{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "honcho", "name": "Honcho", "vendor": "Plastic Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://honcho.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "Memory API that models each participant (a peer) in a conversation.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honcho.json", "repo": "https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho", "license": "AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.honcho.dev/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "honcho-ai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@honcho-ai/sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer API key (`hch-...`) on api.honcho.dev. The create-key endpoint mints further keys scoped to a workspace, peer or session, with an optional expiry, and they're revocable from the API Keys page. The hosted MCP at mcp.honcho.dev takes a key as a Bearer header or an OAuth token, plus an optional workspace header. The AgentCash endpoints take x402 or MPP payment instead of a key, with wallet sign-in for the free ones.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Ingestion (storage plus background reasoning) is $2.00 per million, and queries through `chat` cost $0.001 (minimal), $0.01 (low), $0.05 (medium), $0.10 (high) or $0.50 (max) each. Context retrieval is listed as unlimited. Startups that have raised under $5 million get $1,000 of credit and 12 months of subsidised pricing (https://honcho.dev/). New organisations get $100 of free credit (https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho). Over x402 the ingestion price is $2 per million tokens of message content, with a $0.001 minimum and a $5.00 maximum per call (https://agentcash.honcho.dev/openapi.json).", "priceSummary": "$0.001 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "An AgentCash storefront at agentcash.honcho.dev lists 16 POST endpoints under /api/honcho/. Storing messages and chat are paid over x402 or Tempo MPP on Base, Solana or Tempo. Messages cost $2 per million tokens (minimum $0.001, maximum $5.00), chat $0.001 to $0.50 by reasoning level, and the other endpoints are free (https://agentcash.honcho.dev/openapi.json, checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://agentcash.honcho.dev/api/honcho/messages", "priceUsd": 0.001, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://agentcash.honcho.dev/api/honcho/chat", "priceUsd": 0.001, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 7400, "npmWeekly": 17913, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://honcho.dev/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://honcho.dev/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://honcho.dev/docs/v3/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.plastic-labs/honcho", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "x402", "stablecoin", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "open-source", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 188, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 80, "reliability": 50, "schema": 79, "security": 48, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Pay per call over x402 or MPP at agentcash.honcho.dev, with free read endpoints. No published rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA.", "strengths": [ "Pay per call over x402 or MPP at agentcash.honcho.dev, with free read endpoints", "Keys can be minted per workspace, peer or session, with an expiry, through the API", "Context retrieval listed as unlimited, with reasoning billed only when you call chat", "Hosted MCP in the official registry, plus OpenAPI specs for v1 to v3", "AGPL-3.0 server, the same code that runs the hosted service" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA", "Changelog entries carry no dates and the repo has no GitHub releases", "The MCP tool list is sent on connect, not documented", "No security.txt, audit log or prompt-injection guidance found", "AGPL-3.0 server licence" ], "agentNotes": [ "Get or create the workspace with POST /v3/workspaces before writing sessions and messages", "Batch up to 100 messages per request, each under 25,000 characters", "Use context retrieval for routine turns and save `chat` at high or max for questions that need it, since max costs 500 times minimal", "Mint a peer- or session-scoped key with an expiry for any agent that shouldn't see the whole workspace", "Over x402, batch messages rather than sending them singly, as each paid call has a $0.001 floor" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 80, "reliability": 50, "schema": 79, "security": 48, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install honcho-ai # or: npm install @honcho-ai/sdk", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.honcho.dev/v3/workspaces -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HONCHO_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"id\":\"workspace-123\",\"metadata\":{}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add honcho --transport http \"https://mcp.honcho.dev\" --header \"Authorization: Bearer $HONCHO_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "honcho": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${HONCHO_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev" } } }, "x402": "curl -s -i -X POST https://agentcash.honcho.dev/api/honcho/messages -H 'content-type: application/json'\n# 402 -\u003e pay over x402 (USDC on eip155:8453, or Solana) or Tempo MPP -\u003e retry. Request schemas at https://agentcash.honcho.dev/openapi.json" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/honcho" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Ingestion", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "Storage plus background reasoning. $0.001 minimum per call over x402" }, { "item": "chat, minimal reasoning", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.001 }, { "item": "chat, low reasoning", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01 }, { "item": "chat, medium reasoning", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.05 }, { "item": "chat, high reasoning", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.1 }, { "item": "chat, max reasoning", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Plastic Labs, Inc.", "domain": "honcho.dev", "domainRegistered": "2022-01-26", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://app.honcho.dev/tos", "privacy": "https://app.honcho.dev/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.honcho.dev", "changelog": "https://honcho.dev/docs/changelog/introduction", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The terms name Plastic Labs, Inc., 169 Madison Avenue, New York, with arbitration in New York. They carry no last-updated date.", "honcho.dev/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The x402 storefront runs on the AgentCash platform at agentcash.honcho.dev, a subdomain of honcho.dev." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.json", "live": { "slug": "honcho", "probe": { "target": "https://api.honcho.dev/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:27.078808811Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 368, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 134, "p95ms24h": 408, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 938, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 38, "ok": 38 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.honcho.dev", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:07.625291507Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "plastic-labs/honcho", "version": "v3.2.2", "released": "2026-10-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:43.003735943Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.plastic-labs/honcho", "version": "3.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@honcho-ai/sdk", "version": "2.5.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:42.159609996Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "honcho-ai", "version": "2.5.1", "released": "2026-09-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:41.976308274Z" } ], "githubStars": 7458, "npmWeekly": 25534, "pypiWeekly": 131942, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://honcho.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:39.261197499Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://honcho.dev/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:52.175463718Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "honcho.dev", "registered": "2022-01-26", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/honcho.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:16.292768042Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://honcho.dev/docs/changelog/introduction", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:02.026293636Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "602071e4bfee" }, { "url": "https://app.honcho.dev/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:15.347297508Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9da63f6bcbbd" }, { "url": "https://app.honcho.dev/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:17.505463097Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f178ff16d893" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:27.078808811Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "localghost", "name": "LocalGhost", "vendor": "LocalGhost", "vendorUrl": "https://www.localghost.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Pre-release, open-source personal AI server that runs on hardware its owner keeps, started in London in December 2025.", "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" ], "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. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 396, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 2, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 44, "security": 52, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-19 to 2026-10-03, unfixed at HEAD d4decab. The README ('One thing leaves the phone'), the privacy page ('The phone talks to your box and nothing else, apart from two things'), the setup page ('The phone sends one thing') and llms.txt ('no position leaves either device') describe less than the app sends. Since 19 September it passes each new location fix to Android's system Geocoder when the phone has moved 20 km or 12 hours have passed, a network call on some phones by its own code comment, and since 20 September it sends currency amounts to api.frankfurter.app and who-is subjects to Wikipedia's summary API, named only in the engineering journal, though the chat shows those two as sources when it uses them. Until 0.0.3 the same claim stood while the app sent the phone's position to Open-Meteo for a weather question naming no place. wisp 0.0.3 removed that call on 3 October and its notes, the privacy page, llms.txt and the changelog say so, so that part adds nothing. One misleading claim, still partly false, -3. https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/app/android/app/src/main/java/com/localghost/app/sync/LocationLog.kt; https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/app/android/app/src/main/java/com/localghost/app/net/WebSearch.kt; https://www.localghost.ai/privacy" ], "verdict": "The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.", "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. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.", "strengths": [ "MIT for the server and the Android app, with no telemetry, analytics or crash-reporting library in either", "The archive sits on a LUKS2 volume whose key is sealed to the TPM through go-tpm and opened by a PIN from the phone, with a wipe PIN that answers like a wrong one", "Per-device client certificates from the box's own CA, rekeyed into the Android Keystore at the first unlock since 2 October 2026, and one phone can be retired by its key since 0.0.2", "Server releases are built with CGO off, -trimpath and no build id, the v0.0.3 source archive matches the tag's 846 files, and SHA256SUMS.asc verifies against the key in the repository (DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0)", "A valid RFC 9116 security.txt to 2027-10-01 and a SECURITY.md with PGP, a 72-hour acknowledgement, 90-day disclosure and a commitment not to sue" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or SDK for agents, and every caller but the paired phone gets the same 503 as a box that is down", "The app sends currency questions to Frankfurter, who-is questions to Wikipedia and location fixes to Android's geocoder, none of them named in the README, privacy page or llms.txt", "Release binaries are built with Go 1.25.4, and the 35 standard-library advisories fixed in Go 1.25.5 to 1.25.13 include crypto/tls, crypto/x509 and net/http", "Pre-1.0 at 0.0.3, three releases within 16 hours, CI one day old, and the app's 50 JVM test files have no passing CI run while the README and CONTRIBUTING.md say they run on every push", "A fresh box trusts a device-certificate header any local process can forge until the operator runs `ghost-ctl edge-passthrough`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage", "Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent", "Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which", "Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder", "Run `ghost-cli ghost.\u003cname\u003e commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 2, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 44, "security": 52, "transparency": 72 }, "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": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "LocalGhost.ai Ltd is active at Companies House (company number 17213100, incorporated 12 May 2026, registered office in London, checked 3 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 and terms pages, both updated 3 October 2026, cover the website, the mirror and the software. The status page (updated 2 October 2026) covers the website, the mirror and the releases, is updated by hand and records no incidents since it started on 2 October 2026 (website repository at commit 8b7efdc).", "www.localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned a valid RFC 9116 file on 3 October 2026 (Contact, Expires 2027-10-01, Encryption, Preferred-Languages, Canonical, Policy). The key at /.well-known/pgp-key.asc is the one in the code repository (server/tools/mirror-key.asc) and signs the release sums, fingerprint DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0, and SHA256SUMS.asc on the v0.0.3 release verified against it on 3 October 2026.", "The changelog page went up on 2 October 2026 and on 3 October held ten dated entries from 24 September to 3 October, three of them software releases, so its September entries were written after the fact (website repository at commit 8b7efdc). 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, and the nginx config in the public web repository has access_log off with the error log at crit. Whether the live server runs that config wasn't checked. localghost.ai was registered on 17 December 2025 through Cloudflare, per the .ai RDAP record (checked 3 October 2026)." ], "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": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.332146348Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "LocalGhostDao/localghost", "version": "v0.0.3", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:06.50347713Z" } ], "githubStars": 16, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-01T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:05.182655127Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.094820704Z" }, "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": "2026-10-04T15:51:06.104501555Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:06.104501555Z", "fingerprint": "6c0fff855728" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:08.118702502Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:08.118702502Z", "fingerprint": "7062ca414be5" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:10.115688838Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "422dab2e108c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.332146348Z" }, "vendorLinked": true }, "summary": "Honcho has a score of 64.2 (B) against LocalGhost's 45.8 (E). Both do memory store. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 63 points. Honcho accepts x402. LocalGhost doesn't." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.min.md" }, "markdown": "Honcho has a score of 64.2 (B) against LocalGhost's 45.8 (E). Both do memory store. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 63 points. Honcho accepts x402. LocalGhost doesn't.\n\n- Honcho: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #188 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honcho.json\n- LocalGhost: grade E, 45.8/100, rank #396 of 452. 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\nPick Honcho for schema \u0026 documentation (+35), agent ergonomics (+63), payments \u0026 pricing (+20).\n\nPick LocalGhost for reliability (+9), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Honcho | LocalGhost | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 59 | LocalGhost +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 44 | Honcho +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 2 | Honcho +63 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 52 | LocalGhost +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 80 | 60 | Honcho +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 71 | Honcho +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 77 | LocalGhost +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **45.8 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Honcho | LocalGhost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Plastic Labs | LocalGhost |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | yes, from $0.001/call | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-24 | none |\n| Popularity | 7.4k stars, 18k npm/wk | 16 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Honcho.** Pay per call over x402 or MPP at agentcash.honcho.dev, with free read endpoints. No published rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA.\n\n**LocalGhost.** The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Honcho\n\n1. Get or create the workspace with POST /v3/workspaces before writing sessions and messages\n2. Batch up to 100 messages per request, each under 25,000 characters\n3. Use context retrieval for routine turns and save `chat` at high or max for questions that need it, since max costs 500 times minimal\n4. Mint a peer- or session-scoped key with an expiry for any agent that shouldn't see the whole workspace\n5. Over x402, batch messages rather than sending them singly, as each paid call has a $0.001 floor\n\n### LocalGhost\n\n1. Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage\n2. Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent\n3. Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which\n4. Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder\n5. Run `ghost-cli ghost.\u003cname\u003e commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON\n\n## Other comparisons with Honcho or LocalGhost\n\n- [Cognee vs Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-honcho.md)\n- [Cognee vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Graphiti vs Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-honcho.md)\n- [Graphiti vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Hindsight vs Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-honcho.md)\n- [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Honcho vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-mem0.md)\n- [Honcho vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-supermemory.md)\n- [Honcho vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-zep.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- [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- 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. 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