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OpenBot compares.
Every product here gives you capable AI coworkers. The differences show up later: whose agents, whose models, whose servers, and whose rules.
Comparing OpenBot with Claude, OpenAI dots, OpenClaw.
| ClaudeAnthropic | OpenAI dotsOpenAI | OpenClawOpen source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model lock-in | Yes: Future-proof. Any closed or open model, through your subscriptions or API keys | No: Locked in. Claude only, from Anthropic or the big clouds | No: Locked in. OpenAI’s models only, picked by OpenAI | Yes: Future-proof. Any model, from any provider or locally |
| Any model | Yes: Any model, open or closed | No: Claude only: permanent lock-in across your org | No: OpenAI only, picked by OpenAI | Yes: Any model |
| The best intelligence at every price | Yes: The best model for every task, call, and budget | Limited: Claude, even when others do it better or cheaper | Limited: Only OpenAI’s mix of models | Yes: Any model or router |
| Host your models wherever you want | Yes: Any provider, or fully private | Limited: Big clouds at most, never your network | Limited: OpenAI’s cloud, never your network | Yes: Any provider, or locally |
| Agents | Yes: Developer-loved. The agents your engineers already write, in the frameworks & harnesses they use — through AG-UI | No: Developers locked out. Your agents can’t run in it, even on Anthropic’s SDK | No: Developers locked out. Only OpenAI’s agent; yours only as tools | Limited: Built around its own agent. Only coding tools plug in, on its own server |
| Built-in agents | Yes: Great bots, plus no-code bots anyone can share | Basic: One general assistant | Basic: A personal dot each | Basic: One assistant, plus templates |
| Your engineers’ custom agents | Yes: Built with the stacks they already use, hosted anywhere, rolled out with enterprise controls | No: Not even agents built on Anthropic’s own SDK | No: Only OpenAI’s agent; yours as tools | Limited: Only coding tools, on its own server |
| Modularity | Yes: Modular by design. Great defaults, or plug in your own skins, sandboxes, MCP hubs, and more | No: Closed product. Only tools and sign-in plug in | No: Closed product. Only tools, a computer, and sign-in plug in | Limited: Plugins around its own agent. Swap anything but its agent |
| Built on open standards | Yes: Open standards at every layer | Limited: Only for tools, sign-in, and audit | Limited: Only for tools and sign-in | Limited: None for running your agent; no SCIM |
| Swap any layer | Yes: Any layer, without touching the rest | Limited: Only tools and sign-in | Limited: Only tools, a computer, and sign-in | Basic: All but its agent |
| Ownership | Yes: Yours. Your infrastructure, your brand, and the MIT code | No: Anthropic’s. Anthropic’s service, closed code | No: OpenAI’s. OpenAI’s cloud, closed code | Yes: Yours. Your machines or servers, and the MIT code |
| Run it on your own infrastructure | Yes: Your cloud or servers, with your own database | Limited: Anthropic’s service; desktop and Office can use your cloud | No: OpenAI’s cloud | Yes: Your machine or servers |
| Customize everything | Yes: Brand, look, bots, and the MIT code | Limited: Skills and projects, not your brand | Limited: A name, look, and instructions | Basic: MIT code and plugins; brand the web app only |
| Train models on your own work | Yes: Fine-tune or train open models on your work | No: No fine-tuning or RL | No: No; OpenAI is closing fine-tuning | Yes: Runs your fine-tuned models |
| Experience | ||||
| Custom UIs | Yes: Custom UIs across bots, and per bot | Basic: Connector apps inside Claude | Limited: Plugin UIs only | Basic: Widgets and tool UIs |
| Native apps everywhere your people work | Yes: Desktop, mobile, Slack, Teams, and web | Basic: Desktop, mobile, web, and Slack; no Teams | Yes: Desktop, mobile, web, Slack, and Teams | Yes: Desktop, mobile, web, and chat apps |
| Governance and support | ||||
| Built for the enterprise | Yes: Governance designed in, from CopilotKit (SOC 2 Type II) | Yes: A mature Enterprise plan | Basic: Launched last month, on ChatGPT Enterprise | No: Alpha, by its own rating |
| One set of rules for every agent and model | Yes: SSO, approvals, and audit over every agent and model | Basic: Only over Claude | Basic: Only over OpenAI’s agents | Limited: One trusted team per server; no SCIM |
| Enterprise support and forward-deployed engineers | Yes: Full support, plus engineers who embed with your team | Limited: Engineers only for top accounts | Limited: Through a separate consulting arm | No: Community support only |