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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Leon vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Leon's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on payments & pricing. Both do proactive personal assistants.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

LeonLouis Grenard (Leon AI) · Agent harness E41.3/100#1108 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

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

  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source
  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

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

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 32
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 33
  • Security & auth, 59 against 34
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 15
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 63

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLeonSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%203241Skydive +9
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23381Skydive +48
Agent ergonomics13%16.25759Skydive +2
Security & auth14%17.53459Skydive +25
Payments & pricing10%12.56035Leon +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.81556Skydive +41
Transparency & trust7%8.86375Skydive +12
Negative events≤150-5
TotalE 41.3/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactLeonSkydive
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorLouis Grenard (Leon AI)Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2023-05-012026-08-26
Terms last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity18k stars5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)none

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.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

Before you call either

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

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Leon or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Leon's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on payments & pricing.

Are Leon and Skydive open source?

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

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Disclosure

Skydive 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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