# Grok Bot vs Leon

> Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) to Leon's 41 (E) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.md (~2,600 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-12

Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do assistant proactive.

- Grok Bot: grade E, 45.2/100, rank #893 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json
- Leon: grade E, 41/100, rank #934 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Grok Bot (E)

Good for: A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 40 against 32
- Schema & documentation, 40 against 33
- Security & auth, 68 against 34
- Maintenance & community, 20 against 15
- Transparency & trust, 66 against 60

Watch for: All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary

### Leon (E)

Good for: A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 50
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 25

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: No tagged release of the core since 1.0.0-beta.8 on 1 May 2023. The 2.0 Developer Preview is installed by cloning the develop branch


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | Leon | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 32 | Grok Bot +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 33 | Grok Bot +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 57 | Leon +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 34 | Grok Bot +34 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Leon +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 15 | Grok Bot +5 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 60 | Grok Bot +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **45.2 · E** | **41 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Grok Bot | Leon |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) | Louis Grenard (Leon AI) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | none | 2023-05-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | none | 18k stars |

## Verdicts

**Grok Bot.** Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.

**Leon.** Connected-app credentials are encrypted per profile and the Gmail connection is read-only. The 2.0 Developer Preview has no tagged release, runs tools and a 30-minute proactive pulse with no approval step, listens on every network interface with client authentication off, and sends telemetry by default.

## Before you call either

### Grok Bot

1. State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules
2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match
3. Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials
4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools
5. To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough

### Leon

1. Clone the develop branch for 2.0. `npm install --global @leon-ai/cli` and docs.getleon.ai install and describe the legacy 1.0 betas
2. Set `client_interface.auth.enabled: true` and a `LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN` before the machine joins a shared network. The server binds 0.0.0.0
3. Set `telemetry_enabled: false` and `runtime.pulse_enabled: false` in the profile `config.yml` for an unattended or private run
4. Use `availability.tools.allowed` to limit tools. Shell, file writes, computer use and browser control are otherwise available to the agent with no approval prompt
5. Back up `LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` from the profile `.env`. Without it the stored connections cannot be read

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Leon?

Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing.

### Are Grok Bot and Leon open source?

No open-source release is listed for Grok Bot. Leon is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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