{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "leon", "name": "Leon", "vendor": "Louis Grenard (Leon AI)", "vendorUrl": "https://getleon.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Open-source personal assistant by Louis Grenard that the owner runs on their own machine or server. The 2.0 Developer Preview adds an agent loop with tools, layered memory, computer use and a proactive pulse, reached through a web app.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json", "repo": "https://github.com/leon-ai/leon", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@leon-ai/cli" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account. The web app and the Socket.IO and HTTP interfaces accept any client unless `client_interface.auth.enabled` is set, after which a `\u003cprofile\u003e:\u003ctoken\u003e` credential from `LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN` is required. Model provider keys go in the profile `.env`. Connected apps use OAuth or a pasted token.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy. The project takes sponsorship. Model usage is billed by the provider the owner picks, or costs nothing with a local llama.cpp model.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the context documents or the source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 17568, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/blob/develop/README.md", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.self-hosted", "assistant.memory", "assistant.accounts" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "typescript", "beta", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2023-05-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 934, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 33, "security": 34, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, with the whole server, web app, tools and skills in one public repository", "Connected-app credentials are stored per profile with AES-256-GCM, and the Gmail connection asks only for the `gmail.readonly` scope", "Runs with a local llama.cpp model or any of 11 hosted providers, so the owner chooses which company sees the content", "Tool allow and disable lists, a configurable iteration limit (256 by default) and per-profile tool-call logs", "At least 200 commits between 25 September and 12 October 2026, with a fresh-install check passing on develop three times a week" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "No approval step before a tool call. Shell commands pass a blocklist of patterns, and the proactive pulse is on by default and runs one task every 30 minutes", "The server listens on 0.0.0.0 and client authentication is off in the sample config", "Telemetry is on in the sample config and posts an instance ID, versions and hardware details to telemetry.getleon.ai. The README and the docs pages read do not describe it", "No `SECURITY.md`, security.txt, privacy policy or 2.0 documentation, and no messaging-app channel or MCP client on the develop branch" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "Set `telemetry_enabled: false` and `runtime.pulse_enabled: false` in the profile `config.yml` for an unattended or private run", "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", "Back up `LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` from the profile `.env`. Without it the stored connections cannot be read" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 33, "security": 34, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "install": "git clone https://github.com/leon-ai/leon.git \u0026\u0026 cd leon \u0026\u0026 npm install --global pnpm@latest \u0026\u0026 pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm start" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/leon" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "No legal entity found. Copyright Louis Grenard", "domain": "getleon.ai", "domainRegistered": "2018-02-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "`LICENSE.md` and the footer of getleon.ai read Copyright 2019 to present Louis Grenard. No company or foundation is named on the pages read.", "No terms of service or privacy policy was found on getleon.ai, docs.getleon.ai or in the repository, so no link is given and the MIT licence stands in.", "getleon.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the repository has no `SECURITY.md`. The GitHub API lists no published security advisory.", "RDAP for getleon.ai gives a registration date of 2018-02-16.", "The assistant answers on the owner's own host. The only vendor endpoint the source names is telemetry.getleon.ai, which receives telemetry.", "`CHANGELOG.md` ends at 1.0.0-beta.8 of 1 May 2023. Changes to the 2.0 Developer Preview are recorded only as commits." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.json" }, "answer": "Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "lindy", "name": "Lindy", "vendor": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.lindy.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Lindy is a hosted AI assistant from Crivello Corp. Each user has a private assistant for mail, calendar and meetings, reached by Slack, iMessage, SMS, email or the web app, and a team shares a second one in Slack channels.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "A person signs in with Google or Microsoft and connects mail and calendar from either, a phone number verified by code, and Slack through an app an owner or admin installs. Other tools connect by OAuth or an API key, and every action for a tool turns on at once with no scope choice in Lindy. A connection is personal until an owner or admin shares it with the workspace, after which everyone's Lindy works as that account. Saved API keys are write-only and can be rotated or revoked. No public API or key for outside callers was found in the docs.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "$29.99 per active user a month with 3,000 credits, pooled across the workspace, and larger monthly credit amounts up to 1,750,000 for $9,999.50. Top-ups are $10 per 1,000 credits and do not expire, while monthly credits do not roll over. New accounts get $50 of credit for seven days with no card. The pricing page gives 2 to 250 credits for an everyday request and 1,000 to 2,500 for a large build. The docs name Plus, Pro and Max plans priced only inside the app, which the pricing page does not list (checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$29.99 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the terms or the docs (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.lindy.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.lindy.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "paid", "free-trial", "no-card", "slack", "imessage", "sms", "email", "chrome-extension", "mcp-client", "approvals", "llms-txt", "soc2", "team" ], "lastRelease": "2025-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 32.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 968, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 43, "maintenance": 9, "payments": 35, "reliability": 24, "schema": 32, "security": 49, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-12. The pricing page and the docs pricing page answer the question of whether Lindy does anything without approval with No, and say anything with outside impact waits for approval. The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only, that web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not guarded, and that an integration can be set to always allow writes (https://www.lindy.ai/pricing, https://docs.lindy.ai/pricing.md, https://docs.lindy.ai/integrations/overview.md). 3 points for a misleading claim." ], "verdict": "Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.", "bestFor": "Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.", "strengths": [ "Memory is a set of plain files in the web app, split into Personal, Team and System scopes, which the owner can read, edit and restore by version.", "Each integration has a setting that makes Lindy ask in Slack before writing, or stops it writing with that tool at all.", "Saved API keys are write-only. The docs say a value cannot be read back in the app, through the API or by asking Lindy, and keys can be rotated or revoked.", "The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 names its processors by category, among them Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Pipedream, WorkOS, Twilio and Recall.ai.", "Credit prices are public. A seat is $29.99 a month with 3,000 credits, top-ups are $10 per 1,000, and new accounts get $50 of credit with no card." ], "weaknesses": [ "The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.", "The pricing page and the docs pricing page both answer that Lindy does nothing with outside impact without approval, which the integrations page contradicts.", "No status page, uptime record or SLA was found on the site or in the docs.", "The public changelog's newest entry is dated 21 October 2025, and it describes an agent builder the current docs no longer cover.", "Deleting a memory file keeps its earlier versions, and no way to purge them or a retention period was found. The privacy policy gives no period either.", "The terms of 24 September 2026 forbid automated use of the system and use for any commercial enterprise, in a product sold to companies. This matters before any probe is run." ], "agentNotes": [ "Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.", "Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.", "Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.", "Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.", "Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 32.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 43, "maintenance": 9, "payments": 35, "reliability": 24, "schema": 32, "security": 49, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lindy" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29.99, "note": "3,000 credits a month, pooled across the workspace. Every active user is billed" }, { "item": "Top-up credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.01, "note": "$10 per 1,000 credits. Top-up credits do not expire, monthly credits do not roll over" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "domain": "lindy.ai", "domainRegistered": "2019-05-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.lindy.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.lindy.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.lindy.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service, last updated 24 September 2026, name Crivello Corp, doing business as Lindy, registered in Oregon at 9450 SW Gemini Dr, Beaverton, OR 97008, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.", "The terms cover the site and all related products and services. No separate service agreement or DPA was linked from the pages read.", "The privacy policy was last updated 28 September 2026.", "The web app and sign-in are at chat.lindy.ai.", "www.lindy.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No disclosure policy or bug bounty was found.", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs or the security page.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2019-05-16 for lindy.ai, with NameCheap as registrar." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Louis Grenard (Leon AI)", "b": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2023-05-01", "b": "2025-10-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-24", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "18k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Leon or Lindy?" }, { "answer": "Leon is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Lindy.", "question": "Are Leon and Lindy open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 32 against 24", "Agent ergonomics, 57 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 15 against 9", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 52" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.", "slug": "leon", "watchFor": "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 34" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.", "slug": "lindy", "watchFor": "The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-leon.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-leon.json", "title": "GAIA vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.json", "title": "GAIA vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-leon.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon.json", "title": "Haven vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Haven vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.json", "title": "Instinct vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Instinct vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Leon vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Leon vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Leon vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Leon vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Leon vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke.json", "title": "Leon vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Leon vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Leon vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Leon vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Lindy vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Lindy vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.json", "title": "Lindy vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Lindy vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 8, "edge": "leon", "key": "reliability", "leon": 32, "lindy": 24, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "leon", "key": "schema", "leon": 33, "lindy": 32, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "leon", "key": "ergonomics", "leon": 57, "lindy": 43, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "lindy", "key": "security", "leon": 34, "lindy": 49, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "leon", "key": "payments", "leon": 60, "lindy": 35, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "leon", "key": "maintenance", "leon": 15, "lindy": 9, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "leon", "key": "transparency", "leon": 60, "lindy": 52, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do assistant proactive.", "verdicts": { "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.", "lindy": "Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.min.md" }, "markdown": "Leon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- 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\n- Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #968 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Leon (E)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 32 against 24\n- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 15 against 9\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch 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\n\n### Lindy (F)\n\nGood for: Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 34\n\nWatch for: The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Leon | Lindy | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 32 | 24 | Leon +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 33 | 32 | Leon +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 43 | Leon +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 34 | 49 | Lindy +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | Leon +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 9 | Leon +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 52 | Leon +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **41 · E** | **32.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Leon | Lindy |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |\n| Vendor | Louis Grenard (Leon AI) | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2023-05-01 | 2025-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-24 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 18k stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Lindy.** Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Leon\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. Set `telemetry_enabled: false` and `runtime.pulse_enabled: false` in the profile `config.yml` for an unattended or private run\n4. 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\n5. Back up `LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` from the profile `.env`. Without it the stored connections cannot be read\n\n### Lindy\n\n1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.\n2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.\n3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.\n4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.\n5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Leon or Lindy?\n\nLeon scores 41 (E) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Are Leon and Lindy open source?\n\nLeon is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Lindy.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"leon\", \"b\": \"lindy\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare leon lindy`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Leon or Lindy\n\n- [AstrBot vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-leon.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [GAIA vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-leon.md)\n- [GAIA vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-leon.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Haven vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon.md)\n- [Haven vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Instinct vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-leon.md)\n- [Instinct vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-leon.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Leon vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Leon vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Leon vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke.md)\n- [Leon vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Leon vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Lindy vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Lindy vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Lindy vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.md)\n- [Lindy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-12", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Leon vs Lindy", "url": "" } ], "description": "Leon scores 41 (E) to Lindy's 32.3 (F) for assistant proactive. 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