D | 48.7 | 834 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md | | Del | F | 20.6 | 991 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, tasks.create, 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, memory.user, tasks.create | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md | | OpenInstinct | F | 21.8 | 988 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.md | | Caddy | F | 16.7 | 996 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, calendar.write, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.md | | Orbits | F | 15.6 | 997 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, calendar.write, mailbox.read, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, tasks.create, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orbits.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 - Orchid is reached over iMessage at +1 (415) 466-5122, SMS and Telegram, and the status page lists iMessage, Telegram and RCS components (source: ) - Connections today are Gmail and Google Calendar through Google sign-in, per the safety post. The home page and terms also name Google Drive, Granola, Sentry and other workplace tools (source: ) - By default nothing that leaves the thread happens without approval. "Drafts stay drafts until you say send" and calendar holds wait, and owners can widen this, for example to confirm meetings with named people (source: ) - The privacy policy (14 September 2026) says Orchid does not train shared models on customer data but "may train your personal model on your data", and that model providers are contractually barred from training. The safety post answers "Does Orchid train AI models on my data?" with "No. Never." (source: ) - Subprocessors named are Convex, Cloudflare, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Composio, Stripe, Resend, Linq, PostHog and Sentry (source: ) - Backups are kept up to 30 days after account deletion (source: ) - The status page shows 99.97 per cent uptime for the agent components from July to October 2026 (source: ) - The company also sells Keiki, a customer-facing agent builder, and an enterprise product (source: ) - #29 of 42 in 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 ## Compare - [asaply vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 7.6 vs F 20.2 - [Asmi vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 33.3 vs F 20.2 - [AstrBot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-orchid-ai.md): C 58.8 vs F 20.2 - [Boba vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 10.3 vs F 20.2 - [Boski vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 26.2 vs F 20.2 - [Brea vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 12.9 vs F 20.2 - [Caddy vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 16.7 vs F 20.2 - [CowAgent vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-orchid-ai.md): C 58.5 vs F 20.2 - [Del vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 20.6 vs F 20.2 - [folk vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 19.8 vs F 20.2 - [GAIA vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-orchid-ai.md): D 49.5 vs F 20.2 - [Grok Bot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 24.4 vs F 20.2 - [Haven vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 22.2 vs F 20.2 - [Hermes Agent vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-orchid-ai.md): B 67.9 vs F 20.2 - [HireAlpha vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 8.4 vs F 20.2 - [Instinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 7.3 vs F 20.2 - [IronClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md): B 66.7 vs F 20.2 - [Lindy vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 32.3 vs F 20.2 - [nanobot vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-orchid-ai.md): B 62.4 vs F 20.2 - [NanoClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md): B 68.3 vs F 20.2 - [Dots vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 28.3 vs F 20.2 - [OpenClaw vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-orchid-ai.md): B 67.1 vs F 20.2 - [OpenInstinct vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 21.8 vs F 20.2 - [Orbits vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 15.6 vs F 20.2 - [Orchid vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-pally.md): F 20.2 vs F 37.8 - [Orchid vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-picoclaw.md): F 20.2 vs D 46.1 - [Orchid vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-poke.md): F 20.2 vs F 37.6 - [Orchid vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-qwenpaw.md): F 20.2 vs B 62.2 - [Orchid vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-szn.md): F 20.2 vs F 7.3 - [Orchid vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-tab-bot.md): F 20.2 vs F 10.7 - [Orchid vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-tomo.md): F 20.2 vs F 13.1 - [Orchid vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.md): F 20.2 vs D 48.7 - [Orchid vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zapia.md): F 20.2 vs F 17.3 - [Orchid vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 20.2 vs BB 70.2 - [Orchid vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-zo-computer.md): F 20.2 vs E 43.1 - [Gemini Spark vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 24.5 vs F 20.2 - [Leon vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-orchid-ai.md): E 41 vs F 20.2 - [Natura tinyNature vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 15.1 vs F 20.2 - [Orchid vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-wajo.md): F 20.2 vs E 43.9 - [Orchid vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-talorys.md): F 20.2 vs F 28.9 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on orchid.ai or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "orchid-ai", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html Orchid on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Orchid on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/orchid-ai.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai) ``` Plain link: ```html Orchid on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. Sharing assets for social media, two PNGs of 1200 × 630 that say Orchid is listed on Anchor Terminal, with the vendor's logo and this page's address and no grade or score. - Dark: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/orchid-ai-dark.png - Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/orchid-ai-light.png - Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=orchid-ai ## Disclosure Orchid 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.