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OpenClaw
ActiveCore OpenClaw gateway — personal AI assistant connecting to 50+ messaging platforms. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way.
Track and compare 80+ OpenClaw AI gateway implementations
Track every fork, rewrite, and derivative of the OpenClaw AI gateway — from official org repos to community rewrites in Rust, Go, and Zig. Updated continuously as the ecosystem evolves.
The most prominent variants in the ecosystem, sorted by stars and activity.
View all →Core OpenClaw gateway — personal AI assistant connecting to 50+ messaging platforms. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way.
NVIDIA's official enterprise OpenClaw distribution with OpenShell governance runtime, policy-based YAML sandboxing, and Nemotron model support.
Full Rust reimplementation of OpenClaw — 3.4 MB binary, <5 MB RAM, boots in <10ms (400x faster), 22+ providers.
Ultra-lightweight Go OpenClaw for $10 hardware — <10 MB RAM, single binary, boots in <1s on 0.6 GHz single-core.
Security-focused OpenClaw alternative running agents in isolated Linux containers — ~700 lines of code, 21.5K stars.
Zig-based AI assistant — 678 KB binary, ~1 MB RAM, boots in <8ms. No garbage collector, zero runtime.
The OpenClaw ecosystem organized by purpose and approach.
OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant gateway created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger. Launched as Clawdbot in November 2025, it reached 371,072+ stars and 76,741+ forks in just months — making it one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in history.
It runs as a local Node.js gateway connecting to 50+ messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, WeChat, Matrix) with AI models of your choice. In February 2026 it was transferred to the OpenClaw Foundation.
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