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

Boski vs QwenPaw

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 QwenPawAgentScope · Agent harness B62.2/100#454 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

  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 56

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

QwenPaw B

Best for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 68 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 13
  • Security & auth, 60 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 73 against 23

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Usage data is on by default, qwenpaw init --defaults accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiQwenPawEdge
Reliability16%202570QwenPaw +45
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21568QwenPaw +53
Agent ergonomics13%16.21367QwenPaw +54
Security & auth14%17.54560QwenPaw +15
Payments & pricing10%12.51060QwenPaw +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82373QwenPaw +50
Transparency & trust7%8.86356Boski +7
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 26.2/100B 62.2/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiQwenPaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorBoski, Inc.AgentScope
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2026-09-11
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
Popularitynone36k 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.

QwenPaw

Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.

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.

QwenPaw

  1. Set QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true before qwenpaw init --defaults or qwenpaw app. Both send usage data without asking
  2. Set approval_level to STRICT or SMART in agent.json. The default AUTO runs every tool call no guard rule flags
  3. Set dm_policy and group_policy to allowlist with allow_from on each channel. Both default to open
  4. Set QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then
  5. Keep mail tools on ask for send_message, delete_message and delete_thread, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or QwenPaw?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust.

Are Boski and QwenPaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boski. QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0).

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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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