# Boba vs Leon > Leon scores 41 (E) to Boba's 10.3 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.md (~3,200 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.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 - Updated: 2026-10-13 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. - Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1004 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json - Leon: grade E, 41/100, rank #938 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.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 ### Boba (F) Good for: Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images. Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### Leon (E) Good 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 | Category | Weight | Boba | Leon | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 32 | Leon +17 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 33 | Leon +33 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 57 | Leon +57 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 34 | Leon +34 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Leon +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 15 | Leon +13 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 39 | 60 | Leon +21 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **41 · E** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Boba | Leon | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | Louis Grenard (Leon AI) | | 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). | MIT | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | none | 2023-05-01 | | 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 | none | 18k 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). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boba", "b": "leon"}`. 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[Leon vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-talorys.md) - [Leon vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openinstinct.md) ## 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.