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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Boba vs Leon

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

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Bobahumans& ai, inc. · Platform F10.3/100#1004 of 1010 LeonLouis Grenard (Leon AI) · Agent harness E41/100#938 of 1010

Which one, for what

Boba F

Best for Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

Leon E

Best for A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 32 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 57 against 0
  • Security & auth, 34 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 15 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 39

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

No tagged release of the core since 1.0.0-beta.8 on 1 May 2023. The 2.0 Developer Preview is installed by cloning the develop branch

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBobaLeonEdge
Reliability16%201532Leon +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2033Leon +33
Agent ergonomics13%16.2057Leon +57
Security & auth14%17.5034Leon +34
Payments & pricing10%12.53060Leon +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8215Leon +13
Transparency & trust7%8.83960Leon +21
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 10.3/100E 41/100

Facts side by side

FactBobaLeon
KindPlatformAgent harness
Vendorhumans& ai, inc.Louis Grenard (Leon AI)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026).MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2023-05-01
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno 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
Popularitynone18k stars

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.

Leon

Connected-app credentials are encrypted per profile and the Gmail connection is read-only. The 2.0 Developer Preview has no tagged release, runs tools and a 30-minute proactive pulse with no approval step, listens on every network interface with client authentication off, and sends telemetry by default.

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.

Leon

  1. Clone the develop branch for 2.0. npm install --global @leon-ai/cli and docs.getleon.ai install and describe the legacy 1.0 betas
  2. Set client_interface.auth.enabled: true and a LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN before the machine joins a shared network. The server binds 0.0.0.0
  3. Set telemetry_enabled: false and runtime.pulse_enabled: false in the profile config.yml for an unattended or private run
  4. Use availability.tools.allowed to limit tools. Shell, file writes, computer use and browser control are otherwise available to the agent with no approval prompt
  5. Back up LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY from the profile .env. Without it the stored connections cannot be read

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boba or Leon?

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Boba and Leon open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boba. Leon is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

Boba 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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