# Atticus vs Boski > Atticus scores 42.9 (E) to Boski's 26.2 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.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 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author. - Updated: 2026-10-15 Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you. - Atticus: grade E, 42.9/100, rank #974 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atticus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atticus.json - Boski: grade F, 26.2/100, rank #1045 of 1094. 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 875 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Atticus (E) Good for: A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser. Ahead on: - Reliability, 68 against 25 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 10 - Maintenance & community, 51 against 23 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Free to start without a card - Open source Watch for: No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call ### 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 56 Watch for: No free plan or trial found. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Atticus | Boski | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 25 | Atticus +43 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 15 | even | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 9 | 13 | Boski +4 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 45 | Atticus +4 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 10 | Atticus +50 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 23 | Atticus +28 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 63 | Boski +7 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **42.9 · E** | **26.2 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Atticus | Boski | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | SaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) | Boski, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Your plan | Paid | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-14 | none | | Terms last updated | no document linked | | | Privacy policy last updated | no 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 | | | | Popularity | 163 stars | none | ## Verdicts **Atticus.** Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours 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 ### Atticus 1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box 2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac 3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update ### 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, Atticus or Boski? Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust. ### Are Atticus and Boski open source? Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Boski. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "atticus", "b": "boski"}`. 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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.