# AstrBot vs Boski

> AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) to Boski's 26.2 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

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.

- 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
- Boski: grade F, 26.2/100, rank #981 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boski.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | AstrBot | Boski | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 25 | AstrBot +56 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 15 | AstrBot +47 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 13 | AstrBot +41 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 45 | Boski +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 10 | AstrBot +50 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 23 | AstrBot +58 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 63 | Boski +23 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **58.8 · C** | **26.2 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | AstrBot | Boski |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | AstrBotDevs | Boski, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Closed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| 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.

**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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boski.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boski.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "astrbot", "b": "boski"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare astrbot boski`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/astrbot.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.json

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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.