{ "data": { "a": { "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": 1010, "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", "live": { "slug": "openclaw", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "openclaw/openclaw", "version": "v2026.10.3", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:14:47.128007796Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "openclaw", "version": "2026.10.3", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:14:46.525244245Z" } ], "githubStars": 391902, "npmWeekly": 3964886, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://openclaw.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:31.89692676Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:12:14.969566742Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T23:14:47.128007796Z" } }, "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "town", "name": "Town", "vendor": "Town.com, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.town.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Town is a hosted AI assistant, called a Townie, with its own email address. It works across the owner's email, calendar and connected work apps, runs scheduled routines, and answers by email, text, WhatsApp, Telegram, the web or iOS.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json", "license": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "People sign up at town.com with account credentials or a linked Google or single sign-on account (https://www.town.com/terms-of-service). A routine can expose its own webhook URL, called with a bearer secret that is shown once and can be rotated. Town answers a wrong secret, a disabled endpoint and a missing one with the same 404 (https://www.town.com/docs/routines/stock-routines/webhooks).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at $0 with no credit card, 30 chat messages a month, the weekly briefing and a 7-day Pro trial on signup. Starter is $15 a month billed monthly with 1,250 credits. Pro ($49), Power ($99) and Power Plus ($199) are monthly prices at the billed-annually rate, and monthly billing is \"available at a slightly higher rate\". Team is $59 and Team Plus $149 a seat a month. Credits past the allotment bill at $0.044 (Pro), $0.038 (Power, Team), $0.032 (Power Plus) and $0.030 (Team Plus), with an optional monthly spend cap (https://www.town.com/pricing and https://www.town.com/docs/billing/plans, checked 14 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on town.com's pricing, docs and terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.town.com/docs", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "email.inbound", "voice.calls", "memory.user", "tasks.create", "notify.push", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "ios", "soc2", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "disclosure": "Town competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 834, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.", "bestFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "disclosure": "Town competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.", "strengths": [ "Per-routine webhook secrets, shown once and rotatable, with an X-Town-Idempotency-Key header and six documented responses.", "Routines run in autonomous, approval-required or read-only mode, with per-tool overrides and account scope defaulting to the trigger account.", "Webhook payloads are framed as untrusted data, and Town can block a webhook routine that combines untrusted input with autonomous sending.", "SOC 2 Type 2 audited per the trust page, with a security@corp.town.com reporting address.", "Free plan at $0 with no credit card, and a dated subprocessor list naming model providers." ], "weaknesses": [ "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.", "The trust page says Town never sends without the owner's OK, while the docs describe autonomous routines and an Allow all actions session mode.", "A webhook call returns only 202, so the caller can't read what the routine did.", "No status page, published webhook rate limit or SLA found." ], "agentNotes": [ "Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.", "Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.", "Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.", "Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.", "Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 33, "security": 79, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/town" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Town Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "Billed monthly, 1,250 credits. Checked 14 October 2026." }, { "item": "Town Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "Billed annually, 5,000 credits. Monthly billing costs more." }, { "item": "Town Power", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "Billed annually, 12,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Power Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "40,000 credits." }, { "item": "Town Team", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 59, "note": "6,000 credits a seat, pooled." }, { "item": "Town Pro overage", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.044, "note": "Per credit past the plan allotment." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Town.com, Inc.", "domain": "town.com", "domainRegistered": "1996-11-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.town.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.town.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.town.com/updates", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "town.com's robots.txt gives ClaudeBot an allow list of named pages and disallows everything else, so only listed pages were read. security.txt and llms.txt are not on the list and were not requested.", "The terms name Town.com, Inc. and were updated on 21 July 2026. Legal contact legal@corp.town.com, support support@corp.town.com.", "No status page was found on the pages read.", "Webhook URLs are created per routine on Town's own service; their host is not shown in the docs.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 1996-11-13 for town.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "OpenClaw Foundation", "b": "Town.com, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-12", "b": "2026-10-10", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "392k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, OpenClaw or Town?" }, { "answer": "OpenClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Town.", "question": "Are OpenClaw and Town open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 33", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 49", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 60", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 63" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 74" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them" ], "goodFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.", "slug": "town", "watchFor": "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Proactive personal assistants" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "asaply vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.json", "title": "asaply vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Asmi vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.json", "title": "Asmi vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Boba vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.json", "title": "Boba vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Brea vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.json", "title": "Brea vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Del vs OpenClaw", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.json", "title": "Orchid vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.json", "title": "szn vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Tab vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Town vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia" }, { "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/astrbot-vs-town.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Boski vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.json", "title": "Boski vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.json", "title": "Caddy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town" }, { "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/cowagent-vs-town.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "folk vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.json", "title": "folk vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town" }, { "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/gaia-vs-town.json", "title": "GAIA vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town" }, { "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/gemini-spark-vs-town.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town" }, { "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/haven-vs-town.json", "title": "Haven vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town" }, { "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/hermes-agent-vs-town.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town" }, { "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/instinct-vs-town.json", "title": "Instinct vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town" }, { "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/ironclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Leon vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.json", "title": "Leon vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.json", "title": "Lindy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "nanobot vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.json", "title": "nanobot vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Dots vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.json", "title": "Dots vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-picoclaw" }, { "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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.json", "title": "Poke vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.json", "title": "QwenPaw vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Town vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Town vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-pally.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-wajo.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.json", "title": "Pally vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.json", "title": "Tomo vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Town vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.json", "title": "Talorys vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 40, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "openclaw": 75, "town": 35, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 51, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "openclaw": 84, "town": 33, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 28, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "openclaw": 77, "town": 49, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "town", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "openclaw": 74, "town": 79, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "openclaw": 60, "town": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "openclaw": 86, "town": 60, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "openclaw", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openclaw": 68, "town": 63, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do proactive personal assistants.", "verdicts": { "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.", "town": "Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do proactive personal assistants.\n\n- OpenClaw: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #270 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json\n- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 33\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 49\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 63\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### Town (D)\n\nGood for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 74\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them\n\nWatch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenClaw | Town | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 35 | OpenClaw +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 33 | OpenClaw +51 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 49 | OpenClaw +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 79 | Town +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | OpenClaw +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 60 | OpenClaw +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 63 | OpenClaw +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.1 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenClaw | Town |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |\n| Vendor | OpenClaw Foundation | Town.com, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-10 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 392k stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Town\n\n1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.\n2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.\n3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.\n4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.\n5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, OpenClaw or Town?\n\nOpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Are OpenClaw and Town open source?\n\nOpenClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Town.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"openclaw\", \"b\": \"town\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare openclaw town`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n\n## Other comparisons with OpenClaw or Town\n\n- [asaply vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [asaply vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.md)\n- [Asmi vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Asmi vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.md)\n- [Boba vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md)\n- [Brea vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md)\n- [Del vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Del vs 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OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [folk vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.md)\n- [GAIA vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [GAIA vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Haven vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Haven vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.md)\n- [IronClaw vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Leon vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Leon vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.md)\n- [Lindy vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md)\n- [nanobot vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [nanobot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Dots vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Dots vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Poke vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Town vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-pally.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Pally vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.md)\n- [Tomo vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Town competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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