Kortix vs
Both are open-source and self-hosted — but OpenClaw is built as a personal "Jarvis" on your own machine. Kortix is the team-grade platform for running AI agents across a business, with the control that requires.
The short version
No fence-sitting — here's exactly when each one is the right call.
you want a personal, always-on AI assistant on your own laptop or server, wired into your messaging apps for individual automation.
you want to run AI agents across a team or business — with the ability to manage many agents, control what each can access, and keep everything governed and reversible.
Side by side
An honest, like-for-like look. A green check marks the better fit for each row — even when that's OpenClaw.
What each is built for
OpenClaw is a genuine open-source phenomenon — it earned its huge following by giving individuals a private, always-on assistant that lives on their own hardware and connects to the messaging apps they already use. As a personal "Jarvis," it's excellent, and it shares Kortix's core values: open-source, self-hosted, your data stays yours.
Kortix takes those same values and builds for a different scale: a business running AI agents as part of how it operates. That shift — from one person's assistant to a team's shared, governed workforce — is where the two diverge.
Where Kortix is different
Built for a team, not just one person.
OpenClaw is designed around a single personal assistant. Kortix lets you run a whole fleet of agents — different ones for different jobs — managed together as part of how your business works.
Control that a business actually needs.
When AI is doing real work for a company, "it just runs on my laptop" isn't enough. Kortix lets you decide exactly what each agent can access, runs each task in its own sealed workspace so nothing collides, and keeps every change tracked and reversible — so a mistake is easy to undo and nothing happens silently.
Runs where a business runs.
OpenClaw typically lives on a personal machine or a single server. Kortix is built to run on your company cloud, private network, or on-premises — the environments a business needs for security and scale.
Same open-source freedom — without the DIY safety burden.
You keep everything you love about OpenClaw — open-source, self-hosted, no lock-in — but you don't have to hand-build the guardrails. Kortix brings the access controls, isolation, and change tracking already in place.
When to choose which
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