# Lobby vs nanobot > nanobot scores 62.4 (B) to Lobby's 11.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot.md (~3,550 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot.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 - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-21 nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts. - Lobby: grade F, 11.1/100, rank #1182 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lobby-os.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json - nanobot: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #490 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanobot.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 1006 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Lobby (F) Good for: A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where nanobot loses 6 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### nanobot (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model. Ahead on: - Reliability, 70 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 77 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 74 against 0 - Security & auth, 63 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 82 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 48 against 43 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Open source - Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5 Watch for: No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Lobby | nanobot | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 70 | nanobot +55 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 77 | nanobot +67 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 74 | nanobot +74 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 63 | nanobot +63 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | nanobot +40 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 82 | nanobot +80 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 48 | nanobot +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | | | **Total** | | **11.1 · F** | **62.4 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Lobby | nanobot | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Lobby OS, Inc. | HKUDS | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth | None | | Pricing | Paid | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. | MIT | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | none | 2026-09-15 | | 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 | none | 49k stars | | Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) | ## Verdicts **Lobby.** Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026. **nanobot.** nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes. ## Before you call either ### Lobby 1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner. 2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app. 3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say. ### nanobot 1. Set `tools.restrictToWorkspace` to true and `tools.exec.sandbox` to `bwrap` or `seatbelt` before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default 2. Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m) 3. Keep `allowFrom` narrow on every channel and never set `["*"]` on Email, which has no pairing 4. Write secrets as `${VAR}` references in `~/.nanobot/config.json`. Plain values are stored in clear text 5. Use `nanobot -m "..."` for a one-shot run, and keep `nanobot gateway` running for channels, schedules and heartbeat ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Lobby or nanobot? nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Lobby and nanobot open source? No open-source release is listed for Lobby. nanobot is open source (MIT). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-nanobot.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "lobby-os", "b": "nanobot"}`. 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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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp