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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Boski vs GAIA

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 GAIAThe Experience Company · Platform D49.5/100#816 of 1010

Which one, for what

Boski F

Best for People who want an agent working on personal goals between conversations, and who want ChatGPT or Codex to read their saved preferences.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where GAIA loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

GAIA D

Best for It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 51 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 13
  • Security & auth, 54 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 23

Watch for

The default approval mode in the source is always_allow, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiGAIAEdge
Reliability16%202567GAIA +42
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21551GAIA +36
Agent ergonomics13%16.21354GAIA +41
Security & auth14%17.54554GAIA +9
Payments & pricing10%12.51020GAIA +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82378GAIA +55
Transparency & trust7%8.86360Boski +3
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 26.2/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiGAIA
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.The Experience Company
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-14
Terms last updated2026-08-14
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-07
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone308 stars

Verdicts

Boski

Boski is a hosted personal agent that works on its owner's goals over messaging channels for $5 a week, and its plugin lets ChatGPT and Codex read saved preferences under a read-only OAuth scope. No free option, status page or security contact was found, and the plugin's tool definitions weren't readable.

GAIA

GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.

Before you call either

Boski

  1. Use the Boski plugin only to read the owner's saved preferences and constraints. It can't save changes.
  2. Ask the owner to finish Boski's onboarding interview if the plugin says it's incomplete, then retry.

GAIA

  1. Set Settings > Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.
  2. Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.
  3. Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.
  4. For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.
  5. Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or GAIA?

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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Disclosure

Boski 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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