A small, container-isolated alternative to OpenClaw built on the Claude Agent SDK.
Security-minded users who want an assistant they can fully read and audit
Free and open source (MIT). You pay for your Anthropic or other model usage.
Each agent runs in its own Docker container with its own memory and only the mounts you allow.
Outbound requests pass through a gateway that adds credentials and enforces per-agent limits.
Add WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Teams, Discord, email and more with one skill command each.
Recurring jobs run on a schedule and only wake the agent when there is work to do.
Send a sales pipeline overview or industry news summary to a chat every morning.
Give each team its own agent with a separate identity, container and memory.
Run an assistant on your own machine where messages, files and keys stay local.
Close alternatives worth a look before you decide.
The open source personal AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and answers in your chat apps.
An ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal AI agent in Python with a web UI, memory and chat apps.
NVIDIA's open source stack for running OpenClaw and other agents inside secure sandboxes.
The self-improving open source agent from Nous Research that learns skills from experience.
NanoClaw is an AI agent from NanoCo. It runs as self-hosted and is offered under a open source model.
NanoClaw is offered under a open source model. Model tokens are usually billed separately, so check the live model price on this page and the vendor site for current tiers.
The alternatives section on this page lists the closest options, with live data for each. Use the head-to-head pages to compare two of them in detail.