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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

OpenClaw vs Wajo (Fo)

OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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OpenClawOpenClaw Foundation · Agent harness B67.1/100#270 of 993 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#907 of 993

Which one, for what

OpenClaw B

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 74
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 68
  • Security & auth, 74 against 38
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 86 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 47

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenClawWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%207530OpenClaw +45
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28474OpenClaw +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.27768OpenClaw +9
Security & auth14%17.57438OpenClaw +36
Payments & pricing10%12.56030OpenClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8863OpenClaw +83
Transparency & trust7%8.86847OpenClaw +21
Negative events≤15-80
TotalB 67.1/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenClawWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorOpenClaw FoundationWajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-12none
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity392k starsnone

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.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

OpenClaw

  1. Set a session permission mode of guarded or workspace, or tools.exec.mode, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval
  2. Turn on agents.defaults.sandbox for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default
  3. Set tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders and allowWithinProvider to false to confine sends to the current conversation
  4. 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
  5. Run openclaw security audit after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. POST /tools/invoke accepts it with full operator access

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenClaw or Wajo (Fo)?

OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category.

Are OpenClaw and Wajo (Fo) open source?

OpenClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Wajo (Fo).

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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.

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