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

Leon vs Wajo (Fo)

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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LeonLouis Grenard (Leon AI) · Agent harness E41/100#936 of 993 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#907 of 993

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 30
  • Maintenance & community, 15 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 47

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • 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

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 33
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 57

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLeonWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%203230Leon +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23374Wajo (Fo) +41
Agent ergonomics13%16.25768Wajo (Fo) +11
Security & auth14%17.53438Wajo (Fo) +4
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Leon +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8153Leon +12
Transparency & trust7%8.86047Leon +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 41/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactLeonWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorLouis Grenard (Leon AI)Wajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2023-05-01none
Terms last updatedno 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
Popularity18k starsnone

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.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

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

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Leon or Wajo (Fo)?

Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Leon leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Are Leon and Wajo (Fo) open source?

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

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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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