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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Boski

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#585 of 1010 BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010

Which one, for what

AstrBot C

Best 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 25
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 13
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 23

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking

Boski F

Best for People who want an agent working on personal goals between conversations, and who want ChatGPT or Codex to read their saved preferences.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 40

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotBoskiEdge
Reliability16%208125AstrBot +56
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26215AstrBot +47
Agent ergonomics13%16.25413AstrBot +41
Security & auth14%17.54445Boski +1
Payments & pricing10%12.56010AstrBot +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88123AstrBot +58
Transparency & trust7%8.84063Boski +23
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 58.8/100F 26.2/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotBoski
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsBoski, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-27none
Terms last updated2026-01-12
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity42k starsnone

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.

Boski

Boski is a hosted personal agent that works on its owner's goals over messaging channels for $5 a week, and its plugin lets ChatGPT and Codex read saved preferences under a read-only OAuth scope. No free option, status page or security contact was found, and the plugin's tool definitions weren't readable.

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

Boski

  1. Use the Boski plugin only to read the owner's saved preferences and constraints. It can't save changes.
  2. Ask the owner to finish Boski's onboarding interview if the plugin says it's incomplete, then retry.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Boski?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Boski open source?

AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Boski.

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Disclosure

Boski 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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