OpenClaw alternatives for businesses: 12 options compared

November 12, 2026· 47 min read

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The best OpenClaw alternatives for businesses are Vestra, Hermes Agent, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work, OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, Perplexity Teammates, Manus, Lindy, Zapier Agents and n8n. Most of them, like OpenClaw itself, give one person one agent that works alone; Vestra is the one office where agents on different engines, like Claude Code, Codex and Vestra's own, work together as one team, with nothing for you to host.

That difference is the whole point of this guide. OpenClaw is a brilliant personal assistant. It's free, it's open source and it runs on your own machine. But a business doesn't need one more clever assistant. It needs work to move between agents and people without someone pasting, chasing and checking all day. Below, we explain what OpenClaw is, why businesses outgrow it, how each alternative compares, what they cost, and how to switch without losing what you've built.

Quick answer

What OpenClaw is: a free, open-source AI assistant you install and run yourself. You message it from chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack, and it acts on your computer and accounts.
Why businesses look elsewhere: you host it, secure it and keep it running. Its own docs say one Gateway is one trust boundary, built for people who already trust each other.
The closest like-for-like swap: Hermes Agent, another free, open-source agent you host yourself.
Hosted personal agents: Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot, Meta Muse and Perplexity Teammates. Nothing to host, but each is built for one person, on one company's AI.
Automation builders: Lindy, Zapier Agents and n8n. Good for set workflows, less so for whole jobs.
For a business that wants a team: Vestra. A chief you name hires and runs teammates on the engine you pick for each, Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex, under one set of rules, from $19 a month.

Key takeaways

OpenClaw is free software, not free work. You pay for the model, the machine it runs on and the hours to set it up, secure it and keep it running.
OpenClaw can run a small team of agents, but only inside one trust boundary that you configure. Its docs say to run one Gateway per tenant for people who don't trust each other.
Almost every alternative swaps one personal agent for another. Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots and Hermes are built for one person and work alone.
The real business alternative isn't a better solo agent. It's an office where agents on different engines work together as teammates, with one memory, one set of rules and one record.
Check five things before you choose: who runs the work, what it costs in total, what always asks you first, where the memory lives and whether you can keep the engines you already use.
Vestra's chief and its team of agents are live today for one person. Chiefs for every person on a team, working together, are being built now. We say which is which throughout.

Contents

What are the best OpenClaw alternatives for businesses?
What is OpenClaw?
Why do businesses look for an OpenClaw alternative?
Is OpenClaw safe to use for business?
Can OpenClaw work for a team?
What's the difference between a personal agent and an AI office?
How did we compare the alternatives?
How do the 12 OpenClaw alternatives compare, one by one?
Which OpenClaw alternatives are open source and self-hosted?
Which OpenClaw alternatives are hosted, with nothing to run?
How much do OpenClaw alternatives cost?
Can I keep using Claude Code and Codex if I leave OpenClaw?
What should a business check before choosing an OpenClaw alternative?
How do you move from OpenClaw to another tool?
When is OpenClaw still the right choice?
What does a week look like after you switch?
What's live in Vestra today, and what's being built?
Glossary
FAQ

A note before we start: Vestra is our product. We've described every other tool from its maker's own pages, checked on 11 November 2026, and outside reporting is named where we use it. We compare documented features, not hands-on tests. We've also been plain about what Vestra can do today and what is still being built.

What are the best OpenClaw alternatives for businesses?

The best OpenClaw alternatives for businesses fall into four groups. Hermes Agent is the closest self-hosted swap. Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, Dots, Grok Bot, Muse and Perplexity Teammates are hosted personal agents. Lindy, Zapier Agents and n8n automate set workflows. Vestra is the AI office where agents on different engines work as one team.

Here is the short version. Each one gets a full section later in this guide.

Vestra: a hosted AI office. A chief you name hires and runs teammates, each on the engine you pick, Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex. From $19 a month. Best for a business that wants a team, not one more assistant.
Hermes Agent: a free, open-source agent from Nous Research that you run on your own machine. Best for developers who like OpenClaw but want a different take on memory and skills.
Claude Code: Anthropic's coding agent, included in every paid Claude plan from $20 a month. Best for developers who live in a codebase.
OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work: OpenAI's coding agent and its work agent, included in ChatGPT plans from free to Enterprise. Best for teams already paying for ChatGPT.
OpenAI Dots: an agent inside ChatGPT that takes on ongoing work, starting with one primary dot. Comes with ChatGPT Pro or a Business Premium seat.
Grok Bot: xAI's agents, which you create and brief one by one. Included with X Premium from $30 a month.
Meta Muse: Meta's personal agent, reachable in its own app and in WhatsApp. Free with limits, with paid plans for more.
Perplexity Teammates: workplace agents built on Perplexity Computer. Needs Perplexity Max.
Manus: a hosted general agent with a Team plan from $20 a seat a month.
Lindy: a no-code builder for AI assistants triggered by events, from $29.99 per user a month.
Zapier Agents: AI agents that act across thousands of apps in Zapier, with a free Agents plan.
n8n: an open-source workflow tool with AI agent steps, self-hosted or in n8n's cloud.

If you only read one line, read this one. Eleven of these twelve give you a better or easier solo agent, or a way to wire one into a workflow. Only one is built so that agents from different makers work together as teammates, the way people in an office do.

At a glance

Self-hosted, free software: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, n8n Community Edition.
Hosted, one person's agent: Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, Perplexity Teammates, Manus.
Hosted, workflow automation: Lindy, Zapier Agents, n8n Cloud.
Hosted, a team of agents on different engines: Vestra.

What is OpenClaw?

OpenClaw is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs on your own machine. You talk to it from chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Signal and iMessage, and it acts for you: it reads and writes files, runs commands, drives a browser and works in your accounts. It's MIT licensed, with no subscription and no paid version.

OpenClaw's home page puts it simply: there is "no subscription", "no hosted tier" and "no enterprise edition". You bring the model. That can be an API key from a model provider, a subscription you already have, or a model running locally on your own hardware.

The project is stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation, a US non-profit. The home page lists donors and sponsors including OpenAI, Amazon, NVIDIA, GitHub and Vercel, and notes that while its creator, Peter Steinberger, works at OpenAI, OpenClaw "is not an OpenAI product".

What OpenClaw can do

Live in your chat apps. The home page counts 29 chat channels, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal and iMessage, in direct messages and group chats.
Act on your machine. It can browse the web, fill in forms, read and write files and run shell commands, with full or sandboxed access.
Remember. Memory is kept as plain Markdown files in each agent's workspace, with an optional memory-wiki plugin.
Learn new skills. Skills are folders with a SKILL.md file. You can install them from ClawHub, its public registry, or write your own.
Run on different engines. It works with any model provider, including local models, and can run turns through other agent runtimes, including Codex and Claude Code.
Run on a schedule. Automations can start on a schedule, a webhook or a Gmail event.

Why it caught on

OpenClaw gave people something they'd wanted for a long time: an assistant that lives where they already chat, does real things on their own computer and costs nothing to try. Its home page quotes a Y Combinator post calling it the most-starred software repo on GitHub in under five months, with more than 346,000 stars. For a developer or a power user, it's a remarkable tool.

The question for a business is different. It isn't "is this clever?" It's "who runs it, who secures it, who pays for it, and does it make our work fit together?"

A short definition

OpenClaw: a free, open-source, self-hosted AI assistant. You run its Gateway on your own machine or server and reach your agent from chat apps. You choose the model, and you're responsible for keeping it running and secure.

Why do businesses look for an OpenClaw alternative?

Businesses look for an OpenClaw alternative because it's built for one person or one trusted circle, and someone has to host, secure and maintain it. The software is free, but the model bill, the server, the setup and the security work aren't. And it still leaves people briefing agents, carrying work between them and checking every result.

Here are the reasons we see most often, in plain words.

1. Someone has to run it

OpenClaw runs on a machine you look after. For a team, its docs ask for a host that stays on, like "a small VPS, an office Mac" or another supported install target. The production setup adds Cloudflare Tunnel and Access, individual sign-in and roles. That's normal work for an engineer. It's a lot to ask of a dental clinic, an agency or a five-person startup.

2. Free software isn't free work

You pay your model provider for every token, or use a subscription you already have. You pay for the always-on machine. And you pay in time: installing, updating, configuring plugins, checking skills and fixing what breaks. None of that shows up on a price page, because there isn't one.

3. Security is your job

When an agent can read your email, run commands and use your logins, security matters a lot. Outside reporting has covered exposed OpenClaw servers, a serious vulnerability that has since been patched, and malicious skills on its public registry. The OpenClaw team has responded, but on a self-hosted tool, the last line of defence is whoever set it up. We cover this in the next section.

4. One trust boundary

OpenClaw's multiplayer docs are clear about who a shared setup is for. "A gateway is one trust domain," they say, and that's "the right model for a team whose members already trust each other." If you need to serve people or organisations that don't fully trust each other, the docs say to run one Gateway per tenant. A business with private money, private hiring and outside clients needs finer lines than that.

5. No spending caps inside the tool

OpenClaw's usage views show provider spend and estimated cost per session, and an audit ledger records who ran which agent or tool. In the docs we read, we found no per-task or daily spending cap set inside OpenClaw. Limits sit with your model provider.

6. People are still the glue

This is the reason that matters most, and it isn't really about OpenClaw. It's about personal agents in general. Even with a great agent, someone still briefs it, carries its output to the next agent or person, and chases the result. Multiply that by every person on a team and every agent they use, and the glue work becomes a job of its own.

Is OpenClaw safe to use for business?

OpenClaw can be run safely, but the safety depends on whoever sets it up. It acts with real access to files, accounts and commands. Outside reports have covered exposed servers, a patched token-theft flaw and malicious skills on ClawHub. For a business without security staff, that's a real risk to weigh.

We want to be fair here. Every agent that can act on your behalf carries risk, and OpenClaw has added protections. Its permission modes range from Read only and Ask me, where a person reviews commands outside an allowlist, to Auto-review, where a model decides, and Full access. Approval buttons can appear in Slack, Telegram, Discord and Teams.

But the reporting is worth knowing before you choose.

Exposed servers. TechTarget, citing Bitsight, reported 679 publicly exposed OpenClaw instances on 27 January 2026, rising to 31,674 by 8 February.
A token-theft flaw. The same report describes CVE-2026-25253, rated 8.8, which let crafted links steal authentication tokens. OpenClaw has released a patch.
Malicious skills. In February 2026, Koi Security found 341 malicious skills on ClawHub, about 12% of the registry at the time, according to TechTarget. OpenClaw has since added VirusTotal-based scanning.
Agents that don't stop. TechTarget also recounts a case where an OpenClaw agent deleted hundreds of emails despite being told to wait for confirmation.

Zapier's guide to OpenClaw alternatives sums up the business worry in one line: without central audit trails, default permission controls and compliance features, it calls OpenClaw "a governance problem wearing a product costume". That's a competitor's view, and a sharp one, but it's the question your IT person or accountant will ask too.

What a safer setup looks like, on any tool

Whatever you choose, look for these five things:

Lines that never bend. Spending over a limit, deleting something and contacting someone new should always wait for a person.
Caps. A limit on any single task and on the whole day, so a runaway job can't run up a bill.
Sealed logins. Agents use your accounts without ever seeing the password or key, and you can take access back in one tap.
Checked skills. Skills and plugins from a source you trust, not an open registry anyone can publish to.
A record. One plain-language record of who asked for what, what was spent and who said yes.

In Vestra, the first, second and fifth are live today: money over your limit, deleting and first contact always come to you, you cap spending per task and per day, and every piece of work has a receipt. Logins connect once and stay sealed, so agents use them without seeing the password.

Can OpenClaw work for a team?

Yes, within limits. OpenClaw's multiplayer setup is one Gateway a whole team shares, with a bot in your team chat, shared sessions and roles. A team preset adds a chief-of-staff coordinator with a researcher, writer and reviewer. But it's all configuration you run, inside one trust boundary.

OpenClaw has moved closer to teams than most personal agents. Here is what its docs describe:

A team preset. One command, "openclaw agents team create", adds a "chief of staff" coordinator plus a researcher, writer and reviewer, wired together in config. You can add more agents from role templates.
Multiplayer. "One Gateway that a whole team shares." Teammates can open, steer and take over sessions in the Control UI, assign them like issues and see who is viewing or typing.
Roles. Operator roles limit what each person can do.
Per-agent workspaces. Each agent keeps its own workspace and session history, and messages reach the right agent through bindings you set per channel.

That's a real step. It shows the OpenClaw community sees the same problem we do: one agent working alone isn't enough.

Where it still falls short for a business

You build it. Roles, bindings, hosts, sign-in and tunnels are yours to set up and keep working.
One trust boundary. Session ownership and roles, in the docs' own words, are "collaboration guardrails inside the boundary, not isolation between adversaries". Clients, contractors and private projects need separate Gateways.
Memory is per agent. Each agent keeps its own workspace, so sharing what one agent learned with another is something you configure.
Limits sit elsewhere. Spending limits are set with your model provider, not per task or per day inside the tool.
Calls and email go through your accounts. Calls use a plugin with your own Twilio, Telnyx or Plivo account. Email works through your Gmail or IMAP. The docs don't describe a phone number or address that OpenClaw gives the agent.

For a team of engineers who trust each other and enjoy running their own tools, that's fine. For most small businesses, it's a second job.

What's the difference between a personal agent and an AI office?

A personal agent works for one person, in one app, usually on one company's AI, and it works alone. An AI office is a shared place where many agents, on different engines, work together as teammates for a business, with one memory, one set of rules, one record and a chief that runs them.

This is the heart of the choice, so here it is as starkly as we can put it.

The personal agent world. Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hermes and OpenClaw are each built for one person. Each knows only what its own person told it. Each keeps its own memory. Each has its own rules, its own bill and its own app. When Maya's research agent finds something Leo's coding agent needs, Maya copies it across. When Ana's writing agent drafts a post, Ana checks it, then pastes it into the next tool. People become the glue.

The office world. In Vestra, every agent is a teammate with a desk. A chief you name hands out the work. A teammate building on Claude Code and a teammate reviewing on Codex read from the same memory, follow the same rules and land on the same receipts. Context travels with the work. Work counts as done only when it's been checked. You hear from one agent, your chief, instead of a dozen.

Vestra's handbook describes the problem in four words: brief, carry, chase, click. Without an office, people brief every agent with the same context, carry work from one agent to another, chase every result to see if it's done and right, and click through forms and settings for every request. With an office, you brief once, chiefs hand work off, work is checked before it reaches you, and you just talk.

Side by side

Who runs the work. Personal agent: you do. AI office: your chief does, and answers to you.
How many engines. Personal agent: usually one maker's. AI office: the engine you pick for each teammate.
Memory. Personal agent: one per agent, or one per person. AI office: one wiki with a source for every line.
Rules. Personal agent: set per tool. AI office: one set of rules on every engine.
Cost. Personal agent: a plan per tool, per person. AI office: one plan for the whole team.
Where you see the work. Personal agent: a chat or a list of sessions. AI office: an office with a desk for every agent.

That last row is the one people remember. Vestra's office is a map you can walk around, a bit like a game, where every person and agent has a desk and a one-line status of what they're doing right now. The office you can walk around is being built now; today, you see your team's work in the app, on each teammate's profile and on its receipts.

If you'd like the long version of this idea, read our guide What is an AI office?.

How did we compare the alternatives?

We compared each alternative on what a business needs, using only its maker's own pages, checked on 11 November 2026. We looked at who runs the work, whether agents work together, which models it runs on, what it costs, what asks you first, where memory lives and how much you have to host.

Here are the eight questions we asked of every tool:

Who runs the work? Do you brief every agent yourself, or does something run them for you?
Do agents work together? Can one agent hand work to another, with context, without a person carrying it?
Which engines? Is it tied to one company's models, or can you choose per agent?
What does it cost in total? Subscription, per-seat charges, model bills and hosting.
What always asks you first? Spending, deleting and first contact.
Where does memory live, and can you check it? Can you see where a fact came from and fix it?
What do you host? Nothing, a little, or everything?
Who is it built for? One person, a trusted circle, or a business?

We didn't test speed, reliability or output quality, and we don't claim any advantage there. Products in this space change every few weeks, so check the makers' pages before you buy.

How do the 12 OpenClaw alternatives compare, one by one?

The 12 alternatives differ most in who runs the work and what you host. Hermes Agent and n8n are self-hosted like OpenClaw. Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, Dots, Grok Bot, Muse, Perplexity Teammates and Manus are hosted agents for one person. Lindy and Zapier automate workflows. Vestra runs a team of agents on different engines.

For each one, we cover what it is, who it's for, what it costs, how it compares with OpenClaw and where it falls short for a business.

1. Vestra: an AI office where agents on different engines work as one team

What it is. Vestra is a hosted office for your people and your AI agents. You name your chief, an agent that runs your other agents and answers only to you. You hire teammates by describing a job in a sentence, and each teammate runs on the engine you pick: Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex.

How it works. Tell your chief something like "I need someone to get us paid on time." It asks what a good manager would ask, then writes a teammate card: the job in one line, goals you can check, the apps it will use, its first routines and what it must ask you about first. You read it, change anything and say yes. From then on, your chief hands out work, makes sure every result is checked before it reaches you, and brings you only real decisions.

What's live today. A chief and a team of teammates, with routines and a morning brief. A cloud computer where you can watch your team work in a real browser and take over any time. Calls and email from your chief's own number and address, with phone calls from Pro up. Connected business tools, with more than 2,000 apps. A memory wiki with a source for every line. An engine per teammate: Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex. Limits, approvals and receipts. Your chief in the app on the web and on Mac, in Slack, Telegram and email.

What's being built. A chief for every person on a team, chiefs that work together, the office you can walk around, meetings with agents keeping the notes, spaces, access control and WhatsApp and iMessage. After that: a phone and inbox for every agent, a vault with a card for each agent, shared apps, one shared brain for the whole team and a front door for clients.

Price. Lite is $19 a month for up to 3 teammates and 2,000 credits. Pro is $97 for up to 20 teammates, 10,000 credits and phone calls. Max is $197 for 50 teammates and 20,000 credits. Ultra is $497 for 150 teammates and 50,000 credits. Yearly billing brings them to $17, $87, $177 and $447 a month. One credit is one cent, the same on every engine, and covers model time, the computer, searches and calls. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits.

Compared with OpenClaw. OpenClaw is free and runs on your hardware with any model. Vestra is a paid, hosted office with nothing to install. In OpenClaw, a team is configuration inside one trust boundary. In Vestra, a team is the product: a chief, teammates on different engines, one memory, one set of rules and one record. You don't run a server, and your model time is inside the same credits.

Where it falls short. Vestra isn't free, and it doesn't run local models. Several of the team features, like chiefs for every person and the office you walk around, are being built now rather than live. If you want full control of your own machine, OpenClaw or Hermes suits you better.

Best for: founders, small businesses and startups that want whole jobs done by a team of agents, with firm limits, without hosting anything.

See the full side-by-side in Vestra vs OpenClaw.

2. Hermes Agent: the closest self-hosted swap

What it is. Hermes Agent is a free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research. Its site calls it "The Agent That Grows With You". It's MIT licensed, like OpenClaw, and you install it on your own machine through the terminal or a desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux.

What it does. You chat with it in Hermes Desktop, the terminal or messaging apps. Its site lists Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email. It stores conversations, memories and skills across sessions, and says it "learns your projects, auto-generates skills, and never forgets how it solved a problem." It can run scheduled automations through its gateway, search the web, drive a browser and run isolated subagents, each with its own conversation and terminal. It offers five sandbox backends, from local to Docker, SSH, Singularity and Modal.

Price. The software is free. Nous Portal, which gives access to more than 200 models, runs from a free pay-as-you-go tier to Plus at $20 a month, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. You can also bring your own provider. Hosting in the cloud is optional.

Compared with OpenClaw. Hermes is the most like-for-like alternative. Both are open source, self-hosted and reached from chat apps. Hermes puts more weight on learning and self-made skills, and on sandboxing; OpenClaw has more chat channels and a bigger community.

Where it falls short for a business. It's still a personal agent you run. Its subagents work for one agent's task, not as a team of teammates with their own jobs. You still host, secure and update it, and the memory belongs to that one agent.

Best for: developers and researchers who want an open-source agent they control, with a different design from OpenClaw.

3. Claude Code: Anthropic's coding agent

What it is. Claude Code is Anthropic's agent for software work. It runs in your terminal, editor, desktop app or browser, and reads, writes and runs code in your projects.

What it does well. It's very strong in a codebase. Subagents take side tasks inside a session, and you can run several sessions in parallel. Anthropic's docs describe agent teams, where a lead session assigns work to other sessions, as experimental and off by default. Every worker is a Claude session, run by one person.

Price. Claude Code is included in every paid Claude plan. Pro is $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly. Max starts at $100 a month. Team seats are $25 a month, or $20 billed yearly, for 2 to 150 people, with Premium seats at $125, or $100 yearly. Enterprise is $20 a seat billed yearly plus usage at API rates, from 20 seats. Anthropic's pricing page lists Claude Code and Claude Cowork in the Team plan.

Compared with OpenClaw. OpenClaw can use Claude Code as a runtime underneath. Claude Code itself is hosted by Anthropic, so there's no Gateway to run, but it's focused on code and runs only on Claude models.

Where it falls short for a business. It's built for one developer at a time. It doesn't run your bookkeeping, your follow-ups or your customer care alongside your code, and it can't hand work to an agent from another maker.

Best for: developers. And if your developers love it, they can keep it: in Vestra, any teammate can run on Claude Code. See Vestra vs Claude Code.

4. OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work

What they are. Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's agent for work across your tools and files. OpenAI's page says ChatGPT Work "brings together your tools, files, and context to help you create, collaborate, and automate work," and that it's powered by GPT-6. It replaced the earlier ChatGPT agent.

What they do well. Codex builds, fixes and reviews code. ChatGPT Work drafts presentations, reports and analyses, connects to your tools and keeps recurring work moving. If your team already pays for ChatGPT, both are there.

Price. OpenAI's Codex pricing page says ChatGPT Work and Codex are included in Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise plans, with shared usage limits. Go is $8 a month, Plus $20, and Pro $100, $200 or $500 a month. Business is $20 per user a month billed yearly for 2 or more users, or $25 billed monthly. Enterprise and Edu are priced by sales. You can also use Codex with an API key at standard API rates.

Compared with OpenClaw. Like Claude Code, Codex can be a runtime underneath OpenClaw. On its own, it's hosted by OpenAI, with nothing to run, and it uses OpenAI's models.

Where they fall short for a business. They're built around one person's ChatGPT account, on one company's models. Each person's agent works alone, and nothing hands work between your Codex and a colleague's Claude Code.

Best for: teams standardised on ChatGPT. And like Claude Code, Codex can be a teammate's engine in Vestra: one teammate builds on Claude Code, another reviews on Codex, with fresh eyes.

5. OpenAI Dots

What it is. Dots are agents inside ChatGPT that take on ongoing work and bring results back for your review. You start with one primary dot. OpenAI says specialist dots, which take on dedicated responsibilities inside a company, are starting with focused enterprise pilots.

What it does well. A dot works in the background, can watch, suggest and follow up, and has its own computer you can open from its profile. Its work is listed under In progress, Scheduled and Completed.

Price. Dots come with ChatGPT Pro at $100, $200 or $500 a month, or a ChatGPT Business Premium seat at $125 a month, or $100 billed yearly. A Business workspace needs at least two seats.

Compared with OpenClaw. Dots are hosted, so there's nothing to run. But you can't choose a non-OpenAI model, and a dot works for one ChatGPT account.

Where it falls short for a business. One primary dot per person, on OpenAI's models. It can't run agents from other makers, like Claude Code, as one team. See Vestra vs OpenAI Dot.

Best for: heavy ChatGPT users who want one agent working in the background.

6. Grok Bot

What it is. Grok Bot is xAI's agent product. You create each Bot yourself with a name, a shape and a colour, then give it its job, sources and limits in your first message. Your primary Bot is your main point of contact and coordinates the others.

What it does well. Bots work on the jobs you give them and report back in their own chats, and your primary Bot can tell you how the others are doing.

Price. Grok Bot is included with an X subscription: Premium at $30 a month, or $300 a year; Super at $100 a month; Ultra at $200 a month. The Plus plan doesn't include it. Bot usage comes from a weekly pool shared with the Grok apps.

Compared with OpenClaw. Grok Bot is hosted, so there's no machine to run. But xAI chooses the model, with no model picker, and every Bot is briefed by you.

Where it falls short for a business. Bots are set up one by one by one person, on one company's AI. There's no settings page for a personal Bot, so its rules live in a chat message. See Vestra vs Grok Bot.

Best for: individuals already paying for X Premium who want a few agents for personal work.

7. Meta Muse

What it is. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent. Meta describes it as a "secure, private personal AI agent that proactively helps people meet their goals", running on a dedicated cloud machine and reachable in the Muse app or directly in WhatsApp.

What it does well. It's easy to reach, it works proactively, and Muse for Small Business adds skills and connectors for small business owners. It runs on Muse Spark, Meta's own model.

Price. Meta says Muse is "free for most of what people need, with subscription plans for people who want to do more." When we checked on 10 November, Meta's help centre listed Power at $20 a month and Maximum at $100 a month.

Compared with OpenClaw. Both live in WhatsApp. Muse is hosted by Meta, so there's nothing to run, but it runs only on Meta's model and Meta's announcement names a US rollout.

Where it falls short for a business. It's one personal agent, built around one person's life. It doesn't run a team or work with agents from other makers. See Vestra vs Meta Muse.

Best for: people in the regions where it's available who want a personal agent in WhatsApp.

8. Perplexity Teammates

What it is. Teammates are Perplexity's workplace agents for ongoing work, like sales, finance or operations. They build on Perplexity Computer and add support for long-running work.

What it does well. You can choose the model for each teammate, and teammates in the same project share context and can message each other. Each sits in your sidebar with a thread showing what it's doing.

Price. Teammates need Perplexity Max. Perplexity's page says teammate usage is free on Max for a promotional period, then draws on the credits included with Max. When we compared it on 9 November, Max was $200 a month.

Compared with OpenClaw. Hosted, with nothing to run, and with model choice per teammate. That's closer to a team than most.

Where it falls short for a business. It's tied to one person's Max subscription, and you create each teammate yourself. There's no chief that runs them for you, and no published limit on how many you can run. See Vestra vs Perplexity Teammates.

Best for: Perplexity Max subscribers who want research-heavy agents.

9. Manus

What it is. Manus is a hosted general-purpose agent. Its Team page describes it as "the best platform for your team and agents to collaborate together", and says Manus picks the best model for each step and uses sub-agents for parts of big tasks, like research projects and web apps.

What it does well. Long, multi-step tasks with deliverables you can review. The Team plan adds shared projects, skills and instructions, an admin dashboard, SSO and audit logs.

Price. Team starts at $20 per seat a month, or $200 per seat a year, based on 4,000 credits per seat a month, pooled across seats. SSO is free from 30 seats, or a flat $150 for smaller teams. Guests are free.

Compared with OpenClaw. Hosted, with team admin built in, so far less to run. But you don't choose the engine; Manus does.

Where it falls short for a business. Each person still prompts their own tasks. Sub-agents serve one task, rather than holding whole jobs as teammates with goals, and you can't run Claude Code or Codex as one of its agents.

Best for: teams that want a capable hosted agent for big one-off tasks.

10. Lindy

What it is. Lindy is a no-code platform for building AI assistants that run on triggers, like a new email or a form fill.

What it does well. Quick setup, lots of templates and model choice for each task. Good for set, repeatable workflows.

Price. Lindy's pricing page shows a free plan with $50 in credits for 7 days, Team at $29.99 per user a month with 3,000 credits each, pooled, and Enterprise with SSO, audit logs and a HIPAA BAA at custom pricing. Every active user in a workspace is billed.

Compared with OpenClaw. Hosted and no-code, so there's no server and no config files. But you build each assistant's flow yourself.

Where it falls short for a business. It automates flows rather than running a team. Assistants don't hold whole jobs together with one memory, and you can't run Claude Code or Codex as one of them. Pricing per active user also grows with your headcount.

Best for: operations teams automating set workflows, like inbound email triage.

11. Zapier Agents

What it is. Zapier Agents are AI agents you build in Zapier that connect to your business data and act across thousands of apps. Zapier calls them teammates and offers templates for lead enrichment, support email drafts and ticket replies.

What it does well. App coverage. If a tool has an integration, Zapier probably has it, and agents sit next to the automations you may already run.

Price. Zapier lists a separate Agents plan. Agents Free runs automated behaviours up to 400 times a month. Agents Pro is $400 billed yearly, about $33 a month, for up to 1,500 a month. Agents Enterprise is priced by sales. Zapier's main plans run from free to Professional from $19.99 a month and Team from $69 a month.

Compared with OpenClaw. Hosted, with managed connections, so there's much less to secure yourself. Zapier's own blog positions it as a governed alternative to OpenClaw.

Where it falls short for a business. Agents run behaviours you define, counted as activities. They're closer to smart automations than teammates holding whole jobs, and they don't run on Claude Code or Codex.

Best for: teams already living in Zapier who want AI steps inside their automations.

12. n8n

What it is. n8n is a workflow automation tool with AI agent steps. A standard self-hosted version is on GitHub, and n8n also runs a cloud.

What it does well. Control. Technical teams can keep data in their own environment and build complex flows. Every paid plan includes an AI Agent node, MCP support and human approval for tool calls.

Price. n8n's pricing page lists Starter at €20 a month and Pro at €50 a month, both billed yearly, Business at €667 a month, self-hosted only, and Enterprise by sales. Plans are counted by workflow executions.

Compared with OpenClaw. Like OpenClaw, you can host it yourself. Unlike OpenClaw, it's built around workflows you draw, not an assistant you chat to.

Where it falls short for a business. You design every flow. It's a powerful tool for engineers, not a team that takes on jobs for you.

Best for: technical teams that want self-hosted automation with AI steps.

Which OpenClaw alternatives are open source and self-hosted?

Hermes Agent and n8n's Community Edition are the main open-source, self-hosted alternatives. Hermes is MIT licensed and runs on your own machine, like OpenClaw. n8n's standard version is on GitHub and suits workflow automation. Both give you full control, and both leave hosting, updates and security to you.

If self-hosting is the reason you chose OpenClaw, these keep that promise:

Hermes Agent. Free and MIT licensed. Local by default, with optional cloud hosting through Nous Portal. Strong on sandboxing, with five backends.
n8n. A standard self-hosted version on GitHub, plus a Business plan that is self-hosted only. Built for workflows rather than chat.
OpenClaw itself, on a dedicated machine. If you stay, run it on a separate host with the narrowest access you can give it, review every skill before you install it, and keep untrusted work in sandboxes or remote workers, as its docs advise.

What self-hosting really costs

Self-hosting sounds free. It isn't, quite. Add up:

The machine. An always-on host: a small VPS, an office Mac or a server.
The model. API usage, or a subscription you reuse, billed by your provider.
The setup. Install, sign-in, tunnels, roles, channels and plugins.
The upkeep. Updates, broken plugins, rotated keys and new channels.
The security. Reviewing skills, watching for exposed ports and keeping access narrow.

For a developer who enjoys it, that's a hobby. For a business owner, it's a part-time job nobody was hired for.

When you need data to stay in your own cloud

Some businesses must keep data in their own environment. That's a fair reason to self-host. It isn't the only way, though. Vestra's handbook describes three places agents can run: Vestra's cloud, where most teams start with nothing to install; your company's own cloud; and machines on your own premises on Enterprise. In all three, the same rules, receipts and record apply. Enterprise starts from $4,000 a month, scoped in writing.

Which OpenClaw alternatives are hosted, with nothing to run?

Hosted alternatives include Vestra, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, Perplexity Teammates, Manus, Lindy and Zapier Agents. You sign up and start, with no server to keep on. The trade-off is that the maker runs the machine, and most tie you to their own models.

Among the hosted options, the big split is between personal agents and teams.

Hosted personal agents. Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Work, OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, Perplexity Teammates and Manus. Each is built for one person's account. Most run only on their maker's models. A few let you choose models, but none runs agents from other makers, like Claude Code and Codex, side by side as teammates.

Hosted automation. Lindy and Zapier Agents. You build flows or behaviours; they run when something happens.

A hosted team. Vestra. Your chief runs teammates on the engine you pick for each one. Claude Code and Codex aren't rivals here, they're engines your teammates can run on.

Why "nothing to run" matters

When nothing runs on your hardware, a few worries disappear. There's no port to leave open, no Gateway to update and no machine to keep on over a holiday. You still need firm rules about what agents may do, so check the safety questions earlier in this guide whichever tool you choose.

How much do OpenClaw alternatives cost?

OpenClaw alternatives range from free software you host to a few hundred dollars a month. Hermes and n8n's self-hosted version are free, plus model and hosting costs. Personal agents run from $8 to $500 a month per person. Lindy and Manus charge per seat. Vestra starts at $19 a month for a chief and up to 3 teammates.

Here are the starting prices, from each maker's own page:

OpenClaw: free software. You pay your model provider and run the machine.
Hermes Agent: free software. Nous Portal from free to $200 a month, or your own provider.
n8n: self-hosted version on GitHub; cloud from €20 a month billed yearly.
Claude Code: in Claude Pro from $20 a month; Team seats from $25 a month.
Codex and ChatGPT Work: in ChatGPT from free; Go $8, Plus $20, Pro from $100; Business from $20 per user.
OpenAI Dots: ChatGPT Pro from $100 a month, or a Business Premium seat at $125.
Grok Bot: X Premium from $30 a month.
Meta Muse: free with limits; paid plans for more.
Perplexity Teammates: Perplexity Max.
Manus Team: from $20 per seat a month.
Lindy Team: $29.99 per active user a month.
Zapier Agents: free up to 400 behaviours a month; Agents Pro about $33 a month billed yearly.
Vestra: Lite $19, Pro $97, Max $197, Ultra $497 a month.

Per person or per business?

This is the line that changes the maths. Most personal agents are priced per person. If five people each need ChatGPT Pro, Claude Max and an X subscription to get the agents they want, the bill multiplies by five, and the agents still don't work together.

Vestra prices the office, not the seat. One plan covers your chief, your teammates and the computer they work on, and the credits are the same on every engine. A teammate on Claude Code and a teammate on Codex both draw from the same credits, one cent each, on the same receipts.

What one credit buys in Vestra

The handbook gives a worked example. A renewal invoice, from reading the account to sending the email, cost 19 credits, or $0.19: 14 for model time, 2 for the invoice and email, and 3 for four minutes of computer time. A whole example day for a small team, from the morning brief to closing the books, came to 393 credits, or $3.93. Light work costs a few credits; a big piece of work costs tens. Unused credits roll over, and you can top up any time.

The hidden cost of free

With OpenClaw, nobody sends you a bill for setup, upkeep or the hour you spent finding out why a plugin stopped working. But those hours are real. When you compare prices, put a number on your time.

Can I keep using Claude Code and Codex if I leave OpenClaw?

Yes. Many people use OpenClaw with Claude Code or Codex underneath, and you don't have to give those up. You can use them directly from Anthropic and OpenAI. Or, in Vestra, you can run any teammate on Claude Code or Codex, and they work together as one team under the same rules.

This is the part people often miss. Leaving OpenClaw doesn't mean leaving the engines you trust.

How it works in Vestra

Every Vestra teammate has two parts. On top is everything that makes it yours: its job and goals, its skills, the apps it may use, its routines, what it remembers and the rules it works under. Underneath is the engine, the part that does the thinking and the working.

You pick the engine teammate by teammate. The handbook's example: one teammate builds an app on Claude Code, and another reviews its work on Codex, so a different engine reads the code with fresh eyes. The chief runs on Vestra's own engine.

Your chief helps you pick. When it hires, it suggests an engine and says why, in plain words. You can take the suggestion, pick another or let it choose job by job.
Switch any time. The job, goals, skills, apps, routines and memory belong to the teammate, not the engine. Change the engine and the next piece of work simply starts on the new one.
The same rules on every engine. No engine can raise its own limit, approve its own payment or give itself access to an app.
The same price on every engine. One credit is one cent whichever engine does the work.

Today, the live engines are Vestra's own, Claude Code and Codex. Others appear in the engine picker as the handbook describes, and we'll say when they're live.

For more on running these two side by side, see our guide to the best AI agents for business, and Vestra vs Claude Code.

What should a business check before choosing an OpenClaw alternative?

Before choosing an OpenClaw alternative, check who runs the work, the total cost, what always asks you first, where memory lives and whether you can keep the engines you use. Also check what you have to host, how it handles outside messages and whether you can export your data if you leave.

Use this as a checklist when you try any tool, including ours.

Who runs the work? Will you brief every agent, or will something run them and bring you only decisions?
Can agents hand work to each other? With the context attached, without you copying it?
Can you choose the engine per agent? And switch without starting again?
What's the total monthly cost? Plans, seats, model bills, hosting and add-ons.
What always asks you first? At minimum: spending over a limit, deleting something and contacting someone new.
Are there caps? Per task and per day.
Can you check the memory? Can you see where a fact came from, fix it, and have the fix reach every agent?
Are logins sealed? Can agents use them without seeing passwords, and can you revoke access in one tap?
Is there a record? In plain words, of who asked, what was spent and who said yes.
What do you host? If the answer is "a server", who looks after it?
How are outside messages treated? A note from another company's agent should inform, never command.
Can you leave with your data? Look for a plain export.

How Vestra answers those questions today

Runs the work: your chief, live today for one person's team.
Hand-offs between people's agents: being built now, as chiefs work together.
Engine per teammate: live, with Vestra's own, Claude Code and Codex.
Cost: from $19 a month, with model time in the same credits.
What asks first: money over your limit, deleting and first contact, live.
Caps: per task and per day, up to $100 a day, live.
Memory: a wiki with a source for every line, live; exportable as Markdown files that open in Obsidian.
Record: receipts for every piece of work, live.
Hosting: nothing to host.
Outside agents: the handbook's rule is that a note from someone else's agent can inform but never approve a payment, change a permission or create a rule. The front door for other companies comes later.

How do you move from OpenClaw to another tool?

To move from OpenClaw, list each agent's job, instructions and skills, pick the tool, recreate one job at a time and run both side by side for a week. Reconnect the apps each job needs, set your limits first and turn OpenClaw off only when the new setup has done the job well.

Here is a simple plan that works for any destination.

Step 1: Write down what you have

For each agent, note:

Its job, in one line.
Its instructions, from files like SOUL.md and AGENTS.md.
The skills and plugins it relies on.
The channels people use to reach it.
Its schedules and triggers.
The accounts it can use.

Step 2: Pick the job that matters most

Don't move everything at once. Start with the job that eats the most of your week, like getting paid on time, answering customer questions or following up with leads.

Step 3: Recreate it

In Vestra, you describe that job to your chief in a sentence. It asks a few questions, writes a teammate card with the job, goals, apps, routines, engine and what it must ask you first, and you say yes. If your OpenClaw agent ran on Claude Code or Codex, pick the same engine.

Step 4: Set your lines before you start

Set the caps and approvals first. In Vestra, new teammates start by asking first; they get more freedom only when you move the setting.

Step 5: Run both for a week

Give both setups the same job and compare. Check results against how you already work.

Step 6: Bring your memory across

OpenClaw keeps memory as Markdown. Read through it, keep what still matters and tell your chief the key facts, rules and preferences. Vestra's memory also fills from the history in the tools you connect, like your email, CRM and books, so on day one it already knows your biggest customers.

Step 7: Turn off what you don't need

When the new setup is doing the job well, revoke the old agent's access to your accounts, shut down the Gateway and close any open ports.

When is OpenClaw still the right choice?

OpenClaw is still the right choice when you want free, open-source software on your own hardware, with any model including local ones, and you're happy to host and secure it yourself. It's a great fit for developers, tinkerers and small, trusting technical teams that want deep control through config, plugins and hooks.

We'd tell a friend to stay on OpenClaw if:

You need a model running on your own hardware, for privacy or cost.
You want to read and change the code.
You need a chat channel few others support.
You enjoy running your own tools, and you have the skills to secure them.
You're one person, or a small team that trusts each other fully.

And we'd suggest a hosted team instead if:

You'd rather not run a server.
You need firm spending caps and approvals inside the tool.
Several people need agents, and their work needs to fit together.
You work with clients and private information that need separate lines.
You want one plan for the whole team rather than one per person.

What does a week look like after you switch?

After switching to an AI office, most of the week is a morning brief, a few one-tap decisions and finished work with receipts. Instead of messaging one agent at a time, you talk to your chief. It hands work to the right teammate, checks it before it reaches you and only asks you when it matters.

Here's an example week for a small business owner, using what's live in Vestra today.

Monday, 8:00. Your chief's morning brief lands in Slack. Three things got done over the weekend: invoices sent, 19 customer questions answered and a note on two rivals who raised prices, each checked against their own sites. One thing needs you: a discount above your usual limit. You reply "1" to approve the suggested option.

Monday, 9:30. You tell your chief, "I need someone to follow up with every lead who went quiet." It asks what matters, writes a teammate card and suggests an engine. You say yes.

Tuesday. Your research teammate's Monday routine has already produced a market note. Your developer's teammate builds a fix on Claude Code, and a second teammate reviews it on Codex. The fix counts as done only after the review passes.

Wednesday. Your chief wants to email a clinic you've never contacted, from its own address. That's first contact, so it waits for your yes, with the facts and a suggestion. You approve from your phone.

Thursday. A big research task would cost more than usual. Your chief tells you the cost first, and you choose to start with the 100 closest results.

Friday. You ask your chief what the week cost. It answers from the receipts, line by line, by teammate and job.

Compare that with a week on OpenClaw. You'd message your agent directly, check its sessions, update a plugin, look at your model provider's bill and, if a colleague's agent needed something from yours, carry it across yourself.

What's live in Vestra today, and what's being built?

Live in Vestra today for one person: a chief and a team of teammates, a cloud computer you can watch and take over, calls and email from your chief, 2,000+ connected apps, a memory wiki, an engine per teammate, and limits, approvals and receipts. Chiefs for every person, working together in an office, are being built now.

Here's the full picture, from Vestra's handbook.

Live today, for one person and their team of agents

A chief and a team of teammates: hire, shape and run them, with routines and a morning brief.
A cloud computer: watch your team work in a real browser, and take over any time.
Calls and email from your chief: its own number and address, with phone calls from Pro up.
Connected business tools: email, calendar, CRM, books and chat, connected in a click.
A memory that learns: a wiki of what your team knows, with a source for every line.
Any engine, per teammate: Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex, picked by you or your chief.
Limits, approvals and receipts: daily and per-task caps, your yes on money, every credit itemised.
Your chief in the app, Slack, Telegram and email, on the web and the desktop app for Mac.

Building now: the network

A chief for every person, named by them.
Chiefs that work together: ask, answer, hold or say no, and hand work across.
The office you can walk around: every desk, every space and what's happening, live.
Meetings in the office, with agents keeping the notes.
Spaces: one goal, shared context and decisions for the right person.
Access control: private, company or network, for every teammate, space and app.
Every hand-off checked and written down.
WhatsApp and iMessage.

Then, one at a time

A phone and an inbox for every agent, not only the chief.
The vault: a card and logins for every agent, sealed, with limits each person sets.
Shared apps: software built in a sentence, used by people and agents together.
The shared brain: one brain for the whole team, learning from every correction.
The front door: clients and partners working with you, chief to chief.

Some live features are still rolling out to every account.

If you want to see what a chief does day to day, read What is an AI chief of staff, and what does it actually do?

Glossary

OpenClaw: a free, open-source AI assistant you install and run on your own machine, reached from chat apps.

Gateway: the part of OpenClaw that runs on your host, connects your chat channels and runs your agents.

Trust boundary: the line around everyone who shares one system's access. In OpenClaw, one Gateway is one trust boundary.

Multiplayer (OpenClaw): one Gateway shared by a whole team, with shared sessions and roles.

ClawHub: OpenClaw's public registry of skills.

Skill: a written way of doing a kind of work that an agent can pick up. In OpenClaw, a folder with a SKILL.md file; in Vestra, a ready-made or custom playbook added to a teammate.

Personal agent: an AI agent built for one person, usually in one app and on one company's AI. Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots and Hermes are examples.

AI office: a shared place where many agents, on different engines, work together as teammates for a business, with one memory, one set of rules and one record.

Chief: in Vestra, the agent that runs your other agents, speaks for you and answers only to you. You name it.

Teammate: in Vestra, an agent hired for a whole job with goals, on the engine you pick.

Engine: what a teammate runs on, like Vestra's own, Claude Code or Codex.

Runtime: OpenClaw's word for the agent engine that runs a turn, like its own, Codex or Claude Code.

Routine: work that repeats on a schedule or when something happens.

Receipt: a record of what a piece of work cost, who did it and who said yes.

Credit: Vestra's unit of usage. One credit is one cent, the same on every engine.

Self-hosted: software you run on your own machine or server, rather than the maker's.

Prompt injection: hidden instructions in an email, web page or document that try to make an agent do something its owner didn't ask for.

Sealed login: a login an agent can use without ever seeing the password or key.

FAQ

What is the best OpenClaw alternative for a business?

For a business that wants a team of agents rather than one assistant, Vestra. Your chief hires and runs teammates on Vestra's own engine, Claude Code or Codex, with caps, approvals and receipts, from $19 a month and nothing to host. For a like-for-like self-hosted swap, Hermes Agent is closest.

Is OpenClaw free?

The software is free and MIT licensed, with no subscription and no paid version. You still pay your model provider, or reuse a subscription you have, and you run the machine it lives on.

Is there a hosted version of OpenClaw?

OpenClaw's home page says there's no hosted tier. Some third parties offer to host it for you. If you want an agent with nothing to run, look at the hosted alternatives in this guide.

Is OpenClaw safe for business use?

It can be, if it's set up carefully. It acts with real access, and outside reports have covered exposed servers, a patched token-theft flaw and malicious skills on ClawHub. Without security staff, a hosted tool with firm caps and approvals is lower risk.

Can OpenClaw run multiple agents?

Yes. It routes messages to different agents, each with its own workspace, and a team preset adds a chief-of-staff coordinator with a researcher, writer and reviewer. You set it up in config and run it on your own host.

Can a whole team share OpenClaw?

Yes, through one shared Gateway, which its docs call one trust domain, meant for people who already trust each other. For people or organisations that don't, the docs suggest one Gateway per tenant.

What's the difference between OpenClaw and Hermes Agent?

Both are free, open-source agents you host yourself. Hermes, from Nous Research, leans on learning and self-made skills, with five sandbox backends and optional hosting through Nous Portal. OpenClaw has more chat channels and a larger community.

Is Claude Code an OpenClaw alternative?

For coding, yes. Claude Code is Anthropic's hosted coding agent, included in paid Claude plans from $20 a month. It's built for one developer at a time, though, and doesn't run non-coding work or agents from other makers. In Vestra, Claude Code can be a teammate's engine.

Can I use Claude Code and Codex together without OpenClaw?

Yes. In Vestra, one teammate can build on Claude Code while another reviews on Codex, under the same rules, memory and receipts, and your chief hands work between them.

Which OpenClaw alternative works in WhatsApp?

Meta Muse and Hermes Agent both list WhatsApp. In Vestra, WhatsApp is being built now; today you reach your chief in the app, Slack, Telegram, email or by phone.

Can an OpenClaw alternative make phone calls?

Some can. In Vestra, your chief has its own phone number and email address today, with phone calls from the Pro plan up. OpenClaw places calls through a plugin and your own Twilio, Telnyx or Plivo account.

How do I stop AI agents from overspending?

Choose a tool with caps inside it. In Vestra, you cap any single task and the whole day, up to $100 a day, anything unusually big asks first with the cost, and spending over a limit always waits for your yes.

Can I take my data with me if I leave?

You should be able to. OpenClaw keeps memory as Markdown on your machine. Vestra lets you export your memory wiki as Markdown files, with links and sources kept, that open in Obsidian.

Do I need to be technical to replace OpenClaw?

Not with a hosted tool. In Vestra, you hire teammates by describing the job in a sentence, connect tools in a click and set rules in plain words, like "always ask me before emailing a new client".

How long does it take to switch from OpenClaw?

Start with one job. In Vestra, work can start the same day: name your chief, hire a first teammate, connect a few tools and set your limits. Run it next to OpenClaw for a week before you turn anything off.

What does Vestra cost compared with OpenClaw?

OpenClaw is free software plus your model bill and hosting. Vestra is $19 a month for a chief and up to 3 teammates, $97 for 20 with phone calls, $197 for 50 and $497 for 150, with model time, the computer, searches and calls in the same credits. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits.