KelosvsOpenClaw
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Kelos
Kelos · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.82 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 7.0
- Cost
- 7.0
- Longevity
- 6.2
“Agents can be spawned from a cron entry, so your codebase now changes on a schedule whether or not anybody asked.”
OpenClaw
OpenClaw Foundation · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.84 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 7.2
“Warelay, Clawdbot, Moltbot, OpenClaw: three renames in ten weeks, one of them courtesy of Anthropic's trademark lawyers.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Kelos | OpenClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | cloud, sandbox | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | YesEvery agent runs in an isolated Kubernetes Pod or Job rather than on a developer laptop. | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Cursor, custom agent images) | OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 335 | 391,182 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Kelos | OpenClaw | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 7.3 | OpenClaw — Pick OpenClaw if you want an always-on assistant on your own hardware that answers on Telegram; pick Hermes Agent if you want it to teach itself new skills. |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 6.5 | OpenClaw — Sandboxing is off by default, the docs call it not a perfect security boundary even when on, and bind mounts walk straight through it. |
| El Profesor | 7.3 | 7.0 | Kelos — Task status records the branches, commits, pull requests and token usage a run produced, which turns the outcome of an agent into a queryable field rather than a screenshot. |
| La Inversora | 6.3 | 6.3 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 6.8 | 5.3 | Kelos — Identity, roles and audit come from the cluster I already operate, which is the first time this quarter a tool answered the security questionnaire by not existing separately. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 8.8 | OpenClaw — MIT, an mcp.servers block with per-server toolFilter, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM and llama.cpp as first-class providers, and it serves MCP too; this one is mine. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.