# Leon vs Town > Town scores 48.7 (D) to Leon's 41 (E) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.md (~3,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.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: 2026-10-13 Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do proactive personal assistants. - Leon: grade E, 41/100, rank #938 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json - Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### 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 49 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 30 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - 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 ### Town (D) Good for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Ahead on: - Security & auth, 79 against 34 - Maintenance & community, 60 against 15 Watch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Leon | Town | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 32 | 35 | Town +3 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 33 | 33 | even | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 49 | Leon +8 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 34 | 79 | Town +45 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Leon +30 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 60 | Town +45 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 63 | Town +3 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **41 · E** | **48.7 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Leon | Town | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Agent harness | Platform | | Vendor | Louis Grenard (Leon AI) | Town.com, Inc. | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | HTTP | | Auth | None | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Free | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | MIT | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | 2023-05-01 | 2026-10-10 | | Terms last updated | no document linked | | | Privacy policy last updated | no 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 | | | | Popularity | 18k stars | 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. **Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is 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 ### Town 1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only. 2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run. 3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying. 4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope. 5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise. ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Leon or Town? Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. ### Are Leon and Town open source? Leon is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Town. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "leon", "b": "town"}`. 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[Leon vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openinstinct.md) ## Disclosure - Town 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.