# Boski vs Lobby

> Boski scores 26.2 (F) to Lobby's 11.1 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Boski: grade F, 26.2/100, rank #1130 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boski.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.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

### Boski (F)

Good 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:
- Reliability, 25 against 15
- Schema & documentation, 15 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 13 against 0
- Security & auth, 45 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 23 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 43

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for: No free plan or trial found.

### 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:
- Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Boski | Lobby | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 15 | Boski +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 10 | Boski +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 13 | 0 | Boski +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 0 | Boski +45 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Lobby +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 2 | Boski +21 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 43 | Boski +20 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **26.2 · F** | **11.1 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Boski | Lobby |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Boski, Inc. | Lobby OS, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026). | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | 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 | 2.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |

## 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.

**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

### 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.

### 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, Boski or Lobby?

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on payments & pricing.


## For agents

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

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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.
- 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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