Polabot compared
There are several good ways to keep AI agents working for you. These pages put Polabot next to each of them, using every vendor’s own pages, so you can pick the one that fits. Where a vendor does not say something, we write “not stated” rather than guess.
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- xAI
Polabot vs Grok Bot
xAI’s team of always-on agents on a shared cloud computer, included in the X Subscription from Premium up.
Read the comparison - Milind Soni and contributors
Polabot vs OpenMausBot
The open-source (Apache-2.0) app Polabot’s desktop app is built on: a chat app where every chat is an AI agent.
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Open-source personal agents
We picked the open-source agents people most often weigh against each other in 2026 and that, like Polabot, keep an agent running on your own machine: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, NanoClaw and goose.
- OpenClaw Foundation
Polabot vs OpenClaw
The MIT-licensed personal assistant you reach from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and many more chat apps.
Read the comparison - Nous Research
Polabot vs Hermes Agent
Nous Research’s MIT-licensed agent that writes its own skills, with a desktop app and an optional hosted cloud.
Read the comparison - NanoCo
Polabot vs NanoClaw
A small MIT-licensed agent that runs every session in its own Docker container, reached from chat apps.
Read the comparison - Agentic AI Foundation
Polabot vs goose
The Apache-2.0 agent with a desktop app, CLI and 70+ MCP extensions that can run on Claude Code or ChatGPT subscriptions.
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At a glance
| Product | Uses the AI subscriptions you have | Where the bots run | Phone | Source | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polabot | Yes: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok | Your Mac or PC; optional cloud PC | iPhone (TestFlight) | Built on Apache-2.0 OpenMausBot | Free; Pro $12 a month |
| Grok Bot | No: usage comes from the X Subscription | Cursor-hosted cloud computers in the US | iPhone, iPad and Android | Not stated | From $30 a month (X Premium) |
| OpenMausBot | Yes: claude, codex and grok CLIs, and more | Your computer or your own server | Android and iOS apps shared via Discord | Apache-2.0 | Free; MausBot Cloud from $15 a month |
| OpenClaw | Yes (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex) or API keys | Your machine or server | iOS and Android companion nodes | MIT | Free |
| Hermes Agent | ChatGPT/Codex yes; Claude only on Max with extra usage; API keys | Your machine or server; optional Nous cloud | No native app stated | MIT | Free; cloud from $20 a month |
| NanoClaw | Yes (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex) or API keys | Docker containers on your machine | No app (chat apps instead) | MIT | Free |
| goose | Yes: Claude Code, ChatGPT Plus/Pro (ACP) | Your computer | No app; experimental Telegram gateway | Apache-2.0 | Free |
Checked on 14 November 2026 on each vendor’s own website, documentation, repository and app store listing. Products change often; if something here is out of date, write to hello@polabot.app and we will fix it. “Not stated” means we could not find it on the vendor’s own pages.
Product names belong to their owners. Polabot is not affiliated with or endorsed by xAI, Cursor, the OpenClaw Foundation, Nous Research, NanoCo, the Agentic AI Foundation or the OpenMausBot project.