# OpenInstinct vs Wajo (Fo) (slim)

> Wajo scores 43.9 (E) to OpenInstinct's 21.8 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Wajo (Fo) scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against OpenInstinct's 21.8 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenInstinct leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- OpenInstinct: F 21.8, rank #988 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.min.md
- Wajo (Fo): E 43.9, rank #909 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.min.md
- OpenInstinct, good for Developers comfortable running their own iMessage assistant on Vercel with a browser agent and Link wallet. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 66 against 3; Transparency & trust, 59 against 47. Also Open source.
- Wajo (Fo), good 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 0; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 0; Security & auth, 38 against 0. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | OpenInstinct | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 0 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 66 | 3 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | OpenInstinct | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Merit Systems, Inc. | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT (Copyright 2026 Merit Systems, Inc.). | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | none |