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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Asmi vs Leon

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth. Both do assistants that remember you.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 LeonLouis Grenard (Leon AI) · Agent harness E41/100#938 of 1010

Which one, for what

Asmi F

Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 49 against 34

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

Leon E

Best for A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 57 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 15 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 51

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No tagged release of the core since 1.0.0-beta.8 on 1 May 2023. The 2.0 Developer Preview is installed by cloning the develop branch

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiLeonEdge
Reliability16%203032Leon +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22033Leon +13
Agent ergonomics13%16.24357Leon +14
Security & auth14%17.54934Asmi +15
Payments & pricing10%12.53060Leon +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8315Leon +12
Transparency & trust7%8.85160Leon +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 33.3/100E 41/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiLeon
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Louis Grenard (Leon AI)
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).MIT
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2023-05-01
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone18k stars

Verdicts

Asmi

Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found.

Leon

Connected-app credentials are encrypted per profile and the Gmail connection is read-only. The 2.0 Developer Preview has no tagged release, runs tools and a 30-minute proactive pulse with no approval step, listens on every network interface with client authentication off, and sends telemetry by default.

Before you call either

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

Leon

  1. Clone the develop branch for 2.0. npm install --global @leon-ai/cli and docs.getleon.ai install and describe the legacy 1.0 betas
  2. Set client_interface.auth.enabled: true and a LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN before the machine joins a shared network. The server binds 0.0.0.0
  3. Set telemetry_enabled: false and runtime.pulse_enabled: false in the profile config.yml for an unattended or private run
  4. Use availability.tools.allowed to limit tools. Shell, file writes, computer use and browser control are otherwise available to the agent with no approval prompt
  5. Back up LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY from the profile .env. Without it the stored connections cannot be read

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or Leon?

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth.

Are Asmi and Leon open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. Leon is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

Asmi 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.

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