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

HireAlpha vs Leon

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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HireAlphaHireAlpha · Platform F8.4/100#1005 of 1010 LeonLouis Grenard (Leon AI) · Agent harness E41/100#938 of 1010

Which one, for what

HireAlpha F

Best for A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.

Leon E

Best 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

  • Reliability, 32 against 10
  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 57 against 0
  • Security & auth, 34 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 15 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 24

Also in its favour

  • 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

CategoryWeight this runHireAlphaLeonEdge
Reliability16%201032Leon +22
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21033Leon +23
Agent ergonomics13%16.2057Leon +57
Security & auth14%17.5034Leon +34
Payments & pricing10%12.52060Leon +40
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8215Leon +13
Transparency & trust7%8.82460Leon +36
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 8.4/100E 41/100

Facts side by side

FactHireAlphaLeon
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHireAlphaLouis Grenard (Leon AI)
Hosted endpointhttps://hirealpha.chat/api/publicno (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site.MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last releasenone2023-05-01
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone18k stars

Verdicts

HireAlpha

HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.

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

HireAlpha

  1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.
  2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.
  3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.

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, HireAlpha or Leon?

Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are HireAlpha and Leon open source?

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

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Disclosure

HireAlpha 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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