# Boba vs Lobby

> Lobby and Boba score within a point of each other for assistants that remember you, 11.1 and 10.3 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Lobby and Boba score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 11.1 (F) and 10.3 (F). Boba leads on payments & pricing. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1184 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json
- Lobby: grade F, 11.1/100, rank #1182 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lobby-os.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1006 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.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

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

### Lobby (F)

Good for: A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 10 against 0

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.0 against 1.5 out of 5

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Boba | Lobby | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 10 | Lobby +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Boba +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 2 | even |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 39 | 43 | Lobby +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **11.1 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Boba | Lobby |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | Lobby OS, Inc. |
| 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). | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Terms last updated |  |  |
| Privacy policy last updated |  |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |

## 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.

**Lobby.** Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026.

## 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.

### Lobby

1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner.
2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app.
3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Boba or Lobby?

Lobby and Boba score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 11.1 (F) and 10.3 (F). Boba leads on payments & pricing.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lobby-os.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lobby-os.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boba", "b": "lobby-os"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare boba lobby-os`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json

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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.
- Lobby 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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