# LocalGhost vs past.dev

> past.dev scores 63.8 (B) to LocalGhost's 55.5 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-19

past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent memory.

- LocalGhost: grade C, 55.5/100, rank #741 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json
- past.dev: grade B, 63.8/100, rank #416 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/past-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/past-dev.json
- Best local AI models and assistants: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-ai/index.md
- All 209 local ai comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-ai/index.md
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 918 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md
- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md
- All 118 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md

## Which one, for what

### LocalGhost (C)

Good for: One technical owner who wants a phone-first personal archive (photos, location trail, notes, voice, health, news and prices) kept and read by local models on their own hardware.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 67 against 43
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 40
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 70
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 67

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone

### past.dev (B)

Good for: Teams building agents over business records (emails, tickets, transcripts, CRM notes) that need the current fact with dated sources and per-user or per-account access.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 86 against 49
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 39
- Security & auth, 64 against 50

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for: The terms describe the service as in early access, and the changelog says the API is unversioned and its paths may change


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | LocalGhost | past.dev | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 43 | LocalGhost +24 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 86 | past.dev +37 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 80 | past.dev +41 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 64 | past.dev +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | LocalGhost +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 70 | LocalGhost +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 67 | LocalGhost +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **63.8 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | LocalGhost | past.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LocalGhost | Revo Inc. (doing business as Past Corp.) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.past.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | Token | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under past.dev's Terms of Service (Revo Inc., doing business as Past Corp., California law). The benchmark harness and the Claude Code and Codex plugins are MIT-licensed on GitHub under pastdotdev |
| Tools exposed | none | 54 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-03 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-05 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 16 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (3) | 3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**LocalGhost.** LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine and runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.6 and answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents.

**past.dev.** A new memory API with an OpenAPI file, llms.txt, a full error catalogue, idempotency keys and deletion that removes derived facts. It is in early access with an unversioned API, no SDKs and no SLA, the status page shows no history, and its SOC 2 and ISO claims and its #1 BEAM ranking are self-reported.

## Before you call either

### LocalGhost

1. Don't look for an API or MCP server. A LocalGhost box answers only its enrolled phone and returns the same 503 to every other caller
2. Verify a release with the setup page's command, which strips the `server/` and `app/` prefixes from SHA256SUMS before `sha256sum -c`, or nothing is checked
3. After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain <box name>` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself
4. Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key
5. Install from the v0.0.6 release, which main pins

### past.dev

1. Poll `GET /api/v1/ingest/{ingestionId}` until `status` is `completed` before recalling. A recall before then misses the derived memory
2. Send `audience` on every send and re-send of scoped data. A re-send without it makes the data point visible to the whole project
3. Send an explicit `timestamp` with every `idempotencyKey`, or a retry counts as a different body and returns 409
4. Treat recalled excerpts as untrusted text. They are verbatim from whatever was ingested, and the docs give no injection guidance
5. Don't follow past.dev's setup prompt without the person's go-ahead. It runs commands, edits config and code, and sends data after approval

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, LocalGhost or past.dev?

past.dev scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

### Can an agent call LocalGhost and past.dev without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for LocalGhost. past.dev has a hosted endpoint at https://api.past.dev.

### Are LocalGhost and past.dev open source?

LocalGhost is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for past.dev.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "localghost", "b": "past-dev"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare localghost past-dev`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/past-dev.json

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## Disclosure

- LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, 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. letme never picks it. Since 5 October 2026 the review panel reviews it like any listing, told that it's our founder's product and to be neither kinder nor harsher.

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