{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "ghost-core", "name": "Core", "vendor": "Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)", "vendorUrl": "https://ghost.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Core is a personal AI computer from Ghost that runs open-weight language models and a memory of the owner's apps, files and devices at home, used through Ghost's apps and an OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint. On pre-order.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ghost-core.json", "license": "Not stated. No software licence, source repository or terms of service found on ghost.ai (checked 2026-10-05). Models listed are Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse-Glimmer-30B. Ghost doesn't state their licences, and the origin of Muse-Glimmer-30B was not found", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Not documented for the agent interface. Ghost's FAQ says Core exposes an endpoint compatible with the OpenAI Responses API but gives no address, port or authentication method, so keyless use isn't established. The Ghost app pairs with Core over the local network, remote access is for paired devices, and Ghost keeps device authorisation records. Online services use Ghost's gateway or the owner's own provider API keys. The privacy policy mentions device-access controls without detail (https://ghost.ai/core, https://ghost.ai/setup, https://ghost.ai/privacy, checked 2026-10-05).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "$3,499 one-off (USD, excluding VAT, tax calculated at checkout), with free shipping for batch 1, a 30-day return and a one-year warranty. Ghost states no subscription and no per-token inference fees. Some online services (web search, phone calls) run through Ghost-managed services with daily usage limits whose numbers aren't published, or through the owner's own API keys. Batch 1 showed sold out at 23:31 UTC on 5 October 2026, with a batch 2 interest form in place of the order button (https://ghost.ai/core, https://ghost.ai/privacy, https://ghost.ai/api/stock).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on ghost.ai or in its site code (checked 2026-10-05). Orders go through Stripe Checkout.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://ghost.ai/setup", "capabilities": [ "inference.local", "inference.open-weights", "memory.user", "memory.search", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "local", "closed-source", "paid", "openai-compatible", "desktop", "no-telemetry", "stripe" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Ghost Core 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 7.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 460, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 4, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 7, "security": 6, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-05. Ghost's home page says 'No data ever leaves your home' and 'Everything you do with Core is run locally' (seen at 23:31 UTC on 5 October 2026), and the FAQ says Core processes data 'entirely on-device', while the privacy policy, effective 4 October 2026, says web search, phone calls and email requests go through Ghost's gateway to third-party providers that may keep them unless the owner sets their own keys, and that remote access runs through Ghost's relay. A misleading claim, weighed as Screenpipe's README claim was. The policy and the FAQ's internet answer disclose the online services, they carry task requests rather than default-on analytics, and Core hadn't shipped, so the minimum, -2. https://ghost.ai/ ; https://ghost.ai/core ; https://ghost.ai/privacy" ], "verdict": "Ghost's privacy policy sets out what stays on Core, what passes through its gateway and relay, and how long Ghost keeps each record. For an agent, Core is unshipped, and its OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint has no published address, authentication, API reference or limits, with no terms of service found.", "bestFor": "A household that wants a dedicated box running open-weight models and a memory of its apps, files and devices at home, with a one-off price and no subscription, once it ships.", "disclosure": "Ghost Core 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.", "strengths": [ "Ghost says inference and memory run on Core with no remote model fallback, and states no subscription or per-token fee", "The privacy policy of 4 October 2026 states retention for each record Ghost keeps, such as 90 days after closure for support cases", "Ghost states it collects no product telemetry, usage analytics or diagnostic reports from Core or its apps", "The owner can replace Ghost-managed services with their own API keys, and the remote-access relay with a private network such as Tailscale", "Ghost's FAQ says Core exposes an OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint and names OpenCode, OpenClaw and Codex as clients" ], "weaknesses": [ "Not shipped on 5 October 2026. Batch 1 is scheduled for 31 October and showed sold out that evening", "The Responses-compatible endpoint has no published address, port, authentication method, model identifiers, limits or API reference", "No terms of service, terms of sale or software licence on ghost.ai, and no security.txt or disclosure policy", "Core can import saved passwords and signed-in sessions and act through the owner's accounts, with no confirmation step or injection guidance found", "The home page says no data ever leaves the home, while the privacy policy routes online services through Ghost's gateway to third parties" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan on reaching a Core before 31 October 2026. Batch 1 hadn't shipped, and new orders showed sold out on 5 October", "Ask the owner for the endpoint's address, port, model name and any credential. Ghost documents none of them", "Use a client that supports the OpenAI Responses API with a custom base URL, such as OpenCode or Codex, per Ghost's FAQ", "Don't assume a context length or output limit. Ghost states none for Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B or Muse-Glimmer-30B", "Treat memory and connected-account content as untrusted, and confirm with the owner before acting through imported browser sessions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 1, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 7.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 4, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 7, "security": 6, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ghost-core" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ZMJ, Inc., doing business as Ghost, 325 9th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States", "domain": "ghost.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://ghost.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-05", "notes": [ "The privacy policy, effective 4 October 2026, names ZMJ, Inc., doing business as Ghost, at 325 9th Street, San Francisco. The state of incorporation was not found.", "RDAP for ghost.ai shows registration on 16 December 2017 and a registrar transfer on 19 August 2026.", "ghost.ai/terms, /.well-known/security.txt, /llms.txt, /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml return 404. No GitHub organisation was found.", "The about page lists Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, Audacious, SV Angel and Z Fellows as backers, a vendor claim.", "Support is support@ghost.ai. The app page's troubleshooting link uses hello@tryghost.ai.", "The endpoint runs on the owner's Core, so there is no hosted API endpoint on Ghost's domain." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.json" }, "answer": "LocalGhost scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "localghost", "name": "LocalGhost", "vendor": "LocalGhost", "vendorUrl": "https://www.localghost.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Open-source personal AI server that runs on a Debian machine its owner keeps, archiving photos, location, notes, voice and health data and reading them with local models, with its own Android app as the only client.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json", "repo": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "No credential for third-party agents. The companion app presents a client certificate issued by the box's own certificate authority (ECDSA P-256, valid ten years, no scopes) and a session token of at most 48 hours from a PIN unlock, sent in a header. Enrolment is one animated QR code carrying a `localghost://enroll` link whose query string holds the device's certificate and private key. Since 2 October 2026 the box draws that QR only on an interactive terminal and never prints the link as text, and after the first unlock the phone swaps the QR's key for one it makes in the Android Keystore and the box retires the QR's certificate (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/rekey.go). A request without a valid certificate, from a retired phone or to a locked box gets the same 503. Since wisp 0.0.2 (2 October 2026) one phone can be retired by its key with ghost-cli ghost.secd retire or from another phone (POST /v1/devices/retire), and the retire button in the app isn't built yet. On a fresh box nginx terminates the phone's TLS and passes the device certificate to ghost.secd as an X-Client-Cert header that any local process on the box can forge, until the operator runs ghost-ctl edge-passthrough and writes tls to /etc/ghost/edge, after which ghost.secd checks the certificate itself (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/edge.go).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The software is free under MIT, with no subscription and no account. Nothing is on sale yet. Pre-built boxes are planned as a one-time purchase at the cost of parts and assembly plus a 30% margin, price not set, and optional future daemons may be sold as one-time packages. The June 2026 reference build is about £1,130 in parts (https://www.localghost.ai/about).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments of any kind. The software is free and nothing is sold yet (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/tools/README.md", "llmsTxt": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "local", "self-hosted", "open-source", "free", "go", "llms-txt", "no-telemetry", "pre-1.0", "uk" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "own": true, "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.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 343, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 39, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 55, "schema": 49, "security": 47, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-06" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-02 to 2026-10-04. The 0.0.1 notes of 2 October said never a location leaves the box, and the 0.0.3 notes of 3 October called the Open-Meteo call the one position that ever left either device, while the phone sent its position, rounded to two decimals, to Open-Meteo for a weather question naming no place until 0.0.3, and handed its newest fix to Android's geocoder, which on phones with Google's services usually reaches Google, until 0.0.4. Both lookups are gone, and the privacy page and llms.txt list each with the release that ended it. A misleading claim, fixed and documented, so the minimum, -2. https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/v0.0.4/server/releases/0.0.4.md; https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/v0.0.3/server/releases/0.0.3.md; https://www.localghost.ai/privacy" ], "verdict": "LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine, runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.5, answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents, and one unit test fails on the release and on main.", "bestFor": "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.", "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.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence for the server and the Android app, with a reproducible server bundle, a signed APK and signed sums for each release", "The v0.0.5 sums verify against the site key, which security.txt, SECURITY.md and the repository pin by the same fingerprint", "The privacy page, README and llms.txt list every outbound request, and the hosts in the v0.0.5 code match the list", "No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting in the server or the app", "Volume key sealed to the TPM, a wipe PIN, and lost phones retired one at a time by their key" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone", "CI read failing on 6 October 2026, and TestFetchListAndSpools fails at the v0.0.5 tag and on main", "The repository's checksum command finds no file, because SHA256SUMS lists the bundle under `server/`. The setup page's version strips the prefix and works", "Every API error reaches the phone as the same 503 page, so a client can't tell a bad request from a locked box", "Device certificates last ten years with no scopes, every enrolled phone has full owner rights, and a fresh box trusts a forgeable local header" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain \u003cbox name\u003e` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself", "Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key", "Install from the v0.0.5 release, not main, which carries unreleased 0.0.6 work" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 3, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 39, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 55, "schema": 49, "security": 47, "transparency": 82 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "LocalGhost.ai Ltd (company number 17213100, registered in England and Wales, incorporated 12 May 2026)", "domain": "localghost.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-12-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "changelog": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-06", "notes": [ "LocalGhost.ai Ltd is active at Companies House (company number 17213100, incorporated 12 May 2026, registered office in London, checked 6 October 2026) and is named on the about, privacy and terms pages. The `LICENSE` copyright line reads LocalGhostDao, which the terms page also names as the copyright holder.", "Self-hosted software with no hosted endpoint. The privacy page (updated 5 October 2026) and the terms page (updated 3 October 2026) cover the website, the mirror and the software. The status page, updated by hand and last on 2 October 2026, covers the website, the mirror and the releases and records no incidents.", "www.localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned a valid RFC 9116 file on 6 October 2026 (Contact, Expires 2027-10-01, Encryption, Preferred-Languages, Canonical, Policy). The key is the repository's server/tools/mirror-key.asc, fingerprint DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0, and the v0.0.5 SHA256SUMS.asc verified against it on 6 October 2026.", "The changelog page has a dated entry for each release from 0.0.1 to 0.0.5 and for mirror and page changes. RELEASES.md and server/releases/ in the code repository hold the notes per release.", "The privacy and mirror pages say the website and mirror keep no access logs. Whether the live server runs that configuration wasn't checked. The domain's registration date (17 December 2025, through Cloudflare, per the .ai RDAP record) is per the 3 October check." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.json", "live": { "slug": "localghost", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T01:26:06.669672591Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "LocalGhostDao/localghost", "version": "v0.0.5", "released": "2026-10-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T16:57:28.371158582Z" } ], "githubStars": 16, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-01T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:16:21.663661845Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:19:10.534091089Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "localghost.ai", "registered": "2025-12-17", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/localghost.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:18.163428935Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:03:23.299234421Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:03:23.299234421Z", "fingerprint": "76a7598111ed" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:03:25.307966283Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:03:25.307966283Z", "fingerprint": "9185da9c2cd0" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:03:27.310794927Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "422dab2e108c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:26:06.669672591Z" }, "vendorLinked": true }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model platform", "b": "Model platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.)", "b": "LocalGhost", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "Token", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Not stated. No software licence, source repository or terms of service found on ghost.ai (checked 2026-10-05). Models listed are Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse-Glimmer-30B. Ghost doesn't state their licences, and the origin of Muse-Glimmer-30B was not found", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "none", "b": "16 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (1)", "b": "2/5 (3)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "LocalGhost scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Core or LocalGhost?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Core. LocalGhost is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Core and LocalGhost open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A household that wants a dedicated box running open-weight models and a memory of its apps, files and devices at home, with a one-off price and no subscription, once it ships.", "slug": "ghost-core", "watchFor": "Not shipped on 5 October 2026. Batch 1 is scheduled for 31 October and showed sold out that evening" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 5", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 49 against 7", "Agent ergonomics, 39 against 4", "Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 6", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 3", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 45" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "localghost", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone" } ], "job": { "capability": "memory.search", "name": "Memory search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-ghost-core.json", "title": "AnythingLLM vs Core", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-ghost-core" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-gpt4all.json", "title": "Core vs GPT4All", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-gpt4all" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-jan.json", "title": "Core vs Jan", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-jan" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj.json", "title": "Core vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-llama-cpp.json", "title": "Core vs llama.cpp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-llama-cpp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-lm-studio.json", "title": "Core vs LM Studio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-lm-studio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localai.json", "title": "Core vs LocalAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-ollama.json", "title": "Core vs Ollama", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-ollama" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-open-webui.json", "title": "Core vs Open WebUI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-open-webui" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-screenpipe.json", "title": "Core vs screenpipe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-screenpipe" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Cognee vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Graphiti vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Hindsight vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Honcho vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.json", "title": "LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Khoj vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.json", "title": "LocalGhost vs screenpipe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 50, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 5, "key": "reliability", "localghost": 55, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 42, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 7, "key": "schema", "localghost": 49, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 4, "key": "ergonomics", "localghost": 39, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 41, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 6, "key": "security", "localghost": 47, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 50, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 10, "key": "payments", "localghost": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 75, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 3, "key": "maintenance", "localghost": 78, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 37, "edge": "localghost", "ghost-core": 45, "key": "transparency", "localghost": 82, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "LocalGhost scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do memory search.", "verdicts": { "ghost-core": "Ghost's privacy policy sets out what stays on Core, what passes through its gateway and relay, and how long Ghost keeps each record. For an agent, Core is unshipped, and its OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint has no published address, authentication, API reference or limits, with no terms of service found.", "localghost": "LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine, runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.5, answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents, and one unit test fails on the release and on main." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.min.md" }, "markdown": "LocalGhost scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do memory search.\n\n- Core: grade F, 7.3/100, rank #460 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ghost-core.json\n- LocalGhost: grade D, 53/100, rank #343 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Core (F)\n\nGood for: A household that wants a dedicated box running open-weight models and a memory of its apps, files and devices at home, with a one-off price and no subscription, once it ships.\n\nWatch for: Not shipped on 5 October 2026. Batch 1 is scheduled for 31 October and showed sold out that evening\n\n### LocalGhost (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 5\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 49 against 7\n- Agent ergonomics, 39 against 4\n- Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 6\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 3\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Core | LocalGhost | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 5 | 55 | LocalGhost +50 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 7 | 49 | LocalGhost +42 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 39 | LocalGhost +35 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 6 | 47 | LocalGhost +41 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 60 | LocalGhost +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 78 | LocalGhost +75 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 82 | LocalGhost +37 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **7.3 · F** | **53 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Core | LocalGhost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.) | LocalGhost |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Not stated. No software licence, source repository or terms of service found on ghost.ai (checked 2026-10-05). Models listed are Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse-Glimmer-30B. Ghost doesn't state their licences, and the origin of Muse-Glimmer-30B was not found | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-05 |\n| Popularity | none | 16 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (1) | 2/5 (3) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Core.** Ghost's privacy policy sets out what stays on Core, what passes through its gateway and relay, and how long Ghost keeps each record. For an agent, Core is unshipped, and its OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint has no published address, authentication, API reference or limits, with no terms of service found.\n\n**LocalGhost.** LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine, runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.5, answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents, and one unit test fails on the release and on main.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Core\n\n1. Don't plan on reaching a Core before 31 October 2026. Batch 1 hadn't shipped, and new orders showed sold out on 5 October\n2. Ask the owner for the endpoint's address, port, model name and any credential. Ghost documents none of them\n3. Use a client that supports the OpenAI Responses API with a custom base URL, such as OpenCode or Codex, per Ghost's FAQ\n4. Don't assume a context length or output limit. Ghost states none for Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B or Muse-Glimmer-30B\n5. Treat memory and connected-account content as untrusted, and confirm with the owner before acting through imported browser sessions\n\n### LocalGhost\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain \u003cbox name\u003e` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself\n4. Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key\n5. Install from the v0.0.5 release, not main, which carries unreleased 0.0.6 work\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Core or LocalGhost?\n\nLocalGhost scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Core and LocalGhost open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Core. LocalGhost is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"ghost-core\", \"b\": \"localghost\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare ghost-core localghost`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ghost-core.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Core or LocalGhost\n\n- [AnythingLLM vs Core](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-ghost-core.md)\n- [Core vs GPT4All](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-gpt4all.md)\n- [Core vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-jan.md)\n- [Core vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Core vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [Core vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Core vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localai.md)\n- [Core vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-ollama.md)\n- [Core vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [Core vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [Cognee vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Graphiti vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Honcho vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-supermemory.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-zep.md)\n- [Core vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-underdog.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localghost.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Ghost Core 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.\n- 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. 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