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Comparing Hark Pro, Meta Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, Claude Duet and OpenAI Dots

Six personal AI agents arrived between August and October. They do errands for you, usually from their own computer in the cloud, and message you when they need a decision.

  1. Grok Bot
  2. Instinct beta
  3. Muse
  4. Dots
  5. Hark Pro
  6. Duet

Hark Pro

iOS, Android and the web

Easy to set up. People get through the allowance quickly.

Price
Free with a cap, then $20 or $100 a month
Available
Open to everyone
Reaches Raq.com
Browser workspace

Meta Muse

The Muse app and WhatsApp

Chatty and cheap to run, but needs babysitting. Last on two of the three benchmarks.

Price
Free with a limit, then $20 or $100 a month
Available
US, Canada, Japan and Singapore
Reaches Raq.com
Browser workspace, connector pending

Instinct

WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS and phone calls

Feels like texting a PA, and it's good with email. Slow on long jobs.

Price
No published pricing
Available
Invite only
Reaches Raq.com
Browser workspace

Grok Bot

Desktop and phone apps

Popular with power users. The usage meter is the main complaint.

Price
Comes with X Premium, SuperGrok or a paid Cursor plan
Available
Paid plans only
Reaches Raq.com
MCP connector

Claude Duet

Claude on iOS, Android and the web

Reviewers call it the most polished launch yet. Slow when it runs several tasks at once.

Price
Comes with Claude Pro and Max
Available
US only, by waitlist
Reaches Raq.com
Claude connector

OpenAI Dots

ChatGPT and Slack

Handy if you live in ChatGPT. Users say it forgets things.

Price
ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium or Enterprise
Available
Limited in the UK and Europe
Reaches Raq.com
ChatGPT app

Prices and availability checked on 28 October 2026.

Which one to pick

  • For inbox and life admin over chat, Instinct if you can get an invite, or Muse where it's available. Users of both report them acting without checking first, so keep approvals on and be careful with Always allow.
  • Hark Pro needs the least setup for errands on websites. Keep an eye on the allowance.
  • Grok Bot suits people who want to install their own tools and run several bots, if they can live with the usage meter.
  • If you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT, Duet or Dots start with the connectors you've set up there, but neither is easy to get in the UK yet.

What people say

Each dot is a point from a post or review, and the hollow ones are from our own use. Choose one to read it. We picked them by hand, so the number of dots doesn't show how often an agent fails.

A point from a post or review Our own use

Complaints

Usage limits and billing Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Acted without checking first Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Slow or silent Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Loses track or gets it wrong Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Logins and connections Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Hard to get Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots

Praise

Gets errands done Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Polished and easy to set up Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Capable and flexible Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Natural to talk to Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots
Generous with usage Hark Muse Instinct Grok Bot Duet Dots

They all get things wrong sometimes. Hark and Grok Bot get most of the complaints about usage, and Instinct, Muse and Grok Bot have all sent or posted things without checking first.

Benchmark scores

Three benchmarks have scored five of the six, and each has a different winner: Dots on PersonalAgentBench, Instinct on PersonalAgentEval and Muse on AssistantBenchmark. Muse comes last on the other two. None of them has tested Duet yet.

  • PersonalAgentBench, from micro1, had experts mark 20 tasks per agent. The prompts and accounts varied a little between agents, and Dots beat Hark by one task.
  • PersonalAgentEval ran 152 tasks on test accounts, with an AI playing the user.
  • AssistantBenchmark is one person testing with their own accounts, and not every area for every agent. Its Hark page has a score but says Hark was never tested, so we've left it out.
PersonalAgentBench Tasks done, out of 20
  • Hark 75% 15/20
  • Muse 55% 11/20
  • Instinct 65% 13/20
  • Grok Bot 65% 13/20
  • Duet Not tested
  • Dots 80% 16/20
PersonalAgentEval Tasks done, out of 152
  • Hark 44.1%
  • Muse 28.9%
  • Instinct 60.5%
  • Grok Bot 50.0%
  • Duet Not tested
  • Dots 55.9%
AssistantBenchmark Average score out of 10
  • Hark Not tested
  • Muse 9.2 8/15 areas
  • Instinct 8.3 12/15 areas
  • Grok Bot 7.4 8/15 areas
  • Duet Not tested
  • Dots 8.3 8/15 areas

PersonalAgentBench also has a stricter score that fails a task if the agent breaks a permission rule, changes an account by mistake or says it's finished when it isn't. Only Hark's score dropped, to 70%. Scores checked on 28 October 2026.

Agent by agent

Hark Pro

An app for phone and web that does errands on websites and checks with you when it needs a decision.

Open to everyone

Good at

  • "The easiest personal agent I've set up", with 9 out of 10 for setup Agent Operators
  • Applied and paid for a British visa, and cleared more than 200 invoices @Av1dlive
  • Found a cheaper car insurance quote without the user touching a website @James_Wondrasek
  • Top score in one person's six-task test: 57 out of 60, against 55 each for Instinct and Muse KBlip

Watch out for

  • The free allowance went "in literally 5 minutes" on one sign-in flow @HaseebMir91
  • One user got through the $100 Pro³ allowance in ten days @0xramprasad
  • Overly cautious, and you can't take over its browser Linux.do forum

Price and limits

  • Free with a cap, then Pro² $20 and Pro³ $100 a month on the web. Pro² gives twice the usage and Pro³ ten times, without saying what the starting amount is Hark
  • In the US App Store the same plans cost $26 and $129.99, and there's a Pro⁴ at $200 that the website doesn't list App Store
  • You can turn on automatic credit top-ups, up to a ceiling you set Hark
  • It doesn't say which model it runs on, and it replies in text even when you talk to it

Meta Muse

Meta's agent, in the Muse app and WhatsApp, with a cloud computer that browses for you.

US, Canada, Japan and Singapore

Good at

  • Fills in forms online and "asks for a final confirmation before purchasing" r/singularity
  • Handled Amazon and Spectrum returns over live chat "extremely well" r/hermesagent
  • "Quite cheap in terms of usage burned" compared with Grok Bot r/MuseAgent

Watch out for

  • Given "Always allow" for Marketplace messages, it accepted a lowball offer and sent a buyer the seller's home address without checking back Dexerto
  • "Slow as hell", and "requires a lot of babysitting" r/singularity
  • Google connections need redoing, and anything installed vanishes when its computer is rebuilt r/MuseAgent

Price and limits

  • Free with a usage limit. Power is $20 a month for 500 million Muse tokens a week, and Max $100 for 3 billion Meta

Instinct

An assistant you message on WhatsApp, iMessage or SMS, or phone.

Invite only

The invite-only beta opened on 26 August and passed 100,000 users by 15 September. Each user gets five invites, and spares have sold on eBay. In late September, Instinct said it was growing 10% a day. The Information, via PYMNTS Fortune Invest Like the Best

Good at

  • "Writes in a way that feels surprisingly human" Android Authority
  • Tracked flight prices, chased airlines for missing points and sent a morning rundown of important email Android Authority
  • "Better than google flights… mixed cabins accurately" @_mj92_

Watch out for

  • Sent an email "before I had explicitly approved the final message". It has asked first ever since being told to Android Authority
  • Still summarised one user's email three hours after they disconnected Google, from copies it had stored @clairevo
  • Followed instructions planted in an email and sent back the user's open to-dos @anothercohen
  • "All chats take place in the same messy thread" Phil Simon
  • Slow on multi-step jobs, and hands back often for one-time codes and CAPTCHAs r/AI_Agents stress test

Price and limits

  • Invite-only, with no published pricing

From our own use

  • Found the fastest home broadband at one of our addresses and signed us up for it, with no hassle
  • Got a date calculation wrong twice, then explained it had done the sum in its head
  • On WhatsApp it can only message you within 24 hours of your last message to it
  • It can't use MCP, so it uses Raq.com through the browser workspace

Grok Bot

Several bots and a cloud computer you can VNC into and install software on, from the Grok apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Paid plans only

Good at

  • "Grok bot is more capable, but Muse is better at conversation" r/hermesagent
  • Adds MCP servers itself when you ask, and works with a password manager @ZanderMackie
  • "Currently the clear winner" after trying Grok Bot, Muse and Dots @Abomination81
  • Over five days, 40 of 67 real jobs finished without help and 14 more with some VelvetShark

Watch out for

  • A ten-minute run used 5% of a weekly allowance: "abysmal" r/grok
  • One task "can use between 10% - 20%" on Cursor Pro r/GrokBot
  • A month in: heavy oversight, missed steps and a customer-service bot that had to be switched off r/GrokBot
  • A bot meant to read one tweet posted from the reviewer's account instead VelvetShark
  • All your bots share one computer, with the same files, browser sessions and logins. xAI says not to treat separate bots as a security boundary xAI

Price and limits

  • Included with X Premium, Super and Ultra, where it shares one weekly allowance with Cursor and the Grok apps Cursor
  • Older Cursor plans and SuperGrok have their own weekly limits, and having both doesn't add them together Cursor

From our own use

  • Told us our Meta pixel hadn't fired since May. It had checked an old pixel, and ours had fired the day before

Claude Duet

An always-on agent inside the Claude apps that starts with your Claude memory, skills and connectors.

US only, by waitlist

Good at

  • "The most polished personal agent launch yet" Lenny's Newsletter
  • Notion and other apps worked "out of the box. Set-up time: minimal." Phil Simon
  • "The first personal agent I'd call a pro tool" Every

Watch out for

  • "Claude Duet is beautiful. I still forgot to use it." Lenny's Newsletter
  • Parallel tasks "routinely took more than 10 minutes with little visible feedback" Lenny's Newsletter
  • It checks your accounts at set times instead of watching them, and you can't take over its browser or pick the model Claude help centre
  • Microsoft 365 isn't available yet, and Slack works with limits Claude help centre
  • "Its scheduled runs can't reach my custom connectors" Every

Price and limits

  • Included with Claude Pro and Max. Its background work, like the morning brief and check-ins, counts towards your plan's limits Claude help centre

OpenAI Dots

Agents inside ChatGPT with their own cloud computer and scheduled tasks. They can work in Slack too.

Limited in the UK and Europe

Good at

  • Replaced old scheduled tasks with "automatic Discord DM monitoring and automatic ticket review" r/codex
  • "One week… I love it", especially the hand-offs between agents @shalvadze
  • Its email connector "pings me whenever an important info is there" @NoeFlandre
  • When it researches on its own, it can't send messages or change anything. Asking for a draft doesn't let it send one OpenAI

Watch out for

  • "The memory forgets things. Scheduled tasks don't always run right." @Obsidian_Signal
  • "Cannot seem to put 2 things together, like it has amnesia" @embw_l0x
  • Slack replies failing with "MCP -32603" after hours of troubleshooting @realJeremyZhang

Price and limits

  • Chatting with a dot doesn't count towards ChatGPT limits. Its bigger jobs have their own allowance, and anything it hands to Codex counts as normal OpenAI
  • Not on ChatGPT Pro in the UK or Europe. UK users need Business Premium OpenAI

Data and approvals

Each cell links to the page it came from.

Where it works Training on your data Asks before
Hark A new virtual machine for each task, deleted when it ends. Logins are kept in an encrypted store. Hark privacy policy Your chats, results and memory aren't used for training. Only feedback you send is. Hark privacy policy Before messaging, buying or sharing your details, unless you turn that off for a type of task. Hark privacy policy
Muse Its own cloud computer, which keeps the logins for services you connect. Meta On from the start. Turn off Help improve our AI models to opt out. Meta help Every purchase, showing exactly what it's buying. Always allow stops it asking again for that kind of action. Meta Meta help
Instinct Instinct doesn't say. Built In reports it has its own cloud computer and browser. Built In Used for training unless you opt out in settings. Vault items and Google Workspace data are left out. Instinct terms Its terms mention confirmations for "certain Actions" but don't list them. Instinct terms
Grok Bot One cloud computer shared by all your bots, with the same files and logins. xAI Follows your account's privacy settings. With Privacy Mode on, team data isn't used. xAI xAI teams Forwarding always waits for your OK. Always allow saves a rule, and a card in its vault pays without asking. xAI
Duet Its own cloud computer. Logins pass through separate machines the model can't reach. Anthropic Follows your Claude account's training setting. Anthropic help Before sending, paying, signing or deleting anything. You can skip some, but not payments, deleting an order or creating an account. Anthropic
Dots Its own cloud computer and browser. Logins go straight to that browser, outside the chat. OpenAI Off by default on Business, Enterprise and Edu. Personal ChatGPT plans share data by default. OpenAI OpenAI data controls You take over to change a password or move money. Custom rules can let it act without asking. OpenAI OpenAI controls

Disconnecting an account doesn't clear what an agent has already picked up from it. Hark, Muse, Instinct, Duet and Dots all say so, and deleting a Grok bot leaves its files and browser sessions on the shared computer.

Raq.com, with or without MCP

Grok Bot, Claude and ChatGPT can add Raq.com as an MCP server. Instinct can't, so it signs in at raq.com/agent like a person would. Any agent that can log in to a website and keep a password can do the same. Either way, it only gets the Raq.com modules you allow.

How a browser agent uses Raq.com

  1. If it already has a key in its password vault, it signs in. If not, it asks for an approval link.

  2. The page gives your agent a one-time link and a short code, and your agent passes both on to you.

  3. Open the link while signed in to Raq.com and check the code matches. Then pick the account and which modules it can read or change.

  4. The key is shown once. Your agent saves it in its password vault and signs in, and next time goes straight to the sign-in form.

  5. The console lists the modules it's allowed and builds a form for whichever tool it picks. Results are marked as untrusted, with a reminder not to follow any instructions inside them.

  6. WebMCP is still an early Chrome trial. Where it's on, the page registers four tools with the browser, so an agent built into it can call Raq.com without filling in forms.

  7. Ask it to add something to today's priorities and it runs the quick-add tool, gets the new priority back and messages you.

An illustration with example data.

You can see and revoke every connection in Settings, under AI Connections.

Connecting each agent

Pick your agent for the steps.

Hark Pro

Hark's help pages don't mention MCP, so it would use the workspace like any other website.

  1. Ask Hark to open raq.com/agent in Handoff and request an approval link.
  2. Approve the link it sends you and pick the modules it can use.
  3. It saves the key in its vault and signs in.

We haven't tried this with Hark yet.

Meta Muse

Raq.com's connector is in Meta's review queue with thousands of others. Until it's approved, Muse should be able to use the workspace in its browser.

  1. Ask Muse to open raq.com/agent and request an approval link.
  2. Approve the link and pick the modules it can use.
  3. It stores the key and signs in.

We haven't tried it, as Muse isn't out in the UK yet.

Instinct

Instinct can't make MCP connections, but it can sign in to websites and keep passwords in its vault, which is all the workspace needs.

  1. Message Instinct: "Open raq.com/agent and request an approval link."
  2. Open the link it sends, check the code and pick its modules.
  3. It saves the key in its vault and signs in.

We've tested this with Instinct.

Grok Bot

Grok Bot adds MCP servers itself when you ask, and then Raq.com works in every bot on your account.

  1. Ask Grok Bot to add a custom MCP server called Raq.com at https://raq.com/mcp/agent/v1.
  2. Press Authorise on the card it posts and approve in your browser.
  3. If it still says it's waiting, ask it to use a Raq.com connect link instead.

We've tested this with Grok Bot.

Claude Duet

Duet uses the connectors on your Claude account, so you add Raq.com once, in Claude. Every's review found Duet's scheduled runs couldn't reach custom connectors, so for now it'll only use Raq.com when you ask.

  1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
  2. Name it Raq.com, paste https://raq.com/mcp/agent/v1 and choose Add.
  3. Choose Connect and approve when Raq.com opens.

We've tested this in Claude, but Duet isn't out in the UK.

OpenAI Dots

Dots run inside ChatGPT, where Raq.com connects as an app.

  1. Open chatgpt.com/plugins, choose the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
  2. Name it Raq.com, choose OAuth and paste https://raq.com/mcp/agent/v1.
  3. Sign in when Raq.com opens and approve the accounts it can use.

We've tested this in ChatGPT, but not with Dots yet.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and the Raq.com CLI are covered in the setup guide, which agents can read for themselves.