# Boba vs DeepTutor > DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) 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/boba-vs-deeptutor - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-deeptutor.md (~3,750 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-deeptutor.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-deeptutor.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 - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-30 DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1226 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json - DeepTutor: grade B, 62.7/100, rank #494 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deeptutor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deeptutor.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Boba (F) Good for: Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where DeepTutor loses 3 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### DeepTutor (B) Good for: A learner, a teacher or a small group that wants a self-hosted tutor over their own documents, with quizzes, research reports, memory and IM companions, or for an agent that hands study tasks to it through the JSON CLI. Ahead on: - Reliability, 78 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 71 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 63 against 0 - Security & auth, 51 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 84 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 52 against 39 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Open source Watch for: The default launch binds the backend to 0.0.0.0 with sign-in off and CORS open to any origin with credentials ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Boba | DeepTutor | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 78 | DeepTutor +63 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 71 | DeepTutor +71 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 63 | DeepTutor +63 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 51 | DeepTutor +51 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | DeepTutor +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 84 | DeepTutor +82 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 39 | 52 | DeepTutor +13 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **62.7 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Boba | DeepTutor | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | HKUDS | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | None | | Pricing | Free | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | Apache-2.0 | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | none | 2026-10-28 | | Terms last updated | 2026-10-21 | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-21 | no document linked | | Customer content may train models | yes | | | Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | | | Terms or service can change without notice | yes | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | | | Popularity | none | 51k stars | | Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (4) | none | ## Verdicts **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. **DeepTutor.** DeepTutor runs on the owner's machine under Apache 2.0, ships releases every few days with upgrade notes, and gives other agents a JSON CLI with resumable sessions. Its default launch binds all interfaces with sign-in off and permissive CORS, there is no security policy, and two CVEs in 2026 covered a shell-tool RCE and a multi-user MCP bypass, both fixed. ## Before you call either ### 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. ### DeepTutor 1. Run `deeptutor run "..." --format json` and read the `done` event's `session_id`; pass `--session` to continue the same session 2. Configure with `deeptutor config apply setup.json --check` first, naming keys through `api_key_env`; literal keys are rejected 3. Before exposing it beyond one machine, enable sign-in in `auth.json`, set exact `cors_origins` and set `BACKEND_HOST=127.0.0.1` where loopback is wanted 4. Run 1.4.10 or later. Earlier versions carry CVE-2026-51870 (shell tool RCE, fixed in 1.4.1) and CVE-2026-58168 (multi-user MCP bypass) 5. Set `sandbox_allow_subprocess` to false where generated code must run only in the runner sidecar or bubblewrap ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Boba or DeepTutor? DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Boba and DeepTutor open source? No open-source release is listed for Boba. DeepTutor is open source (Apache-2.0). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-deeptutor.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-deeptutor.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boba", "b": "deeptutor"}`. 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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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp