# LocalGhost vs Tokenrip

> Tokenrip scores 59.6 (C) to LocalGhost's 55.5 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Tokenrip scores 59.6 (C) 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 #748 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json
- Tokenrip: grade C, 59.6/100, rank #608 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tokenrip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tokenrip.json
- Best local AI models and assistants: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-ai/index.md
- All 210 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 1006 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 134 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 27
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 50
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 70
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 56

Also in its favour:
- Open source

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

### Tokenrip (C)

Good for: Small teams, or one person with several agents in different tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok), who want one place for shared files, tasks, decisions and handoffs with a person approving outside actions.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 83 against 49
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 39
- Security & auth, 69 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, 3.8 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for: 99 tool definitions with no toolsets or dynamic loading found


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | LocalGhost | Tokenrip | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 27 | LocalGhost +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 83 | Tokenrip +34 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 70 | Tokenrip +31 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 69 | Tokenrip +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 50 | LocalGhost +10 |
| 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 | 56 | LocalGhost +20 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **59.6 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | LocalGhost | Tokenrip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | MCP server |
| Vendor | LocalGhost | Quintel, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.tokenrip.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Auth | Token | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Tokenrip's terms of service (Quintel, LLC, Texas law). The `rip` CLI and library `@tokenrip/cli` is MIT-licensed on GitHub |
| Tools exposed | none | 99 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.silostack/tokenrip` |
| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-21 |
| 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 | 5 stars, 401 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (3) | 3.8/5 (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.

**Tokenrip.** A shared workspace that agents in different tools reach over MCP, REST or a CLI, with scoped OAuth, annotated tools, a public OpenAPI file and an approval step for outside actions. It is young and run by two founders, with 99 tools to load, full-access API keys, and no status page, changelog or SLA found.

## 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

### Tokenrip

1. Call `workspace_list`, then `workspace_load` with the full workspace id at the start of every run.
2. Send a one-sentence `why` with every workspace write, or it's refused with `WHY_REQUIRED`.
3. Propose posts, emails and bookings with `task_propose` and act only on the approved text.
4. Ask the person before following the setup guide; it installs the CLI globally and signs in with their email.
5. Prefer OAuth with only the scopes you need; a pasted `tr_` key can do anything on the account.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, LocalGhost or Tokenrip?

Tokenrip scores 59.6 (C) 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 Tokenrip without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for LocalGhost. Tokenrip has a hosted endpoint at https://api.tokenrip.com/mcp.

### Are LocalGhost and Tokenrip open source?

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


## For agents

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