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

Boski vs Lindy

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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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.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 23 against 9
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 52

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Lindy F

Best 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

  • Schema & documentation, 32 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 13
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 10

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

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

CategoryWeight this runBoskiLindyEdge
Reliability16%202524Boski +1
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21532Lindy +17
Agent ergonomics13%16.21343Lindy +30
Security & auth14%17.54549Lindy +4
Payments & pricing10%12.51035Lindy +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8239Boski +14
Transparency & trust7%8.86352Boski +11
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 26.2/100F 32.3/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiLindy
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)
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).Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2025-10-21
Terms last updated2026-09-24
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-28
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

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.

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

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.

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, Boski or Lindy?

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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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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