20 OpenClaw alternatives
OpenClaw: Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and answers from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and 25 other chat apps. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Self-Hosted, Open Source and Slack, ranked by how much they have in common with OpenClaw.
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Roo Code
Self-hostable cloud coding agent from the Roo Code team — investigates repos, verifies its own work and opens pull requests, driven from Slack, Teams, Discord or Telegram rather than an IDE.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted, Slack
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Zeta Labs
An AI coworker that lives in Slack and Teams, connects to 3,200+ tools and delivers finished work rather than text.
Also: Integrations, Personal Assistant, Slack
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Open-source platform for running a standing team of AI agents — you hire, schedule and review them, and they keep working while you are offline.
Also: Open Source, Personal Assistant, Self-Hosted
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HKUDS
Open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent you run yourself — browser UI, terminal or your chat apps, with memory, MCP tools and scheduled automations.
Also: Open Source, Personal Assistant, Self-Hosted
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Cloud-hosted long-horizon AI agents: pick a harness like Claude Code or Codex, pick a model, and reach the same agent from Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, the web or a CLI.
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Meta
Meta's free assistant built on Llama, available on the web and woven into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Also: Personal Assistant, WhatsApp
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Pilot Alpha Labs
AI executive assistant for founders that schedules meetings, writes the follow-ups and even places phone calls - over SMS, email and Slack, with no new app to install.
Also: Personal Assistant, Slack
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A Y Combinator-backed AI coworker you text from Slack or iMessage: it runs on its own cloud computer, signed into your tools, and keeps a self-updating company wiki as its memory.
Also: Personal Assistant, Slack
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AI co-worker that runs in Slack and iMessage, executing real tasks instead of just chatting.
Also: Personal Assistant, Slack
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Agent infrastructure for messaging: describe one AI agent and run it on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, SMS and email.
Also: Integrations, Slack
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A no-code builder for autonomous AI agents — visual flow editor, OpenClaw skills, Slack and Telegram delivery, and bring-your-own-key with no inference markup.
Also: Integrations, Slack
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An AI coworker that lives in your Slack — one teammate per channel, each with its own memory, tools, and approval rules.
Also: Integrations, Slack
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AI agent platform where a coordinator called Otto runs AI "Experts" and scheduled workflows, available in the cloud or self-hosted.
Also: Integrations, Self-Hosted
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Cloudflare
Open-source AI workspace you deploy into your own Cloudflare account: agent chat wired to company context, sandboxed app building, and policy guardrails.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Open-source voice AI platform you can self-host — a visual workflow builder, bring-your-own STT/LLM/TTS models, telephony, and no per-minute platform lock-in.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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All Hands AI
OpenHands — the leading open-source coding agent platform, self-hostable or run in the cloud.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Turn any website into clean markdown or structured JSON — crawling, JavaScript rendering, and extraction in one API.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Open-source newsletter platform that bills for emails sent, not dormant subscribers, with an MCP server so AI agents can run it.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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IBM (DataStax)
Open-source, MIT-licensed visual builder for AI agents, RAG apps and MCP servers, maintained by IBM's DataStax and extensible in Python.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted