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

Boski vs Dots

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 DotsOpenAI · Platform F28.3/100#980 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 25 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 31

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Dots F

Best for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 41 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 22 against 13
  • Security & auth, 58 against 45
  • Maintenance & community, 38 against 23

Watch for

Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiDotsEdge
Reliability16%20253Boski +22
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21541Dots +26
Agent ergonomics13%16.21322Dots +9
Security & auth14%17.54558Dots +13
Payments & pricing10%12.51010even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82338Dots +15
Transparency & trust7%8.86331Boski +32
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 26.2/100F 28.3/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiDots
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.OpenAI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-10-09
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
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

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.

Dots

Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

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.

Dots

  1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
  2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
  3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
  4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
  5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or Dots?

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on reliability 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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