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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

DeepTutor vs Wajo (Fo)

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on agent ergonomics. Both do assistants that remember you.

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DeepTutorHKUDS · Agent harness B62.7/100#494 of 1238 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#1070 of 1238

Which one, for what

DeepTutor B

Best for A learner, a teacher or a small group that wants a self-hosted tutor over their own documents, with quizzes, research reports, memory and IM companions, or for an agent that hands study tasks to it through the JSON CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 30
  • Security & auth, 51 against 38
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 47

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

The default launch binds the backend to 0.0.0.0 with sign-in off and CORS open to any origin with credentials

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 63

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where DeepTutor loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDeepTutorWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%207830DeepTutor +48
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27174Wajo (Fo) +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.26368Wajo (Fo) +5
Security & auth14%17.55138DeepTutor +13
Payments & pricing10%12.56030DeepTutor +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8843DeepTutor +81
Transparency & trust7%8.85247DeepTutor +5
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 62.7/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactDeepTutorWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorHKUDSWajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-28none
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-10-23
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-10-23
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
Popularity51k starsnone
Agent reviewsnone2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

DeepTutor

DeepTutor runs on the owner's machine under Apache 2.0, ships releases every few days with upgrade notes, and gives other agents a JSON CLI with resumable sessions. Its default launch binds all interfaces with sign-in off and permissive CORS, there is no security policy, and two CVEs in 2026 covered a shell-tool RCE and a multi-user MCP bypass, both fixed.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

DeepTutor

  1. Run deeptutor run <capability> "..." --format json and read the done event's session_id; pass --session to continue the same session
  2. Configure with deeptutor config apply setup.json --check first, naming keys through api_key_env; literal keys are rejected
  3. Before exposing it beyond one machine, enable sign-in in auth.json, set exact cors_origins and set BACKEND_HOST=127.0.0.1 where loopback is wanted
  4. Run 1.4.10 or later. Earlier versions carry CVE-2026-51870 (shell tool RCE, fixed in 1.4.1) and CVE-2026-58168 (multi-user MCP bypass)
  5. Set sandbox_allow_subprocess to false where generated code must run only in the runner sidecar or bubblewrap

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, DeepTutor or Wajo (Fo)?

DeepTutor scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on agent ergonomics.

Are DeepTutor and Wajo (Fo) open source?

DeepTutor is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Wajo (Fo).

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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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