# Boba vs Lindy > Lindy scores 32.3 (F) 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-lindy - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.md (~3,200 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.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 Lindy scores 32.3 (F) 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 #1004 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json - Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #974 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.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. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### Lindy (F) Good for: Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule. Ahead on: - Reliability, 24 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 32 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0 - Security & auth, 49 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 35 against 30 - Maintenance & community, 9 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 52 against 39 Watch for: The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Boba | Lindy | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 24 | Lindy +9 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 32 | Lindy +32 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 43 | Lindy +43 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 49 | Lindy +49 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Lindy +5 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 9 | Lindy +7 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 39 | 52 | Lindy +13 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **32.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Boba | Lindy | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth | | Pricing | Free | Paid | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | yes | | Last release | none | 2025-10-21 | | Terms last updated | | 2026-09-24 | | Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-09-28 | | Customer content may train models | | not found in the text | | Terms restrict automated access | | yes | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes | | Terms or service can change without notice | | yes | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes | ## 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. **Lindy.** Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025. ## 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. ### Lindy 1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only. 2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing. 3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred. 4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first. 5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Boba or Lindy? Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boba", "b": "lindy"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare boba lindy` - Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json ## Other comparisons with Boba or Lindy - [asaply vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-boba.md) - [asaply vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-lindy.md) - [Asmi vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-boba.md) - [Asmi vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-lindy.md) - [AstrBot vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.md) - [Boba vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-boski.md) - [Boba vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-brea.md) - [Boba vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-caddy-app.md) - [Boba vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-cowagent.md) - [Boba vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del.md) - [Boba vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-folk-nozomio.md) - 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[Lindy vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw.md) - [Lindy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.md) - [Lindy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.md) - [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md) - [Lindy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md) - [Lindy vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.md) - [Lindy vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-natura.md) - [Lindy vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.md) - [Lindy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.md) - [Lindy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-wajo.md) - [Boba vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gemini-spark.md) - [Boba vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.md) - [Boba vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-talorys.md) - [Boba vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo.md) - [Lindy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.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.