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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

GAIA vs Wajo (Fo)

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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GAIAThe Experience Company · Platform D49.5/100#815 of 993 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#907 of 993

Which one, for what

GAIA D

Best for It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 30
  • Security & auth, 54 against 38
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 47

Watch for

The default approval mode in the source is always_allow, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.

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

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 51
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 54
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where GAIA loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGAIAWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%206730GAIA +37
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25174Wajo (Fo) +23
Agent ergonomics13%16.25468Wajo (Fo) +14
Security & auth14%17.55438GAIA +16
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Wajo (Fo) +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8783GAIA +75
Transparency & trust7%8.86047GAIA +13
Negative events≤15-50
TotalD 49.5/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactGAIAWajo (Fo)
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorThe Experience CompanyWajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicencePolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-14none
Terms last updated2026-08-14
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-07
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularity308 starsnone

Verdicts

GAIA

GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.

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

GAIA

  1. Set Settings > Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.
  2. Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.
  3. Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.
  4. For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.
  5. Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode.

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, GAIA or Wajo (Fo)?

GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing.

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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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