{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "grok-bot", "name": "Grok Bot", "vendor": "SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)", "vendorUrl": "https://x.ai/bot", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Hosted assistant from SpaceXAI and Cursor. Named Bots work on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, files and terminal, reached from desktop and mobile apps, Slack and X, with routines that run on a schedule.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json", "license": "Proprietary", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in with a Cursor account in the browser, or with Sign in with Grok for a Grok Business seat. SAML 2.0 single sign-on applies to teams, and SCIM is Enterprise only. Connectors are added from Connect apps and authenticated in the browser by OAuth, or configured with a key or token. OAuth tokens stay on Cursor's backend. For passwords, passkeys, two-factor codes, CAPTCHAs and payment confirmations the Bot hands the computer to the owner, and a secure secret request masks a value and keeps it out of the transcript and away from the model. Browser sessions then persist on the cloud computer shared by all of the user's Bots (https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/security; https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/approvals-security-and-privacy; https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots). No API key or public API for the assistant was found. An Admin API for team settings is linked from the docs and was not read.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No separate subscription. Grok Bot is included with every paid individual Cursor plan (Pro, Pro+, Ultra) and with Cursor Teams, or through a linked individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy or X Premium+ subscription, or a seat on a self-serve Grok Business plan. Cursor's pricing page shows Individual at $20 a month and Teams at $40 a user a month. The Pro+ and Ultra prices sit behind tabs our reader did not see. Each tier includes weekly usage with no amount published, metered by agent steps and tokens. After that, on-demand usage is billed through Cursor up to a monthly limit the owner sets, which is not a hard stop in the middle of a run. A free trial is a usage credit with a 7-day window and never becomes a paid plan. SuperGrok Lite is not included, and a SuperGrok link cannot be undone or moved (https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/plans; https://cursor.com/pricing; checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Grok Bot docs, the plans page or the Grok Bot Terms (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.x.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.messaging", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "desktop-app", "mobile-app", "computer-use", "scheduled-routines", "slack", "status-page", "iso27001", "soc2", "llms-txt", "paid" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.2, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 893, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 40, "schema": 40, "security": 68, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.", "bestFor": "A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.", "strengths": [ "Connector OAuth tokens stay on Cursor's backend. Bots call tools without receiving them, and tokens are never stored on the cloud computer", "Each user's work runs in a dedicated Firecracker microVM. A Bot has no identity of its own and holds no more access than the signed-in member", "Approvals from routines, triggers or other Bots expire after about 10 minutes and the action does not run", "Email and Slack messages can appear as editable drafts with Send and Discard buttons, and passwords, two-factor codes and payment confirmations are handed to the owner", "Markdown copies of every docs page and an llms.txt, with a security page that states what the controls do not cover" ], "weaknesses": [ "All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary", "The review model does not check memory writes or most settings changes, and the Grok Bot Terms call approval controls aids only", "Deleting a Bot leaves shared files and browser sessions on the computer. No way to view or delete single memories was found in the docs read", "Seven incidents marked major named Grok Bot on status.cursor.com between 3 September and 6 October 2026, the longest about six and a half hours", "Audit logs, Action Recording, network allowlists and enforced review rules are Enterprise only. Other teams default to allow-all network access", "Cursor chooses the model with no picker and no fixed set of model vendors, and no Grok Bot changelog was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules", "Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match", "Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials", "Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools", "To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 40, "schema": 40, "security": 68, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/grok-bot" }, "sameCompany": [ "cursor-cli" ], "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cursor Individual plan, as shown on the pricing page", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "Includes Grok Bot with weekly usage. On-demand usage extra" }, { "item": "Cursor Teams plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 40, "note": "Includes Grok Bot for every member. On-demand usage on by default" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Anysphere, Inc.", "domain": "cursor.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-12-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cursor.com/en-US/terms/grok-bot", "privacy": "https://cursor.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cursor.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Grok Bot Terms (last updated 3 September 2026) supplement the agreement that governs the customer's use of the Services and define the Provider as the entity under that agreement. For a Cursor account that agreement is Cursor's Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026), which name Anysphere, Inc., 2261 Market Street STE 86466, San Francisco, CA 94114 (https://cursor.com/terms-of-service).", "The product docs are on docs.x.ai, titled SpaceXSI Docs, and name SpaceXAI. The Grok Bot Terms say they create no contractual relationship between the customer and any affiliate of the Provider. No page read states how the two companies are related.", "The privacy policy (last updated 11 October 2026) is Anysphere's and says it does not apply where Anysphere processes data for commercial customers as a processor.", "cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a GitHub security page and security-reports@cursor.com as contacts and has no Expires field.", "The docs name api2.cursor.sh and *.cursorvm.com as the hosts the app and the cloud computer use. There is no endpoint an outside agent calls.", "RDAP for cursor.com gives a registration date of 1995-12-20.", "No changelog for Grok Bot was found. Cursor's changelog entries from 29 July to 6 October 2026 do not mention it.", "docs.x.ai's robots.txt allows every path with Content-Signal ai-input=yes. x.ai's robots.txt does the same, but x.ai/bot and status.x.ai answered HTTP 403." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.json", "live": { "slug": "grok-bot", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cursor.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:36.692375788Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:36.692375788Z" } }, "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "openclaw", "name": "OpenClaw", "vendor": "OpenClaw Foundation", "vendorUrl": "https://openclaw.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Open-source personal AI assistant that runs as a Gateway on the owner's own computer and answers in WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and other chat apps, with desktop and mobile apps. The OpenClaw Foundation maintains it under the MIT licence.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json", "repo": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "openclaw" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No OpenClaw account exists. The owner supplies model provider API keys or signs in with a ChatGPT or Claude subscription, and adds a bot token, QR pairing or OAuth grant for each channel and account. Clients reach the Gateway with a token or password (`gateway.auth.mode`), or through a trusted proxy, and paired devices hold their own tokens. Operator scopes (`operator.read`, `operator.write`, `operator.admin` and others) apply to paired clients, but a shared-secret bearer token on `POST /tools/invoke` gets full operator access whatever scopes the caller sends (https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/tools-invoke-http-api; https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/operator-scopes).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with no paid tier, hosted service or subscription. The owner pays the model provider for usage, or nothing with a local model, plus any search, speech or media API they configure (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw; https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/api-usage-costs).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 391800, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.openclaw.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "foundation", "llms-txt", "docker", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 270, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 84, "security": 74, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -8, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-11. The project's security page and GitHub advisory list show 722 advisories published between 31 January and 11 September 2026, 14 critical, 249 high, 390 medium and 69 low, 39 with a CVE. The largest groups are Gateway auth and scopes (182) and exec, sandbox and approvals (160). The project says all 14 critical issues are fixed and disclosed and reports no known compromise of its infrastructure. Fixed and published, which decays the deduction, but the volume and the two areas affected bear directly on an assistant that holds its owner's accounts, -8. https://openclaw.ai/security; https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical.", "bestFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.", "strengths": [ "State, memory and credentials stay under `~/.openclaw` on the owner's machine, and the project sells no hosted service or paid tier", "Memory is plain Markdown files in the workspace, and `openclaw memory forget` removes what a named session contributed", "Four session permission modes (`read-only`, `guarded`, `workspace`, `full`), exec approvals and an optional Docker or Podman tool sandbox", "Unknown direct-message senders get a pairing code by default and are ignored until the owner approves them", "Telemetry is documented field by field. Feature statistics are opt-in and `update.checkOnStart: false` stops every automatic request", "13 stable releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, with npm provenance attestations on the published package" ], "weaknesses": [ "Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off", "Agents with the message tool can send across conversations and channel providers by default, with no approval step for a send", "722 advisories published between 31 January and 11 September 2026, 14 critical and 249 high, per the project's own security page", "Credentials sit in files and SQLite databases under `~/.openclaw`, protected by file permissions unless the owner configures a secret provider", "The project's own maturity scorecard rates the product at 68 per cent, labelled Alpha", "The privacy policy covers the mobile apps, the Chrome extension and website analytics, and says it does not cover the Gateway" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval", "Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default", "Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation", "Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it", "Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 84, "security": 74, "transparency": 82 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash # or: npm install -g openclaw@latest --allow-scripts=openclaw \u0026\u0026 openclaw onboard --install-daemon" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openclaw" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "OpenClaw Foundation", "domain": "openclaw.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The README and the `LICENSE` file name the OpenClaw Foundation, described as an independent 501(c)(3). Its site at www.openclaw.org gave no address, registration number, board or filings on the page we read.", "No terms of service were found for the software, so the MIT licence stands in.", "The privacy policy at openclaw.ai/privacy, effective 2 August 2026, covers the iOS and Android apps, the Chrome extension and website analytics, and says it does not cover the gateway, server or AI provider the owner connects. It is not linked here for that reason.", "openclaw.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 12 October 2026. The repository has a SECURITY.md with private GitHub reporting and security@openclaw.ai.", "There is no hosted endpoint. A Gateway answers on its owner's own host. The daily update check goes to telemetry.openclaw.ai.", "The domain registration date was not looked up." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)", "b": "OpenClaw Foundation", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "392k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or OpenClaw?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Grok Bot. OpenClaw is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Grok Bot and OpenClaw open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.", "slug": "grok-bot", "watchFor": "All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 40", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 50", "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 68", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 20" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.", "slug": "openclaw", "watchFor": "Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off" } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "AstrBot vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "CowAgent vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "GAIA vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "GAIA vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Instinct vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "IronClaw vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw.json", "title": 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zo-computer" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 35, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 40, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "openclaw": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 44, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 40, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "openclaw": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 50, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "openclaw": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 68, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "openclaw": 74, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 25, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "openclaw": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 66, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 20, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "openclaw": 86, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "openclaw", "grok-bot": 66, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openclaw": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.", "verdicts": { "grok-bot": "Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.", "openclaw": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- Grok Bot: grade E, 45.2/100, rank #893 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json\n- OpenClaw: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #270 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Grok Bot (E)\n\nGood for: A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them\n\nWatch for: All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary\n\n### OpenClaw (B)\n\nGood for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 50\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 68\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | OpenClaw | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 75 | OpenClaw +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 84 | OpenClaw +44 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 77 | OpenClaw +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 74 | OpenClaw +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | OpenClaw +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 86 | OpenClaw +66 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 68 | OpenClaw +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -8 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.2 · E** | **67.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grok Bot | OpenClaw |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) | OpenClaw Foundation |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 392k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Grok Bot.** Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.\n\n**OpenClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Grok Bot\n\n1. State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules\n2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match\n3. Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials\n4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools\n5. To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough\n\n### OpenClaw\n\n1. Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval\n2. Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default\n3. Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation\n4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it\n5. Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or OpenClaw?\n\nOpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 45.2 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Grok Bot and OpenClaw open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Grok Bot. OpenClaw is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"grok-bot\", \"b\": \"openclaw\"}`. 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