# Boski vs OpenClaw > OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) to Boski's 26.2 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.md (~3,350 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants. - Boski: grade F, 26.2/100, rank #981 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boski.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.json - OpenClaw: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #270 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 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. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them Watch for: No free plan or trial found. ### OpenClaw (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete. Ahead on: - Reliability, 75 against 25 - Schema & documentation, 84 against 15 - Agent ergonomics, 77 against 13 - Security & auth, 74 against 45 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 10 - Maintenance & community, 86 against 23 - Transparency & trust, 68 against 63 Also in its favour: - Open source Watch for: Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Boski | OpenClaw | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 75 | OpenClaw +50 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 84 | OpenClaw +69 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 13 | 77 | OpenClaw +64 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 74 | OpenClaw +29 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 60 | OpenClaw +50 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 86 | OpenClaw +63 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 68 | OpenClaw +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -8 | | | **Total** | | **26.2 · F** | **67.1 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Boski | OpenClaw | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Boski, Inc. | OpenClaw Foundation | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026). | MIT | | Read-only variant documented | yes | yes | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | none | 2026-10-12 | | Terms last updated | | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | | no 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 | | | | Popularity | none | 392k 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. **OpenClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical. ## 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. ### OpenClaw 1. Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval 2. Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default 3. Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation 4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it 5. Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Boski or OpenClaw? OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Boski and OpenClaw open source? No open-source release is listed for Boski. OpenClaw is open source (MIT). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boski", "b": "openclaw"}`. 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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.