Persistent agent

OpenClaw

A self-hosted personal assistant whose local gateway connects any of 30-plus chat apps and companion apps to a model of your choice, with memory, heartbeat and cron automations, browser and device control, and skills and plugins from ClawHub.

Status
Available
Launched
24 Nov 2025
Open source
Yes
Pricing
free, self-hosted; no paid tier, hosted service or token (you pay for model API usage)

Capabilities

  • memory
  • heartbeat
  • scheduled tasks
  • triggers
  • browser
  • email
  • computer use
  • code execution
  • multi-agent
  • voice
  • sandboxing

Surfaces

  • cli
  • web
  • macos
  • ios
  • android
  • windows
  • linux
  • whatsapp
  • telegram
  • slack
  • discord
  • signal
  • imessage
  • google-chat
  • teams
  • matrix
  • mattermost
  • irc
  • line
  • sms
  • wechat
  • wecom
  • feishu
  • qq
  • nostr
  • twitch
  • zalo

Plugs into

  • mcp
  • skills
  • plugins
  • clawhub
  • hooks
  • webhooks

Runs on

  • anthropic
  • openai
  • openai-codex
  • google-gemini
  • xai
  • openrouter
  • z-ai-glm
  • minimax
  • nvidia
  • moonshot-kimi
  • ollama
  • vllm
  • lm-studio
  • llama.cpp
  • openai-compatible

Sources