Open source alternatives to OpenClaw
3 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what OpenClaw does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What OpenClaw does
- Personal AI agent that runs taskscore
- Chat with it from messaging appscore
- Plugins and skills
- Works with many LLMs
- Runs on your own machine
- Scheduled and background tasks
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
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 zeroclawSmall, fast autonomous personal assistant runtime in Rust |
Replaces it94% | 33k+78 | 2 days ago | 66% | Uses the terminal | Apache-2.0 | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Plugins and skills.See the evidence
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 AstrBotAgent framework with chat platform integrations, plugins and LLM support |
Replaces it88% | 47k+493 | 14 days ago | 100% | Needs a server | AGPL-3.0 | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Not shown: Scheduled and background tasks.See the evidence
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 nullclawSmall autonomous AI assistant runtime written in Zig |
Not checked yet | 8.2k+1 | 6 months ago | 100% | Needs a server | MIT | |
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