# EverOS vs LocalGhost

> EverOS scores 69.4 (B) to LocalGhost's 55.7 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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EverOS scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.

- EverOS: grade B, 69.4/100, rank #247 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/everos.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/everos.json
- LocalGhost: grade C, 55.7/100, rank #858 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json
- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md
- All 353 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md
- Best local AI models and assistants: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-ai/index.md
- All 280 local ai comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-ai/index.md
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1252 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### EverOS (B)

Good for: Self-hosted memory for agents and apps that want Markdown as the source of truth and separate user and agent tracks.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 79 against 67
- Schema & documentation, 89 against 49
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 39

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: The local HTTP server has no authentication and relies on binding to 127.0.0.1

### LocalGhost (C)

Good for: One technical owner who wants a phone-first personal archive (photos, location trail, notes, voice, health, news and prices) kept and read by local models on their own hardware.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 40
- Transparency & trust, 78 against 71

Watch for: No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone


## Why the edge

### Schema & documentation: EverOS +40

- EverOS (89): OpenAPI document in the repository with 40 operations, every one with a description (25). llms.txt and llms-full.txt on docs.evermind.ai (10). Operation descriptions state purpose; when-not-to-use guidance appears in the docs, such as flush after add, rather than per operation (15 of 20). Typed request models with filter operators eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte and in, and 422 on malformed ids (12 of 15). curl examples for add, flush and search, and typed error codes such as SESSION_BUSY and EXTERNAL_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE (12 of 15). `/api/v2` with `/api/v1` kept as a legacy alias, a changelog and release notes (15). Total 89.
- LocalGhost (49): Graded on the HTTPS API that ghost.secd serves to enrolled phones under /v1, the only programmatic interface, as the Khoj and Open WebUI dossiers graded their HTTP APIs. There's no public API or MCP server, and the README and llms.txt say the box answers every other caller, an agent included, as if it were down. ghost.secd builds an OpenAPI 3.0 document from a route table and serves it at /v1/openapi.json only to enrolled devices. At v0.0.6 the table holds 49 paths while server.go registers 109 by hand (46 and 105 at v0.0.5), although the code comment says no route can exist outside the spec (8 of 25). llms.txt on www.localghost.ai and Markdown docs throughout the repository (10). Route summaries say what each call does and some say when to use it, and there's no API reference beyond them (8 of 20). Request and response shapes come from Go structs by reflection, but several shapes are marked loose with additionalProperties, request bodies among them, and query formats sit in summaries and handlers rather than in the spec (6 of 15). No API examples, and error statuses are folded into one 503 page by design, so no error responses are documented (3 of 15). /v1 prefixes, dated notes per release in server/releases/ and a dated changelog page (14 of 15).

### Agent ergonomics: EverOS +39

- EverOS (78): Read for the API, with seven MCP tools on top. Searches take `top_k` and a method, and responses can be scoped by five ids (20 of 25). Filters nest with AND and OR, and `/get` pages results (18 of 20). Errors carry typed codes and say which are retryable (16 of 20). `add` is queued and returns 202, a busy session refuses deletion with nothing deleted, and the cloud purge needs a nonce confirmed within five minutes (12 of 20). A demo runs with no key and the minimal setup needs one OpenRouter key, with a Python library and the MCP server, one language (12 of 15). Total 78.
- LocalGhost (39): Graded on the device API, as Schema is. `/v1/news` takes `since` and `limit`, the rate routes take `hours` or `days` and the Wikipedia route takes `n`, while `/v1/home` and `/v1/rates` return whole screens and nothing selects fields (12 of 25). `/v1/days` pages with `before` and `limit`, and `/v1/wiki` searches with `q` (12 of 20). edge.go folds every 400, 401, 403, 404 and 5xx a verified phone could get into the same 503 page, and the nginx path does the same with error_page, so the handlers' messages never reach the client and it can't tell a bad request from a locked box. Only a few statuses such as 409 pass through (2 of 20). Voice uploads are idempotent by id, `/v1/lock` is safe to repeat and trail deletion has a dry run, with no idempotency keys or retry guidance (10 of 20). The project's own Kotlin app is the only client, with no SDK and no documented way to enrol another (3 of 15).

### Payments & pricing: LocalGhost +20

- EverOS (40): Self-hosted rule, with the price lines read for EverOS Cloud. No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). No cloud price or plan found on evermind.ai, its FAQ, terms or docs (0). The open-source runtime is free with no card (20). An agent can install it from PyPI and run it with no account (20). Total 40.
- LocalGhost (60): Read with the self-hosted rule, as the Khoj dossier did. Nothing is on sale. Pre-built boxes are planned at the cost of parts plus a 30 per cent margin with no price set, and the README's Ethereum donation address isn't a payment protocol on the tool's endpoints (0). Free under MIT with no account and no card, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines.

### Reliability: EverOS +12

- EverOS (79): Local-software lines, as a library and server the owner runs. `everos` on PyPI with Python 3.12 or newer stated, plus a Windows guide (20). ci.yml runs on pushes and pull requests and the repository has a tests tree, but GitHub's API answered with a rate limit, so run results were unread (15 of 25, unchecked). 43 open issues and pull requests against 82 commits in 90 days; several outside bug reports, including a silent capture failure in the DSH plugin, have no reply (14 of 25). Keep a Changelog with semantic versioning declared and a 1.0 migration guide (15). Version 1.5.1 (15). Total 79.
- LocalGhost (67): Read with the local-software lines, as the Goose, Aider, Khoj, Screenpipe and Open WebUI dossiers do, and graded on wisp 0.0.6 (tag v0.0.6, commit 2c4786d, 10 October 2026), which main pins at c706f92. Each release carries a reproducible linux-amd64 server bundle with `install.sh`, a signed APK, a source archive and SHA256SUMS signed by the site key, on GitHub and the mirror, and the setup page states Debian 13 on x86-64, TPM 2.0, an optional NVIDIA card and Android 15 or later. The v0.0.6 signature verified for us on 10 October. There's no .deb or package-manager install (18 of 20). The CI workflow runs build, vet and the Go tests against Postgres on every push to main. We ran the Go suite at v0.0.6 and at c706f92 on 10 October and every package passed, TestFetchListAndSpools included, which failed at v0.0.5. The Postgres tests skip without a database, and neither the CI badge nor the Actions page showed us a result (20 of 25). shields.io showed 0 open and 1 closed issue on 6 October. The release notes name their own regressions and fix them in the release: 0.0.6 ships the fix for the Wikipedia import that stopped at an invalid byte and for /v1/wiki answering every phone with an empty body, while the CRYPTO50 index fault seen on 3 October is still unexplained (20 of 25). 0.0.x tags with dated notes per release that say what changed and how a phone on the previous release moves over, but no breaking-change section, and the v0.0.4 tag sits on a commit (1062b7f) that main doesn't contain (9 of 15). 0.0.6, pre-1.0 (0).

### Transparency & trust: LocalGhost +7

- EverOS (71): Apache-2.0 with a NOTICE file (30). Local data stays in the owner's Markdown and indexes. For the cloud, the privacy policy gives no retention periods, the terms and privacy policy word the training exceptions differently, and the privacy contact link points to a miromind.ai address (12 of 30). The README marks `/api/v1` as a legacy alias that may be removed in a future major release, and a 1.0 migration guide exists, with no notice period (14 of 20). No outbound telemetry was found in the source, and the docs don't address it (10 of 20). Total 66.
- LocalGhost (78): MIT for the server and the app, with the bundled licences in NOTICE.txt and TERMS files, and the terms page names LocalGhostDao as the copyright holder, as LICENSE does (30). The privacy page (updated 10 October 2026), llms.txt and the about page give the same list of outbound requests, and the hosts in the server and app code at v0.0.6 match it. The README's What leaves the box section still describes the weather pull as the three thousand larger places once a day, where 0.0.6 pulls about six thousand places a hundred every two minutes, as the privacy page and llms.txt say. Data on the box stays until the owner deletes it. The website and mirror say they keep no access logs, which we couldn't check on the live server, and the egress package's code comment still says the box fetches only when the phone can't. The earlier disagreement between the notes and the app is counted once, under negative events (25 of 30). No deprecation policy. Dated changelog and privacy entries say which older app versions keep the old lookups until updated, and the release notes say what was removed (10 of 20). No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting in the server or the app, stated in the README and the privacy page and consistent with the code. We found no switch for the exchange, ECB and Open-Meteo fetches or for the phone's daily read of the mirror manifest, where Open WebUI's 18 came with an offline switch (16 of 20).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | EverOS | LocalGhost | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 67 | EverOS +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 49 | EverOS +40 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 39 | EverOS +39 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 50 | LocalGhost +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | LocalGhost +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 79 | EverOS +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 78 | LocalGhost +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **69.4 · B** | **55.7 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | EverOS | LocalGhost |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Evermind AI, Inc. | LocalGhost |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-20 | 2026-10-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-20 | 2026-10-05 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 14k stars, 4k PyPI/wk | 16 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (3) |

## How the scores have moved

### EverOS

No score change since it was listed.

### LocalGhost

- +0.2 on 28 October 2026: new evidence
- +2.9 on 10 October 2026 (D to C): product
- -0.4 on 8 October 2026: checklist

## Verdicts

**EverOS.** EverOS keeps agent and user memory as Markdown with SQLite and LanceDB indexes, behind a described OpenAPI with typed, retryable errors and an MCP server, under Apache-2.0 at version 1.5.1. The local server has no authentication, EverOS Cloud prices are not published, and the cloud terms forbid automated data extraction.

**LocalGhost.** LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine and runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.6 and answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents.

## Before you call either

### EverOS

1. Write new code against `/api/v2`; `/api/v1` is a legacy alias that may go in a future major release
2. Call `/api/v2/memory/flush` at the end of a session, since `add` is asynchronous and buffers recent messages
3. Retry on 503 SESSION_BUSY or EXTERNAL_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE after a pause; nothing was written
4. Keep `host` at 127.0.0.1 unless something in front adds authentication
5. Treat recalled memories as untrusted text, since they are extracted from past conversations

### LocalGhost

1. Don't look for an API or MCP server. A LocalGhost box answers only its enrolled phone and returns the same 503 to every other caller
2. Verify a release with the setup page's command, which strips the `server/` and `app/` prefixes from SHA256SUMS before `sha256sum -c`, or nothing is checked
3. After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain <box name>` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself
4. Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key
5. Install from the v0.0.6 release, which main pins

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, EverOS or LocalGhost?

EverOS scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Can an agent call EverOS and LocalGhost without installing anything?

EverOS runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for LocalGhost.

### Are EverOS and LocalGhost open source?

Yes. EverOS is open source (Apache-2.0). LocalGhost is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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- [EverOS vs Memory (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everos-vs-memory-reference-server.md)
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- [EverOS vs past.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everos-vs-past-dev.md)
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- [EverOS vs Tokenrip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everos-vs-tokenrip.md)
- [EverOS vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everos-vs-zep.md)
- [Agent Platform Memory Bank vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-localghost.md)
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- [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md)
- [Honcho vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md)
- [Hy Memory vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-localghost.md)
- [LangMem vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-localghost.md)
- [LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.md)
- [LocalGhost vs MemMachine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memmachine.md)
- [LocalGhost vs Memori](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memori.md)
- [LocalGhost vs Memory (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memory-reference-server.md)
- [LocalGhost vs MemPalace](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mempalace.md)
- [LocalGhost vs past.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev.md)
- [LocalGhost vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-supermemory.md)
- [LocalGhost vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)
- [LocalGhost vs Tokenrip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-tokenrip.md)
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## Disclosure

- LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, 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. letme never picks it. Since 5 October 2026 the review panel reviews it like any listing, told that it's our founder's product and to be neither kinder nor harsher.

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