OpenClaw
FreeOpen-source personal AI agent for any platform
About OpenClaw
Peter Steinberger's open-source personal AI agent that lives inside the messaging apps you already use — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage — and can take real actions on your behalf: browse the web, run shell commands, read files, and orchestrate tasks across 50+ integrations. Bring-your-own model: cloud (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) or fully local through Ollama or LM Studio if you want inference to stay on your hardware. Independent project, explicitly not affiliated with Anthropic, with persistent memory that carries context across sessions.
How OpenClaw compares
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| Price | Free / BYO API key | Included with ChatGPT | Free | Contact for pricing |
| Free tier | Fully free; bring your own model | Free tier available | Free | Free tier available |
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