Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run
Boba vs Wajo (Fo)
Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.
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Which one, for what
Boba F
Best for Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.
Also in its favour
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.
Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 30 against 15
- Schema & documentation, 74 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 0
- Security & auth, 38 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 47 against 39
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
Watch for
No status page, changelog or security contact found.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Boba | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 15 | 30 | Wajo (Fo) +15 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 0 | 74 | Wajo (Fo) +74 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 0 | 68 | Wajo (Fo) +68 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 0 | 38 | Wajo (Fo) +38 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 2 | 3 | Wajo (Fo) +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 39 | 47 | Wajo (Fo) +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | F 10.3/100 | E 43.9/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Boba | Wajo (Fo) |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| 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 |
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.
Wajo (Fo)
Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.
Before you call either
Boba
- Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app.
- Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models.
Wajo (Fo)
- Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
- Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
- After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
- Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
- Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Boba or Wajo (Fo)?
Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.
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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.
Wajo (Fo) 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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