What OpenClaw does

OpenClaw is an open-source TypeScript personal AI agent framework that runs locally on a user's own hardware and connects to LLM backends and messaging applications. The core architecture is a WebSocket Gateway that routes messages across 27+ native chat channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, etc.) to pluggable model providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Qwen, Moonshot Kimi, and local models via Ollama/LM Studio/vLLM). It pairs that gateway with persistent markdown-based memory, a proposal-first Skill Workshop for authoring reusable agent skills, and a 72-plugin / 54-official-plugin / ClawHub (54+ community skills) runtime, plus a first-of-kind ClawScan security pipeline that combines VirusTotal, static analysis, and NVIDIA SkillSpector (LLM-as-judge) to vet every published skill.

The platform is structured as a nonprofit, open-source project under the OpenClaw Foundation and is not directly monetized. It is distributed free via an npm one-liner installer, native macOS/Windows companion apps, and the ClawHub marketplace. Revenue is captured indirectly by an extensive ecosystem of channel partners: Hostinger (1-click managed service, tens of thousands of weekly installs), Gupshup (Superclaw on Superagent, 10B messages/month), Bluehost (GatorClaw on VPS), Rumble Cloud (Starter package with MoonPay pre-loaded), Tencent/ByteDance/Baidu/Alibaba/JD Cloud (competing 'claw' platforms in China), Microsoft (Scout/Autopilots/MXC), and Mastercard (Agent Pay via Lobster.cash). It serves individual developers, SMBs, and enterprise platforms that embed OpenClaw into vertical products spanning travel (Navan), audio (Spotify), automotive (MINIEYE), commerce (Mastercard), CRM (Salesforce), and smart home (Akuvox).

Name

OpenClaw

Legal name

OpenClaw Foundation

Website

https://openclaw.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Agent Framework

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Developer APIs & Node Access (RPC providers, node infrastructure APIs) (FSAPABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Account Abstraction & Smart Wallet Tooling (AA SDKs, paymasters, session keys) (FSAPABAK), Webhooks, Eventing & Message Streaming (BPAMAOAE)

Keywords

• Open-source AI agents
• Personal AI assistant
• Local AI runtime
• Multi-channel messaging
• AI agent framework

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Open-source / no direct monetization: OpenClaw is an independent open-source project; the core platform itself is not directly monetized. Creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI in February 2026 and transitioned the project to a nonprofit open-source foundation. Revenue is not directly captured by the project; costs are absorbed by the community, sponsors, or paid cloud/managed-service providers.
2. Ecosystem managed services & hosted offerings: Third parties build hosted/managed OpenClaw services: Hostinger 1-click managed OpenClaw (most popular AI app, tens of thousands of new installations per week), Gupshup Superclaw, Bluehost GatorClaw, Rumble Cloud OpenClaw Starter ($4 shared vCPU package with MoonPay pre-loaded), ByteDance Volcano Engine ArkClaw, Tencent QClaw, Baidu DuClaw, Alibaba Qwen integration, JD Cloud one-click, Akuvox AKClaw panel.
3. Agent payment infrastructure integrations: Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent (co-developed with Google) first deployed on the OpenClaw platform via Lobster.cash/Crossmint, enabling agentic commerce with existing card rails. First platform to host the integration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels10 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

OpenClaw is an open-source TypeScript personal AI agent framework that runs locally on the user's hardware. A central WebSocket Gateway routes conversations across 27+ messaging channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, Teams, etc.) to pluggable LLM backends (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, local models via Ollama/LM Studio/vLLM), with markdown-based persistent memory, dynamic tool loading, and a marketplace-driven skills/plugins runtime.

Product overview

OpenClaw is shipped as a single core platform (the OpenClaw personal AI assistant and its gateway) wrapped by a constellation of add-on modules rather than as one monolithic app. The core platform owns chat-channel ingestion, model routing, memory, and the skill/plugin runtime; ClawHub and Skill Workshop handle skill discovery and authoring; ClawSweeper, Crabfleet and Octopool are the automation and data layer built on top; Crabbox provides a sandboxed dev environment for those automations; ClickClack and the macOS/Windows Companion Apps are the user-facing chat clients; and Lobster is the typed workflow shell that ties tools, skills and cron/heartbeat jobs together. ClawScan / SkillSpector is the cross-cutting security module that protects ClawHub and the broader skill ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ClawHub: Official skill and plugin registry/marketplace for the OpenClaw ecosystem, used to discover and install community extensions and the source of the ClawScan security pipeline.

Products and services

• OpenClaw Core open-source personal AI agent platform and gateway that ingests chat messages, voice and tool calls, routes them to LLM providers, and retains persistent persona and context 24/7 on the user's own machine. Distributed via npm one-liner installer; runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
• ClawHub Community skill and plugin marketplace for the OpenClaw ecosystem. Every published skill is hashed and scanned by VirusTotal, ClawScan, and the NVIDIA NIM SkillSpector pipeline before being listed.
• Skill Workshop ClawHub companion tool for proposing, reviewing (Use it, Tweak it, Skip it), testing, and publishing reusable agent skills and skill bundles.
• ClawSweeper GitHub issue/PR triage automation that classifies and labels incoming issues using the OpenClaw gateway and routes them into Octopool for search and retrieval.
• Crabbox Sandboxed dev environment used by agents and humans to run code, tests, and skills without affecting the host machine.
• Octopool Local cache and search index for GitHub issues and pull requests that powers faster triage, search, and retrieval inside OpenClaw.
• Crabfleet Fleet-management surface for orchestrating many OpenClaw agents (for example ClawSweeper workers) across multiple machines.
• ClickClack Open-source chat client for OpenClaw that focuses on power-user workflows such as exec approval, skill invocation, and gateway control.
• Lobster Typed workflow shell for composing multi-step automations on top of OpenClaw tools, skills, and cron/heartbeat jobs. Also the brand for the Lobster.cash agentic commerce front-end via Crossmint.
• OpenClaw Companion Apps Native macOS (requires macOS 15+, Universal Binary) and Windows Hub (Windows 10 20H2+ / Windows 11) companion apps that expose the gateway, WebChat, and on-device skills to the desktop via a menu-bar app with status, voice toggle, and quick prompts.

Quantifiable outcome

• Stable cold agent turn 5.1x faster (9.8s → 1.9s) between v2026.4.14 and v2026.5.28
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration68 records

AI capability14 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

46 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• MicrosoftflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026Microsoft built Scout, its first 'Autopilot' AI agent, on top of OpenClaw and integrated it into Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint). Microsoft introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) and committed OpenClaw as a launch partner alongside OpenAI, NVIDIA, Manus, and Nous Research. Microsoft is a homepage sponsor and will contribute policy conformance improvements upstream to OpenClaw.
• NVIDIAflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026OpenClaw collaborates with NVIDIA on the verified agent skills initiative. Every ClawHub skill now ships with an NVIDIA Skill Card and is scanned by NVIDIA SkillSpector. NVIDIA and OpenClaw co-released the open-source 'OpenClaw/clawhub-security-signals' dataset on Hugging Face and a companion research paper. Microsoft and OpenClaw are launch partners for NVIDIA RTX Spark at COMPUTEX / GTC Taipei.
• DellcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026Dell Technologies is one of the OEMs launching RTX Spark Windows PCs (Pro Max and GB300 deskside systems) with Microsoft and OpenClaw as launch partners. Strong enterprise demand for local AI hardware to run OpenClaw.
• HPminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026HP is one of the OEMs launching RTX Spark Windows laptops and compact desktops this fall alongside Microsoft and OpenClaw.
• LenovominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026Lenovo is one of the OEMs launching RTX Spark Windows laptops and compact desktops this fall alongside Microsoft and OpenClaw.
• ASUSminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026ASUS is one of the OEMs launching RTX Spark Windows laptops and compact desktops this fall alongside Microsoft and OpenClaw.
• MSIminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026MSI is one of the OEMs launching RTX Spark Windows laptops and compact desktops this fall alongside Microsoft and OpenClaw.
• AdobecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere for the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform (Microsoft + OpenClaw as launch partners) to deliver up to 2x faster AI and creative performance.
• BaiducoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 28 April 2026Baidu Wenku and Baidu Drive jointly launched GenFlow 4.0 with a revamped Office Agent and deep OpenClaw integration; Baidu's DuClaw is one of the major China 'claw' platforms.
• MastercardflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 April 2026Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent (co-developed with Google) first launched on OpenClaw via Lobster.cash / Crossmint, enabling AI agents to make card transactions on behalf of Mastercard cardholders. Adoption underway at Santander, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS, and UOB.
• GoogleflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 April 2026Google co-developed the Verifiable Intent framework with Mastercard, which cryptographically verifies user authorization of agent-initiated transactions. Google Gemini is also integrated as a primary model provider for OpenClaw agents.
• Crossmint (Lobster.cash)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 April 2026Crossmint's Lobster.cash integrated Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent for OpenClaw, with Crossmint's SDK and Basis Theory routing payment credentials through the agentic stack.
• ByteDance (Volcano Engine)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 March 2026ByteDance's cloud unit Volcano Engine launched ArkClaw in March 2026, a cloud-based version of OpenClaw, and co-launched a China mirror of ClawHub in April 2026.
• OpenAIflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 February 2026OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI in February 2026; OpenAI is a homepage sponsor and ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscriptions can power OpenClaw agents via OAuth. OpenAI Codex is integrated as a model backend and OpenClaw runs OpenAI agent turns through the native Codex app-server harness by default. OpenAI, OpenClaw, NVIDIA, Manus, and Nous Research are launch partners for Microsoft MXC.
• VirusTotal (Google)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 7 February 2026ClawHub skills are scanned by VirusTotal's threat intelligence platform as part of the ClawScan pipeline. Every published skill is evaluated by VirusTotal alongside static analysis and NVIDIA SkillSpector.
• GitHubflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerGitHub is a homepage sponsor. 'OpenClaw: After Hours' community event is hosted at GitHub HQ in San Francisco on June 3, 2026, during Microsoft Build 2026, with a fireside chat by Peter Steinberger, a maintainer panel, and lightning talks. GitHub is also a launch partner for Microsoft MXC.
• VercelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVercel is a homepage sponsor of OpenClaw. The Vercel AI Gateway is integrated as a provider route alongside Cloudflare AI Gateway, OpenRouter, LiteLLM, and others.
• BlacksmithcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBlacksmith is a homepage sponsor of OpenClaw.
• ConvexcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConvex is a homepage sponsor of OpenClaw.
• TencentcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTencent launched QClaw, a cloud-based version of OpenClaw, via its PC Manager team; the international beta was developed in 5 days with 99% of code generated by the agent itself. The Chinese version reached 1M+ users in its first 10 days; international beta offers 20,000 free slots.
• AlibabacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAlibaba Cloud is one of five major Chinese cloud providers that launched competing 'claw' platforms with Qwen integration.
• JD CloudcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJD Cloud is one of the major Chinese cloud providers offering one-click deployment of OpenClaw-based agents.
• Hermes Agent (Nous Research)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpenClaw ecosystem build partner and co-launch partner for Microsoft MXC. Hermes Agent is described as a complementary AI agent framework in the broader agent ecosystem.
• Manus (Butterfly Effect)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerManus is a launch partner for Microsoft MXC alongside OpenClaw, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.
• Anthropic (Claude)coreTechnology or IntegrationAnthropic Claude is integrated as a primary model provider in OpenClaw via the bundled Anthropic provider, with API-key and subscription-backed routes. (Note: Anthropic blocked third-party OpenClaw usage on Claude subscriptions on April 4, 2026 before reinstating with 'Agent SDK credits' on May 13, 2026.)
• DeepSeekcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeepSeek V4 (Flash and Pro) is the default model for OpenClaw as of version 2026.4.24, with V4 Pro (the world's largest open-source model) added to the model library.
• SpotifycoreTechnology or IntegrationSpotify launched a beta CLI tool that integrates with OpenClaw, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code, allowing users to save AI-generated personal podcasts directly to their Spotify library. Spotify player is also a ClawHub skill.
• HostingercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHostinger launched OpenClaw as a 1-click managed service in November 2025, becoming Hostinger's most popular AI app with tens of thousands of new installations per week; targeted at SMBs for email, customer support, and lead-handling automation.
• GupshupcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGupshup launched Superclaw — a self-hosted version of its Superagent platform built on OpenClaw — for SMEs and privacy-conscious organizations. Beta users report 90% reduction in time/effort/cost and 25%+ higher conversions.
• BluehostcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBluehost launched GatorClaw, a visual no-code platform that enables businesses to build, deploy, and run autonomous AI agents on Bluehost's high-performance VPS infrastructure, built on the OpenClaw ecosystem.
• RumblecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRumble Inc. launched the OpenClaw Starter package on Rumble Cloud, providing a pre-configured hosted environment with MoonPay Agent pre-loaded for AI agent wallet and transaction use cases.
• MoonPaycoreTechnology or IntegrationMoonPay Agent is pre-loaded in the Rumble Cloud OpenClaw Starter package, enabling AI agents to check wallet balances, monitor transactions, and transact with MoonPay's crypto payments infrastructure.
• AkuvoxcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAkuvox, a global smart intercom and smart home solutions provider, launched AKClaw — a 15.6-inch agentic indoor monitor optimized for native OpenClaw execution. The first indoor monitor of its kind.
• MINIEYEminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMINIEYE upgraded its BamBam AI cabin butler powered by OpenClaw, demonstrating AI agent integration in automotive cockpit experiences.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe provides the underlying payment infrastructure (Link wallets for AI agents, streaming micropayments for token-based AI services, Radar fraud protection, Stripe Treasury) leveraged by agentic commerce platforms built on OpenClaw. Stripe is positioned to enable machine-to-machine payments.
• SalesforcecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSalesforce launched AgentForce Operations, a platform that allows customers to integrate their own external agents (including those built on OpenClaw) via API alongside Salesforce's built-in agents; claims 50-70% cycle time reduction and 80% less manual data entry.
• Red Hat (Sally O'Malley)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRed Hat principal software engineer Sally O'Malley (also an OpenClaw maintainer) released Tank OS, an open-source tool that uses Red Hat's Podman container technology on Fedora Linux to isolate OpenClaw instances for enterprise fleet deployment.
• Hugging FacecoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenClaw published the open-source 'OpenClaw/clawhub-security-signals' dataset (67,453 rows) on Hugging Face for the broader security research community. Hugging Face is also integrated as a model provider route in OpenClaw.
• Microsoft Research (MAI)coreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft unveiled seven new MAI reasoning models (led by MAI-Thinking-1) at Build 2026; OpenClaw integrates with the broader Microsoft AI platform.
• Access Protocol / InsightXminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccess Protocol partnered with InsightX to use OpenClaw as a cross-protocol execution foundation for AI-native information markets, with backing from NVIDIA Inception and Dapp Bay's BNB Chain ecosystem.
• Orca (Orca Node Limited)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrca announced a multi-year roadmap using OpenClaw automation infrastructure for prediction market arbitrage, sentiment-driven trading, and multi-agent portfolio execution; targets $260M AUM and 25,000 active users by end of 2026.
• Mayo ClinicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMicrosoft (an OpenClaw partner) announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a frontier AI model specific to healthcare, leveraging Mayo Clinic's patient data, in conjunction with the OpenClaw-based Scout agent.
• AWS, Dell, Nvidia (Microsoft enterprise agent partnerships)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMicrosoft has formed partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, and Nvidia, with solution providers noting growing marketplace opportunities for OpenAI's frontier models integrated via OpenClaw.
• NeweggminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNewegg sells the S1 mini PC powered by OpenClaw, based on a recycled Intel Core i3-2100 CPU, listed at $99 (reduced from $199).
• Qualcomm (Project Solara)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMicrosoft announced Project Solara with Qualcomm for agent-first devices at Build 2026, alongside the Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark chips.
• MediaTekminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMediaTek is the design partner for the CPU in NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip (combined with Blackwell RTX GPU).

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Letta (MemGPT): Letta (formerly MemGPT) is an open-source framework focused on memory-augmented AI agents with persistent state. It targets the same persistent-memory, long-running agent use cases that differentiate OpenClaw's markdown-based memory architecture.
• LangChain: LangChain is an open-source framework for building LLM-powered applications and agents, with a Python/TypeScript SDK and a similar ecosystem of integrations. It is the most direct competitor to OpenClaw in the open-source AI agent framework category, competing for developer mindshare and enterprise design wins.
• CrewAI: CrewAI is an open-source multi-agent orchestration framework that lets developers compose role-based agent crews. It overlaps with OpenClaw's plugin/skill runtime and multi-agent orchestration capabilities, and competes for the same agent-builder developer audience.
• Lindy AI: Lindy is a SaaS platform for building personal AI assistants that integrate with email, calendar, and chat apps. It targets the same personal-assistant productivity use case as OpenClaw but offers a hosted SaaS model rather than an open-source local-first runtime.
• AutoGPT: AutoGPT is one of the earliest open-source autonomous AI agent projects, demonstrating goal-directed agent loops. It competes with OpenClaw in the open-source personal/developer agent category and shares a community-led, open-source GTM motion.
• AutoGen (Microsoft): AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source framework for building multi-agent systems with conversable, role-playing agents. It is a direct competitor in the agent-framework category and an alternative path for developers building on Microsoft-stack tooling rather than OpenClaw.
• Manus (Butterfly Effect): Manus is a general autonomous AI agent platform co-launched with OpenClaw as an MXC partner at Microsoft Build 2026. It targets the same always-on, multi-step agent use cases that OpenClaw's personal assistant serves, competing head-on in consumer and SMB segments.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce AgentForce: Salesforce's AgentForce is an enterprise agent platform that integrates external agents (including those built on OpenClaw) via API alongside Salesforce's built-in agents. It competes for enterprise agent budget with OpenClaw-based deployments but bundles a full CRM/data stack.
• Microsoft Copilot Studio: Microsoft Copilot Studio is Microsoft's enterprise agent-builder platform integrated with Microsoft 365, Teams, and the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) infrastructure. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise agent design wins that Microsoft also routes partially through OpenClaw via Scout.

Emerging players

• n8n: n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform with growing AI agent capabilities (LLM nodes, tool integrations). It overlaps with OpenClaw's Lobster workflow shell and cron/heartbeat automation story at the SMB/integrator audience level, though n8n is more workflow-first and less agent-first.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/openclaw/openclaw
• Xx.com/openclaw
• Facebookfacebook.com/Clawdbot

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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