# AstrBot vs Boba > AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Boba's 10.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.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 AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - AstrBot: grade C, 58.8/100, rank #585 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/astrbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json - Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1004 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.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 ### AstrBot (C) Good for: Someone who wants one self-run bot answering on QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark or WeCom, in private or group chats, with scheduled tasks, a knowledge base and plugins. Ahead on: - Reliability, 81 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 62 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0 - Security & auth, 44 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 81 against 2 Also in its favour: - Open source Watch for: No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking ### Boba (F) Good for: Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images. Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | AstrBot | Boba | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 15 | AstrBot +66 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 0 | AstrBot +62 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 0 | AstrBot +54 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 0 | AstrBot +44 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | AstrBot +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 2 | AstrBot +79 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 39 | AstrBot +1 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **10.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | AstrBot | Boba | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | AstrBotDevs | humans& ai, inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | 2026-09-27 | none | | Terms last updated | 2026-01-12 | | | Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | | | Customer content may train models | not found in the text | | | Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | | | Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | | | Popularity | 42k stars | none | ## Verdicts **AstrBot.** Fourteen official messaging adapters, scheduled tasks and scoped API keys come in one AGPL-3.0 program with releases most weeks. No tool call asks for approval, no mail, calendar or long-term memory connector is built in, and usage statistics, including the machine's hostname, are sent by default. **Boba.** Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found. ## Before you call either ### AstrBot 1. Set `ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1` before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default 2. Set `dashboard.host` to 127.0.0.1 in `data/cmd_config.json`, or the `DASHBOARD_HOST` variable, unless remote access is intended. The default is 0.0.0.0 3. Create an `abk_` key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-API-Key` 4. Include `username` in every `POST /api/v1/chat` body. Without the `chat:admin` scope an administrator ID is rejected 5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails ### Boba 1. Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app. 2. Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Boba? AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are AstrBot and Boba open source? AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Boba. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "astrbot", "b": "boba"}`. 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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.